Explore Spoofed through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Spoofed meaning
- Parodied.
- Made to appear to have come from someone other than the real sender.
Using Spoofed
- The main meaning on this page is: Parodied. | Made to appear to have come from someone other than the real sender.
- In the example corpus, spoofed often appears in combinations such as: spoofed email, the spoofed, spoofed the.
Context around Spoofed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Spoofed
- In this selection, "spoofed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, erinle, easily, use, email, packets and address stand out and add context to how "spoofed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2023 a spoofed email led and and block spoofed numbers before. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "spoofed" sits close to words such as ablation, abure and abvp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with spoofed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Upon first glance, a spoofed email may look reliable. (9 words)
The popular electronic-signature collecting site DocuSign was the sixth most spoofed brand used by scammers. (16 words)
Adrian Abramovich of Miami was caught using spoofed robocalls to sell people timeshares and vacation packages. (16 words)
Though Ratcliffe focused on Iran’s efforts to send spoofed emails designed to intimidated voters in the U.S., officials maintain that Russia remains a more potent threat, using a range of efforts to undermine confidence in the democratic process. (40 words)
For example, in one spoofed landing page researchers observed weather notification banners that mimic a notification being used in the real login portal: “The awareness manifests in both the lure wording and/or landing page appearance,” researchers said. (38 words)
Justice Oshodi held that, as argued by the prosecution, Erinle, “spoofed the email address of the financial controller of J.E. Dunn, by faking the domain name of jedunn.com to jedunn. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
In general, the victim machine cannot distinguish between the spoofed packets and legitimate packets, so the victim responds to the spoofed packets as it normally would.
Justice Oshodi held that, as argued by the prosecution, Erinle, “spoofed the email address of the financial controller of J.E. Dunn, by faking the domain name of jedunn.com to jedunn.
Unfortunately, this means that even though you have blocked the original address, any emails sent from the spoofed address will still make it through to your inbox.
But Mitrovic also knew that phone numbers can be easily spoofed, so he continued to dig deeper.
In January 2023, a spoofed email led the union to transfer $6.4 million to a fraudulent account.
Millions more scam calls from abroad, which use spoofed UK landline numbers, are to be blocked under a new crackdown, it has been confirmed by the regulator today.
The popular electronic-signature collecting site DocuSign was the sixth most spoofed brand used by scammers.
Upon first glance, a spoofed email may look reliable.
Though Ratcliffe focused on Iran’s efforts to send spoofed emails designed to intimidated voters in the U.S., officials maintain that Russia remains a more potent threat, using a range of efforts to undermine confidence in the democratic process.
For example, in one spoofed landing page researchers observed weather notification banners that mimic a notification being used in the real login portal: “The awareness manifests in both the lure wording and/or landing page appearance,” researchers said.
He spoofed evangelicals with his lunatic preacher character, the Right Rev. Billy Sol Hargis, pastor of the First Church of the Gooey Death and Discount House of Worship.
In 2015, U.S. government officials that drones deployed along the U.S.-Mexico border were seeing their GPS systems spoofed, probably by drug cartels.
The message came from a “spoofed” email address — one that appeared legitimate but was, in fact, from outside the city’s internal email system.
This gives the attacker the opportunity to send packets with spoofed MAC addresses to the attacked machine and router.
Adrian Abramovich of Miami was caught using spoofed robocalls to sell people timeshares and vacation packages.
Dominick created a proof-of-concept attack that created a single certificate, shown below, that spoofed Google, Sennheiser, and three of Sennheiser’s competitors.
Email addresses can be spoofed to appear as though an email is from someone you know.
Police say the man spoofed her social media accounts and sent naked images of the woman to her friends and urged her to kill herself.
The attorneys general are seeking authority allowing service providers to use new technology to detect and block illegal spoofed calls.
The FCC, which regulates our phones, is now giving phone companies greater authority to intercept and block spoofed numbers before they reach us.
Common combinations with spoofed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: