Investigating Identity Concealing and Email Tracing Techniques
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چکیده
At present it is very difficult to trace the identity of spammers who use identity concealment techniques. It is difficult to determine the identity of the spammer by just analysing the electronic trail. This paper will look at standard email tracing techniques and how email senders try and hide their electronic trail. The identity concealing techniques that that are discussed are: Spoofing, Bot-Networks, Open proxies, Open mail relays and untraceable Internet connections. The techniques used to trace spam that we discuss are: Header analysis and honeypot computers. The paper will also Investigate advanced digital forensics techniques for email tracing namely Investigating residual data on servers and investigating network devices.
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