Email spoofing is a tactic used in phishing(that we already discussed in the previous tutorial) and spam campaigns because people are more likely to open an email when they think it has been sent by a legitimate source. In simpler terms, caller ID spoofing allows you to display a different phone number than the actual number from which the call was placed.Įmail spoofing is the forgery of an email header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source. IP address spoofing or IP spoofing is the creation of Internet protocol (IP) packets with a false source IP address, for the purpose of hiding the identity of the sender or impersonating another computing system. One technique which a sender may use to maintain anonymity is to use a proxy server.Ĭaller ID spoofing is the act of altering the information forwarded to your caller ID in order to hide the true origin ID. The MAC address is hard-coded on a network interface controller (NIC) and cannot be changed. MAC spoofing is a technique for changing a factory-assigned Media Access Control (MAC) address of a network interface on a networked device. There are different types of Spoofing such as Mac Spoofing, IP Spoofing, Caller ID Spoofing, Email Spoofing etc. A spoofing attack is a situation in which one person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data, thereby gaining an illegitimate advantage.
