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Your officially a hax0r....
....sort of. This really isn't hacking it's just an alternative method for sending emails. Although this system of forging is used ALOT by scammers and spammers.
For example what if someone rigged up a batch file to enter the commands by automation, someone could send thousands of emails to one person to bomb there inbox (this is ILLEGAL by the way) or use the batch file to send the same message to who knows how many people, thus bulk spam mail (also ILLEGAL and will most likely get you banned from the server and your ISP notified). And also, dont be tempted to do anything illegal while being on an SMTP server, your IP is logged when your on there and once the authorities have your IP address they'll have your home address and phone number before you log off your PC.
This is also unfortunately why you will find a lack of SMTP servers that don't require authentication to send emails. I'd say about 95% of the servers you will encounter randomly REQUIRE you to be authenticated to send email (authenticated by means of your IP address or logging in to the server).
Scammers use SMTP servers to scam people by phishing schemes.
This is a hypothetical (but occurs often) thought do NOT do this, I am simply explaining how scammers do what they do
"What" if someone carefully coded an HTML web-page that looked exactly like a reputable banking website and sent it to a well known user asking for there credit card information to "confirm" there accounts. The user would receive the email being suspicious (as anyone would) of sending there credit card information to someone, but wait, they suddenly decide its ok to do so because the email looks authentic and it is from administrator@ReputableBankingSite.com.
Look at it like this, if the person had received emails from "administrator@ReputableBankingSite.com" before (when they were actually from the administrator) how could this be any different? The email doesn't have any odd looking characters in it to look fake or like it was from someone else.
They simply forged it by SMTP. And if you were wondering about coding some kind of website language through SMTP,yes, it is very possible. Well it's possible for HTML at least, simply just put "Content-Type: text/html" after the "Subject:" line in the "data" part of the message.
Well thats all for now.
Have any comments?Questions? Did I miss something that should be put in this instructable? Please comment or send an email to drastik2912@yahoo.com
....sort of. This really isn't hacking it's just an alternative method for sending emails. Although this system of forging is used ALOT by scammers and spammers.
For example what if someone rigged up a batch file to enter the commands by automation, someone could send thousands of emails to one person to bomb there inbox (this is ILLEGAL by the way) or use the batch file to send the same message to who knows how many people, thus bulk spam mail (also ILLEGAL and will most likely get you banned from the server and your ISP notified). And also, dont be tempted to do anything illegal while being on an SMTP server, your IP is logged when your on there and once the authorities have your IP address they'll have your home address and phone number before you log off your PC.
This is also unfortunately why you will find a lack of SMTP servers that don't require authentication to send emails. I'd say about 95% of the servers you will encounter randomly REQUIRE you to be authenticated to send email (authenticated by means of your IP address or logging in to the server).
Scammers use SMTP servers to scam people by phishing schemes.
This is a hypothetical (but occurs often) thought do NOT do this, I am simply explaining how scammers do what they do
"What" if someone carefully coded an HTML web-page that looked exactly like a reputable banking website and sent it to a well known user asking for there credit card information to "confirm" there accounts. The user would receive the email being suspicious (as anyone would) of sending there credit card information to someone, but wait, they suddenly decide its ok to do so because the email looks authentic and it is from administrator@ReputableBankingSite.com.
Look at it like this, if the person had received emails from "administrator@ReputableBankingSite.com" before (when they were actually from the administrator) how could this be any different? The email doesn't have any odd looking characters in it to look fake or like it was from someone else.
They simply forged it by SMTP. And if you were wondering about coding some kind of website language through SMTP,yes, it is very possible. Well it's possible for HTML at least, simply just put "Content-Type: text/html" after the "Subject:" line in the "data" part of the message.
Well thats all for now.
Have any comments?Questions? Did I miss something that should be put in this instructable? Please comment or send an email to drastik2912@yahoo.com
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Jul 12, 2007. 6:27 AMcprogrammer
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ISP have started using port 587 (Message Submission Port) and authenticated SMTP to log the actual user sending out the mail.
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