We have all been exposed to spam mail, but in general, spam mail is not even that dangerous as it can easily be recognized and most people do not even notice it anymore. It is like blank spaces in their inbox. It is going to the dump and that is that. However, there is a much more malevolent tendency today and it involves email spoofing. This practice entails masking an email containing threats as an email coming from trusted contacts. This is actually easy to achieve and a lot of people have already had experience with this. In order to prevent this from happening to you, we have come up with this article which will help you recognize when emails coming from your trusted sources might have been spoofed and when they are likely containing threats to the safety of your computer.
One of the basic measures of precaution would be never to open emails coming from unknown senders. Unfortunately, this very sound practice cannot be applied to spoofed emails as they will appear to have been sent by people you trust and who are your actual contacts.
You should be very careful when emails come from sources that “might” be legitimate. For instance, if you are waiting for a delivery and an email comes from a carrier service. This may be due to pure coincidence or due to lack of security when it comes to ordering stuff online.
If you receive an email from seemingly trusted companies asking you to change your password as it might have been compromised. This is one of the favorite 
ways to get to people and these links that come in such emails are usually very harmful and should be avoided. Furthermore, if the emails you have received contain no subject or if the only content is a single link, you should proceed with extreme caution and make sure that these are actually emails from trusted sources before you click on any links.
These are just some of the ways in which you could recognize emails that might contain harmful content and in general, you should keep up with the latest developments in the fields of email security in order to stay secure when using email services.
