The scammers have copied Ellen’s email address and are now bombarding her customers with fake payment emails – what is “spoofing” and what can you do about it?

Listener Ellen’s email address has been forged by scammers, as a result her customers and the environment receive strange emails in her name. “The e-mails claim that the recipient still owes me money, but I didn’t send it at all,” he says in the podcast “The Hour of Truth” on Radio 1. “It’s probably spoofing,” explains Jeroen. Baert, computer scientist and science communicator. “Criminals copy your email address or mobile number and try to defraud others with it.”