What is Email ID Spoofing and How It is Done.

Note: Email ID spoofing or Sending Fake Emails are Totally illegal Act. This post is only for educational purpose, the author of this website will not be responsible for any misuse.

Email spoofing is the creation of email messages with a forged sender address - something which is simple to do because the core protocols do no authentication. Spam and phishing emails typically use such spoofing to mislead the recipient about the origin of the message.

It is the technique in which the attacker sends anonymous emails by using any email id. For example, if I am working in a corporate company and my email id is ak123@corporate.com. So what the attacker can do, he can use my email id and can send it to anybody just posting my name with it.

How it is done:

Step 1:

There is a website which is well known as Fake mailer http://emkei.cz/ and it is widely used for sending fake emails by attaching any email id with it. Open It.

Step 2:

Fill the following details as given in the above screen shot i.e,

From Name (Victim name), From Email (Victim, Email ID), To (Destination),Subject,Attachment,Content-Type, Text which you want to display and Last fill the captcha and Click on send.

Enjoy!!!!