Q: I'm receiving spam to my alias that appears to be from another Institution address. Why is this?
A: This is likely to be caused by e-mail spoofing. This is a term used to describe fraudulent email activity in which the sender address and other parts of the email header are altered to appear as though the email originated from a different source. E-mail spoofing is a technique commonly used for spam e-mail and phishing to hide the origin of an email message. By changing certain properties of the e-mail, such as the From, Return-Path and Reply-To fields (which can be found in the message header), hackers can make the e-mail appear to be from someone other than the actual sender. It is often associated with web site spoofing which mimic an actual, well-known web site but are run by another party either with fraudulent or malicious intentions.
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