3169. The practice of forging a return address on an e‐mail so that the recipient is fooled into revealing private information is termed?

hacking
cracking
dumpster diving
spoofing
✅ The correct answer is D.
The practice of forging a return address on an e‐mail so that the recipient is fooled into revealing private information is termed as spoofing. A spoofing attack is a situation in which a person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data, to gain an illegitimate advantage.

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