COMPUTER RELATED TOPICS.....
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| SPAMMING |
WHAT IS.....
EMAIL SPAMMING AND EMAIL SCAMMING
WHAT IS DIFFRENCE BETWEEN THESE TWO...........?
Email spamming -The concept of "Spam" is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message attempting to force the message on people who would not want to receive it or see it. Such attempts come under the category of " email spamming"
METHODS
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| EMAIL SPAMMING |
EMAIL HARVESTING- It is the process of obtaining email list of various people using various methods like "Directory Attack" .These bulk email addresses are used by spammers to fulfil their purposes DIRECTORY ATTACK - It refers to guessing email addresses that is valid email addresses .IT is like "send anonymous mail"
HARVESTING BOTS- Using these bots spammers are able to get the bulk email addresses of many people very easily.These gather email addresses from public data or other online resources
EMAIL SCAMMING- Obtaining money by means of deception including fake personalities,fake photographs,fake templates,letters ,non existence addresses and phone numbers through Internet using emails ...
SPOOFING.......?
WHAT IS IT.....?
Spoofing is basically a concept in which the spoffer pretends or acts to be a different someone......
Types.
Email Spoofing...?
Email Spoofing is basically a concept in which the email messages you receive are from a different origin than they are depicting to be....they are created solely for the purpose to fool you out.............
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| BRAND SPOOFING |
This can also take the form of brand spoofing in which the email you receive is wrapped such that it appears to be coming from a reputed website which may be a bank site asking to reset your password...or other well-known sites......
Spoof Calling.....?
What is It.......?
Call Spoofing or spoof calling is basically a concept in which the caller appears to be calling from a different number than he actually is....this is mostly called as phone number spoofing .......
spoofing phone numbers is not a new concept...it is rather difficult as their are legal penalties....on people today...according to act of Dec 22 ,2010 in US...it is a crime and the defaulter has to pay a large amount on each violation as it was earlier sites like star38.com offered people these service
Ways....?
Their are two ways....either from a telecoms number or a voip call forwarding method...earlier people did have easy access to free spoofing call service.....but not know .
Though their are some valid reasons for spoofing call but for certain large companies...itself
You can further "cyber laws"....regarding various things
