How spoofing the sender email address works

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Nicholas Holt

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Sep 8, 2025, 1:42:33 PMSep 8
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I was a recipient of just this scam a couple of weeks or so ago (some may remember the email I received) and it’s interesting and probably helpful to understand how scammers can show a legitimate email address in the From box.
This partial explanation is from the Malwarebytes website.

A highly sophisticated email scam is targeting PayPal users with the subject line of “Set up your account profile.” 

We decided to see what the scammers are after. First thing to do is to look at the headers:

email header looks legitimate.webp
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