The Cheap Way to Keep Spoofed Email Out of Your Inbox

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    Email spoofing is on the rise. Country IP Blocks estimates that spoofing may account for more than 80% of all spam and malicious email traffic. Email spoofing is defined as the forgery of an email header so that the message has the appearance of originating from a source other than the actual source.

    When not using expensive security certificates to prevent spoofing, you can still eliminate spoofing of known email addresses, such as those on a company whitelist with a highly effective, yet relatively simple filtering technique.

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