The special character of the spoofing attack is – that the “spoof action”, serves as a spearhead for most of the other mail attacks.
In other words – the Spoof mail attack is accompanied by an additional type of mail attacks such as Phishing mail attack or spam mail.
What is so special about Spoof mail attack? |Part 3#9
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