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Show me everything on Email and Messaging Threats (spam, phishing, instant messaging)

- Also see anonymous e-mail and remailer.

Cloaking is the masking of the sender's name and address in an e-mail note or distribution. An individual or company that sends spam or, as they prefer to call it, "bulk e-mail" usually conceals their own e-mail address for various reasons, including the possibility that someone will swamp the originator's own e-mail server with retributional spam.

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13 Feb 2009

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