Email Spoofing

A landlord received rental applications from a couple with unusual inconsistencies, including a job listed at a local hardware store but with a Home Depot offer letter from a distant location, and both applicants' emails ending up in the spam folder with a malformed 'gmail.-com' suffix. The landlord is cautious but has not yet met the applicants, who have paid the application fee and provided employment and income documentation.

A user reported receiving phishing emails, including one spoofed from their own email address, and noticed random unsent emails in their sent folder despite no malicious login attempts and multiple password changes.

Scammers have discovered a loophole in Microsoft's internal systems that allows them to send spam and phishing emails using legitimate Microsoft email addresses normally reserved for account alerts. This vulnerability enables fraudulent actors to impersonate Microsoft and deceive users into clicking malicious links.