Email Spoofing

Email Spoofing

 

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 to send the Fake Emails even without knowing the password of the Email ID. The Internet 
is so vulnerable that you can use anybody's Email ID to send a threatening Email to any official personnel. 

Methods to send fake Emails 

1.Open Relay Server

2.Web Scripts

 Fake Emails: Open Relay Server

 An Open Mail 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 destined ‘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 Email Server requires no password to send the Email

 Fake Emails: via web script

 Web Programming languages such as PHP and ASP contain the mail sending functions which can be used to 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.