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Pretending to be someone trustworthy until your victim hands over the keys.
means Faking an identity — a caller ID, email address, website, or GPS signal — to deceive systems or people.
from From the 1880s card game Spoof, invented by British comedian Arthur Roberts as an exercise in bluff and nonsense; the word came to mean any clever hoax.
GPS tooSpoofed signals can steer ships and drones off course.
Caller IDThat local number calling you may be anywhere on Earth.
Email weaknessOriginal email design never verified the sender.
Cousin termPhishing often rides on spoofing to look legit.