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Pattikankam Rajeshwar K
EMail Hacking :-
All email communications on the internet are possible by two protocols:
1) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP port-25)
2) Post Office Protocol (POP port-110)
E-Mail hacking consists of various techniques as discussed below.
1) EMail Tracing :- Generally, the path taken by an email while travelling from sender to receiver can be explained by following diagram.
Mail-Path
The most effective and easiest way to trace an email is to analyze it's email headers. This can be done by just viewing the full header of received email. A typical email header looks something like this:
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From Barr Thu Jan 3 05:33:26 2008 X-Apparently-To: prasannasherekar@yahoo.co.in via 203.104.16.34; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:25:38 +0530 X-YahooFilteredBulk: 189.160.34.89 X-Originating-IP: [189.160.34.89] Return-Path:
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From Barr Thu Jan 3 05:33:26 2008
X-Apparently-To: prasannasherekar@yahoo.co.in via 203.104.16.34; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:25:38 +0530
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 189.160.34.89
X-Originating-IP: [189.160.34.89]
Return-Path:
Authentication-Results: mta113.mail.in.yahoo.com from=destatis.de; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 189.160.34.89 (HELO dsl-189-160-34-89.prod-infinitum.com.mx) (189.160.34.89) by mta113.mail.in.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:25:38 +0530
Received: from dvapa ([141.203.33.92]) by dsl-189-160-34-89.prod-infinitum.com.mx with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:03:26 -0600
Message-ID: <477c264e.3000604@destatis.de>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:03:26 -0600
From: "Barr"
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: prasannasherekar@yahoo.co.in
Subject: angel rubberneck
Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="------------030604060204000701040304"
Content-Length: 16433
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The above email header gives us the following information about it's origin and path:
a) Sender's email address :- atiles@destatis.de
b) Source IP address :- 141.203.33.92
c) Source mail server :- dsl-189-160-34-89.prod-infinitum.com.mx
d) Email client :- Thunderbird 2.0.0.6
Tips There are lots of ready-made tools available on the internet which performs email tracing very effectively and shows exact geographical location for email sender on the world map.
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