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With reports stating that up to 50 percent of our work day can be spent reading, writing and replying to e-mails, one wonders if work productivity is actually decreasing due to e-mail. It doesn’t help that so many e-mails are junk and spam. Or that studies have shown that workers who are overwhelmed by constant …

Spam and e-mail-laden viruses can take a lot of the fun and utility out of electronic communications, but at least you can trust e-mail that comes from people you know – except when you can’t. A favorite technique of spammers and other “bad guys” is to “spoof” their return e-mail addresses, making it look as if the mail came from someone else. In effect, this is a form of identity theft, as the sender pretends to be someone else in order to persuade the recipient to do something (from simply opening the message to sending money or revealing personal information). In this article, we look at how e-mail spoofing works and what can be done about it, examining such solutions as the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and Microsoft’s Sender ID, which is based on it. If you receive a snail mail letter, you look to the return address in the …