Email Spoofing

Chauhan Susil 201404100120001Desai Chaitanya 201404100120002

Pipaliya Shubham 201404100120014

Introduction

• In today’s growing world it is difficult to imagine life without e-mails. These are very quick and simple to use. Thus people choose to interact through emails.

• You can use emails for individual or business purposes, but these days, using emails also are not very secure. Email viruses and email spoofing are different form of threats to all the email users

What is Email Spoofing?

• Email spoofing is a trick that spammers and identify thieves use to baffle and deceive people. The concept is that if an email seems to originate from a recognized sender, the aim of the phishing mail will be more probable to fall for the deception.

Defensive tips against email spoofing

• Email security must remain a main concern for every business. Here are tips on protecting yourself against email spoofing:

Firstly check the salutationTake care of grammar mistakesMust check the links in emailClaiming that an email has come from reliable sourceForward spoofed emails to FTC

Firstly check the salutation

• A real email will address you by your name because you previously had a relationship with the sender. A spoofed email generally has a nonspecific salutation such as Dear Customer, because these messages are delivered in huge amount to a large pool of prospective victims.

Take care of grammar mistakes

• Just go through the text of the email to distinguish if it uses a high quality spelling and grammar . A lot of spoofed emails come from spammers in other countries who do not speak good English. This is willingly evident by misspellings and mistakes or unusual language use in the email.

Must check the links in email• Move your pointer over any

links in the email, right click it, and choose the “properties” option to notice where they actually go. Spammers spoof links by making the text appear justifiable whereas the definite link by goes to a forged website or unwanted software can download.

Claiming that an email has come from reliable source

• Spammers frequently claim you must reply by a definite date or your account may be suspended, or it will claim you made an order with a genuine company. They do this so you will react without thinking and give the information.

Forward spoofed emails to FTC

• Forward spoofed emails to the corporation named in the message and deliver a copy to the Federal Trade commission (FTC). The FTC manages a record of these messages that can be used by law enforcement to track scammers.

Citi Bank Spoofing case• Many E-mails are in circulation asking the receivers to update their

CITI Bank account information.• The mails are purported to be from Customer Service Department of

the Bank.• The mails also contain a link to CITI Bank website.• The fact

The link is fake.It comes with an extension … e.g.www.citibank.com/5%ac8%/login.aspThe link actually takes the person to a mirror of actual site.The information punched in there never goes to the Bank but to another computer and gets stored.Can be used by the person for operating the accounts.

Citi Bank Spoofing case

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