Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai

2010

Email Spoofing

 Email spoofing is the forgery of an Email header so that the message appears to have originated from someone orsomewhere other than the actual source. Distributors of spam often use spoofing in an attempt to get recipientsto open, and possibly even respond to, their solicitations. Spoofing can be used legitimately.

 There are so many ways to send the Fake Emails even without knowing the password of the Email ID. The Internetis so vulnerable that you can use anybody's Email ID to send a threatening Email to any official personnel.

Methods to send fake Emails

Fake Emails: Open Relay Server

 An Open Mail Relay is an SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server configured in such a way that it allowsanyone on the Internet to send Email through it, not just or ‘Originating’ from known users.

 An Attacker can connect the Open Relay Server via Telnet server to send the Email.

 Open Relay Email Server requires no password to send

Fake Emails: via web script

 Web Programming languages such as PHP and ASP contain the mail sending functions which can be used to sendEmails by programming Fake headers i.e .” From: To: Subject:”

 There are so many websites the Internet which already contains these mail sending scripts. Most ofthem provide the free service.

 Some of Free Anonymous Email Websites are:

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Mail.Anonymizer.name (Send attachments as well)FakEmailer.netFakEmailer.infoDeadfake.comwww.hackingtech.co.tv/index/0-93

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