Email spoofing

Email spoofing involves masquerading as someone else in an email. The most common method of spoofing has the same sender's name, but masks the ID. In other words, the sender ID is forged. Email spoofing is possible when there are no valid methods for authenticating the sender's ID. A simple mail transfer protocol email consists of the following details:

Mail From:
Receipt to:
Sender's ID:

The following screenshot shows an email from PayPal for updating an account:

Bogus offers

There are also emails that try to sell us different commodities. They often include offers that seem too good to be true.

These offers could include items available before their actual release dates, such as the iPhone X...