What is "spoofing" and how is it used by identity thieves?

What is "spoofing" and how is it used by identity thieves?

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Spoofing is when hackers will send you off a phishing type email and in that email it'll have links that will send you off to a spoofed type website. The hackers have actually copied the code off the website, they've literally re-created that website and uploaded it to an additional server that might have a web address that looks like it might be similar to that corporation's website address. All the links on that spoofed website all work but where you plug in the user name and password, that information in the code of the website has actually been changed and allows the hacker the ability to receive that data once you've hit send and receive.