Exposing Spoofed Email Addresses

Many emails sent from hackers and criminals pretend to come from someone or something you trust. It is very powerful to be able to look at the sender's email to validate if it was sent from the account you'd expect it to come from. In this course you will learn about email addresses, how to inspect them and discount emails that are obviously pretending to be a trusted sender.

What You Will Learn:

• Inspect the sender's email address of a received email
• Describe the portions of an email address
• Use the domain of an email address to determine if the email is likely to be external