Text/SMS Spoofs are sent by either e-mail or through a web site. The sender inputs your number and then inputs the number or name they want you to see on the caller ID. They then input their message and send. See Text/SMS Spoofing for more in depth data.

Phone Spoofs are sent through a phone or a combination of a web site and a phone. Typically either involves a third party company that acts as an intermediary. The sender initiates a call by either visiting the third party company's web site or calling their specified call in number. The sender then inputs the caller ID information they want displayed and they are connected. The third party company does all the work and charges by the minute. These third party companies will even change the sender's voice and record the call for the spoofer. See Caller ID Spoofing for more in depth data.

URL Spoofing - When the address (A.K.A., domain name or URL) displayed in the address 'location' bar at the top of a browser is not really the web page being displayed it has been spoofed. For example the user may see www.citibank.com in the address location bar but really be on the web page www.iamgoingtorobyou.com

Web Spoofing is when the spoofer puts a computer between the internet user's machine and the entire internet thereby intercepting everything the internet user does.

To accomplish this a spoofer must first somehow get an internet user to visit the spoofers 'trap' web page. The spoofer could get an internet surfer to the 'trap' web page through a variety of tricks and techniques including but not limited to:

• a link in a spam e-mail
• through a hyper-link on a non-trap web page
• even a link the internet surfer clicks on from a search engine.

Once the internet surfer visits the spoofers 'trap' web page every web page that the internet user visits thereafter is served from spoofers computer. The internet user sees the actual web pages that they are visiting but the spoofer is acting as a malicious intermediary ISP, spying on everything the internet user sees and types. This means that the spoofer can intercept all of the internet users ID's and passwords, credit card information, and anything else the web surfer types in to web pages they visit.

e-mail Spoofing is when a spoofer falsifies the information about whom an e-mail is from. Most spam (unsolicited e-mail) uses e-mail spoofing with the primary intent to trick the recipient into viewing the e-mail. A good example is the thousands of e-mail claiming to be from eBay that are really spam. The spammer usually does not spoof to hide their location. In fact the spammer will go to much greater lengths to hide their actual location using a variety of techniques- so that they can not be found. See e-mail Spoofing for more in depth data

IP Spoofing - (Internet Protocol Spoofing) - Data sent over the internet (such as an e-mail) is broken up and sent in small pieces of information called packets. These packets once received are reassembled by the recipient. Each packet contains information about who the packet is from and who the packet is to, among other data. Spoofers can falsify who the packet is from to trick the recipient. This type of spoofing is often used to gain access to machines which use IP authentication to verify identity. See IP Spoofing for more in depth data.