Most of today's SPAM comes in with a variety of hooks, the most dangerous being those looking to steal data and account credentials. Because criminals know that the weakest link is the human, it should be no surprise that SPAM continues to be one of the biggest issues facing many enterprises.

Nearly all abusive e-mail messages carry fake sender addresses. The victims whose addresses are being abused often suffer from the consequences because their reputation gets diminished and they have to disclaim liability for the abuse, or they waste their time sorting out misdirected bounce messages. Worse, a financial loss can be devastating to an organization should its domain end up on a black list because of SPAM runs done via a successful phish of a user account or the discovery of an open relay.

You probably have experienced one kind of abuse or another of your e-mail address in the past — e.g., an error message saying a message allegedly sent by you could not be delivered to the recipient, although you never sent a message to that address. SPF sets out to solve this problem and significantly mitigate SPAM.

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