How To Send Fake Emails

Most of us are very curious to know a method to send anonymous emails to our friends for fun. But the question is, is it possible to send anonymous emails in spite of the advanced spam filtering technology adopted by email service provides like Gmail, Yahoo etc? The answer is YES, it is still possible to bypass their spam filters and send anonymous emails to your friends. For example, you can send an email to your friend with the following sender details.
From: Bill Gates <billg@microsoft.com>
The art of sending this kind emails is known as Email Spoofing. In my previous post on How to Send Fake Email I insisted on using your own SMTP server to send anonymous emails. This method used to work successfully in the past, but today it has a very low success rate since Gmail and Yahoo(all major email service providers) blocks the emails that are sent directly from a PC. In this post I have come up with a new way to send anonymous emails (spoofed emails) that has 100% success rate. If you have to successfully send an anonymous email or spoofed email, you should send it using a relay server.
 
What is a Relay Server?
In simple words, a relay server is an SMTP Server that is trusted by Google or Yahoo as an authorised sender of the email. So, when you send an email using a relay server, the email service providers like Yahoo and Gmail blindly accept the emails and deliver it to the inbox of the recipient. If the SMTP server is not authorised, Google and Yahoo will reject all the emails sent from this SMTP server. This is the reason for which using our own SMTP server to send emails fail.
 
So What’s Next?
Now all we have to do is, find a trusted SMTP server to Send Spoofed Emails. Usually all the emails that are sent from web hosting providers are trusted and authorised. So, you have to find a free web hosting provider that allows you to send emails. But, most of the free Web Hosts disable the Mail feature and do not allow the users to send emails. This is done just to avoid spamming. However all the paid hosting plans allow you to send any number of emails. Once you find a hosting service that allows to send emails from their servers, it’s just a cakewalk to send anonymous emails. All we have to do is just modify the email headers to insert the spoofed From address field into it.
I have created a PHP script that allows you to send emails from any name and email address of your choice. Here is a step-by-step procedure to setup your own Anonymous Email Sender Script
 
1. Goto X10 Hosting  and register a new account.
2. Download my Anonymous Email Sender Script (sendmail.rar).
3. Login to your FreeWebHostingArea Account and click on File Manager.
4. Upload the sendmail.php, pngimg.php and bg1.PNG files to the server.
5. Set permissions for sendmail.php, pngimg.php and bg1.PNG to 777.
6. Now type the following URLhttp://yoursite.x10hosting.com/sendmail.php
NOTE: yoursite must be substituted by the name of the subdomain that you have chosen during the registration process.
7. Use the script to send Anonymous Emails. Enjoy!!!
Tell me whether it worked or not. Please pass your comments…
WARNING: ALL THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS POST ARE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY MISUSE.

How To Send Fake Mail

So, you want to learn how to send your own fake mail? It’s extraordinarily easy to do, and requires no extra software installed on your PC at all. It can be done with Windows, Macintosh, Linux – any modern PC that has an internet connection will do it.

There are a just a few simple steps. First, you’ll need to decide on the FROM and the TO email addresses. If the FROM address that you’re choosing isn’t a real one, make sure that the domain name (the bit after the @ sign) is a real one. If it’s not a real one, it almost certainly won’t work.

For the purpose of this tutorial, we’ll be sending from bush@whitehouse.gov to dummy@anysite.com.
Second, you’ll need to find out the mail server that your recipient is using.

	Click Start, Run, enter “CMD”, then presss OK. In the window that comes up, type nslookup -q=MX anysite.com
	Go to Applications, Utilities, and choose Terminal. In the window that comes up, type nslookup -q=MX anysite.com
	Bring up your favourite shell, and type nslookup -q=MX anysite.com

There will be a lot of information on the screen – all you need to look for is a line that talks about a mail exchanger. If there are several, pick the one with the lowest “preference number”.

anysite.com        MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.anysite.com

Now, you’ll need to connect to this mail exchanger using telnet. This is the same for any PC, but Vista users may not have it installed by default – see this note about getting telnet on Vista before you continue. When you’re ready, type:

telnet mail.anysite.com 25

Press enter, and after a short pause, you should see a welcome message from the server.
Ok, so now you’re connected. You need to enter the following information – press ENTER at each new line. You won’t be able to press backspace to delete a mistake, so you’ll need to type everything correctly first time!

HELO whitehouse.gov

This tells the mail server that we are “whitehouse.gov”.

MAIL FROM:

This tells the server who is sending the mail.

RCPT TO:

This tells the server who to deliver the mail to. At this point, if the recipient doesn’t exist, you may see a warning message (but not always).

DATA

This tells the server that we’re ready to start writing our message. It should acknowledge, telling you to end your message with a full stop (period) on a single line. All we need to do now, is write our message and don’t forget that full stop at the end.

Hello dummy@anysite, I managed to send a fake mail all by myself!.

Dont forget that last dot. When you’ve done that, and pressed enter, simply enter QUIT and your mail should be delivered.

There’s a little bit more to it, of course. You’ll need to enter proper “headers” if you want the mail to look more believable. After doing the DATA command, I’d recommend pasting in the following “headers” to make sure it looks realistic when viewed in Outlook, Hotmail, etc.

Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:49:13 +0100 (BST)From: George W Bush To: Poor Sod Subject: Fake mail

Hello dummy@anysite, I managed to send a fake mail all by myself!.

And that’s all there is to it.