Title: 1. Exploring the Role of E-mail in Investigations
Course: IN 2005 Digital Forensics > Section: Module 12: Chapter 12 -E-mail Investigations

Exploring the Role of E-mail in Investigations

1. With the increase in e-mail scams and fraud attempts with phishing or spoofing, investigators need to know how to examine and interpret the unique content of e-mail messages.
2. Phishing e-mails are in HTML format, which allows creating links to text on a Web page.  One of the most noteworthy e-mail scams was 419 or the Nigerian Scam.
3. Spoofing e-mail can be used to commit fraud.