A Trade-off to Counter Email Impersonation Attack on the Rise
Email Identity Theft & Misrepresentation
It begins with me trying to create an Outlook email with my name, but someone else is already using it with a different phone number that I never used. The situation is anybody can misrepresent me, miscommunicate me using my credentials. As a digital marketer, writer, and journalist, there must be some verification process in place that ensures I am not misrepresented. This is not a vanity ask, but as we grow up to a seven billion+ population on the Internet, this is elementary.
Email impersonation attack is not only a concern for people in media or public figures; it is, even more, a challenge for a non-public person. It can damage a person completely, destroy relationships, destroy market reputation, impact businesses and employment. This is s...