Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai

2010

Phishing scams could be

 Emails inviting you to join a Social Group, asking you to Login using your Username and Password.

 Email saying that Your Bank Account is locked and Sign in to Your Account to Unlock IT.

 Emails containing some Information of your Interest and asking you to Login to Your Account.

 Any Email carrying a Link to Click and asking you to Login.

Prevention against Phishing

 Read all the Email Carefully and the Sender is Original

 Watch the Link Carefully before Clicking

 Always check the URL in the Browser before Signing IN to your Account

 Always Login to Your Accounts after opening the Trusted Websites, not by Clicking in any other Website or Email.

Email Tracing

 Tracing an Email means locating the Original Sender and Getting to know the IP address of the network fromwhich the Email was actually generated.

 To get the information about the sender of the Email we first must know the structure of the Email.

 As we all know the travelling of the Email. Each message has exactly one header, which is structured into fields.Each field has a name and a value. Header of the Email contains all the valuable information about the path andthe original sender of the Email.

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