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I took out a couple of lines you don’t actually need.Īgain: configurations vary maybe this won’t work on every version of PHP on every server.

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Note: These are actual lines of code used as an example in the online manual for PHP’s mail() function. You can forge emails with five lines of very simple PHP code: Without getting into all the pros and cons of PHP, I will say that it is perfect for email purposes. If I can figure it out, how hard can it be? (Which is also why PHP is often accused of being insecure.) Hey, I built a whole website content management system in PHP. It’s fast, easy, and used by about 90% of the people (like me) who don’t know any more about programming than they were able to pick up through Google searches and by stealing snippets of code published on various public forums. PHPīecause I’m not very sophisticated about programming I use PHP when I need to code stuff for my personal websites. Still, this is the basic idea and it works in many systems.

This doesn’t work in every version of Unix, and whether it works at all depends on how your system is set up (whether it’s connected to Sendmail, etc.). Type in a subject line and the rest of your message, press Ctrl-D when you’re done, and off the message goes. That creates a message that says “ ” in the From field. If you have a computer that’s set up with mail services - or you can telnet or SSH to a computer that has mail services - you can forge a from address with one line. Note that Gmail is a suspicious of the source - that’s why it put a little red question mark next to the address. Here’s a message I sent to myself using President Trump’s address.

Craft your message and press the Send Now! Button.

Put whatever email address you want in the From: field.

Enter your recipient’s email address in the To: field.

Many of them are free, some cost a little money to send mail.

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Well, actually, it’s significantly easier to forge the address of a real person at a real company than it is to register a fake domain, or even to create a throwaway Gmail account.įind a website like deadfake, which describes itself as “a site that lets you send free fake emails to anyone you like.” Or. So the ease of faking emails from people is a major vulnerability.īut, you ask, why would I bother faking an email from “” when I could just register a fake lookalike domain (like ) and use that? Or create a Gmail account ( ) and give it a friendly name that looks like the CEO of a company? And email attacks (aka phishing) are how the majority (actually the vast majority) of cyberattacks begin. In my day job as the communications guy for ValiMail, I spend a lot of time explaining how easy it is to create fraudulent emails using an email address that doesn’t belong to you.Ī faked “from” address is, in fact, how the majority of email attacks happen.

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