EMAIL SPOOFING

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

        There are so many ways used to send fake emails even without knowing the password of the Email ID. The internet is so vulnerable that you can use any body’s Email ID to send a threatening Email to any official personnel.

METHODS TO SEND FAKE EMAILS

        Open Relay Server

        Web Scripts

FAKE EMAILS: OPEN RELAY SERVER

        An open relay is an SMTP(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server configured in such a way that it allows anyone on the Internet to send Email through it, not just mail destinated ‘To’ or ‘Originating’ from known users.

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

        Open Relay Server requires no password to send the Email.

FAKE EMAILS: VIA WEB SCRIPT

        Web programming language such as PHP and ASP contain the mail sending functions which can be send Emails by programming Fake headers i.e. “From:  To: subject”

          There are so many websites available on the Internet which already contains these mail sending scripts. Most of them provide the free service.