Email harvesting

hello everyone

in this post i will introduce you to an interesting topic called email harvesting.

Email harvesting is process to used for obtaining large number which can be used in bulk emailing or spamming .

 Methods of email harvesting 

  #.Obtaining email from web browser

  #.Form email lists

  #.By accessing same computer used by valid user 

  #.By hacking web sites

  #.Social engineering

  #.From white and yellow pages 

 Guidelines to prevent yourself from email harvesting

 #.By changing the email address.Changing @ to at and . to dot 

 #.Turning email address to an image

 #.Using java script obfuscation.in the source code seen by the harvesters,

      the email appears to be obfuscated.

 #.Using a spider trap. This is a part of a website built to combat email    

    harvesting spiders.

 #.Monitoring the mail server. This method can be implemented at the 

    recipient email server. It rejects all email addresses as invalid from any 

    sender specifying more than one invalid recipient address.

      Prompting users to enter a correct CAPTCHA before divulging the email 
    address.

Hope you understood email harvesting from the above lines .In my future posts i will teach you how to do email harvesting.

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