A spoofed website is typically made to look like a well known, branded site (like ebay.com or citibank.com) with a slightly different or confusing URL. A spoofed email looks like it came from eBay, PayPal or your Bank, but the link leads you to the fake website. It is used to deceive online shoppers into disclosing their credit card numbers, bank account information, Social Security numbers, passwords, and other sensitive information. Two NEW tools that can help you spot a spoofed website are: eBay Toolbar and SpoofStick.

A spoof is a comedy that is specifically designed to both mimic and make fun of a story from another genre. Scary Movie, for example, spoofs horror film conventions while Airplane spoofs disaster movie conventions.