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Social engineering is an art of science that makes use of some
psychological tricks on users to get the information you want. Looks
very simple but it requires patience, approach towards the target,
should be quick to respond and many more… In this article we
will discuss some of the possibilities of social engineering to
crack email accounts and some ways to overcome such attacks.
I think many of the enthusiastic people who want to become hackers
have visited websites that contain many tutorials like "Hacking
Hotmail", "Hacking Yahoo!" etc… But actually
all these texts are useless and they trick on the users who want
to learn hacking. Let's see an article I saw before written by Risabhdara
for ASTALAVISTA.
Verfication Auto Bot
This method is probably the lamest, least known but also the most
sucessful method of hacking hotmail.
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By continuing on down this letter you agree that Hack_Attack69 will
not be held responsible for any misuse of information within these
pages. This letter is purely for educational use. If your intentions
are similar proceed but if not you will be held responsible for
your own mistakes.
Hello Hotmail users.There have been many attempts to hack hotmail.com.
Unfortunately all of them have failed, EXCEPT this one. I though
have found out a revolutionary way to hack hotmail. And might I
add it's as easy as ABC. After 8 months of research we have found
the broken link. VerificationAutoBot to be exact. VerificationAutoBot@hotmail.com
is a bot, an auto bot. You send it a letter and within a week it
will send you one back. The ULTIMATE hack for hotmail is as follows:
First send a letter to verificationautobot@hotmail.com, second within
the Subject heading place the word "Password" (not in
quotes but has to have a capital P) this way the automated bot recognizes
what you are after. Then in the text field place the name of the
person at hotmail that you want to hack (Do not put @hotmail.com
after their name). No capital letters are to be put in this place.
Then skip three (3) lines and place your own hotmail account information
such as: "My login:My password" (a semicolon makes it
easier for the bot to recognize). This way the bot can verify that
your account actually exists. And then supplies you with the password
for the person's account that you want it for. Here is an example:
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To: verificationautobot@hotmail.com
bcc:
cc:
Subject: Password
login of the person you want to hack
yourlogin:yourpassword
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This IS the only way to hack hotmail. Use it with care.
Thank You Hack_Attack69
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After reading the above article if you give that a try, you're caught.
You are just revealing your username and password for the person
at verificationautobot@hotmail.com. The above is a social engineering
trick played by the author of this article.
If you ever saw some article saying about the "Auto password
reminders" of Hotmail, they are all useless. The people at
Hotmail or Yahoo! are not fools to install such servers. Below are
some of the tricks you can do on users to get some info for password
cracking.
1) To know some information about an user, the best way
is to chat with that person.
# If the victim is a newbie mostly he will use the same username
as his password (Even I too when four years back did the same ;))
# If the age of the victim is between 15-30, above 90% users will
be using his/her lover or spouse's name as their password.
# Some others use their pet's name, their job title, their DOB,
their place of living etc.. as their password.
You can gain such information during chat time. Below is an example
of such tricks used by me during chat-time in an Indian room.
Me: hi
Victim: hi
Me: how r u?
Victim: fine. What abt u?
Me: Very fine J
Me: Where r u 4m?
Victim: I am from Hyderabad.
Me: I am also from Hyderabad.
Me: where in Hyderabad??
Victim: gr8
Victim: Somajiguda
Me: Today is my birthday
Victim: Oh! Many many happy returns of the day
Me: Tnx
Me: What is your DOB?
Victim: DOB???????????
Me: Date of Birth
Victim: 22/2/1979
Me: Oh god! My girl friend's B'day was also the same day.
Victim: I C
Me: Do you have any g friends?
Victim: ya. Neeta
Me: Ok.
Me: gtg now
Me: bye
From the above conversation we have sufficient information to crack
his email account. Let's see what information have we collected.
$ From his screen name we can know his email address
$ The victim said that he is from Somajiguda, Hyderabad. I know
the postal code of Somajiguda, it is 500082
$ Saying today is my birthday I got this date of birth
$ Also I got his girl friend's name
Afterwards I went to the homepage of the mail service he is using
and clicked "Forgot Password". In the next page it requested
to give the date of birth and his postal code. Fortunately the service
he is using doesn't ask any secret questions, it just shown up the
current password.
But this method may not work all the times. You have to quickly
gather the information you want.
2) The second and one of the best ways is to design a fake
login screen for the email account the victim is using. You can
find a lot of services on the net providing the CGI send mail accounts
for free. Using these scripts you can easily get the username and
password of the user directly to your email account when ever an
user logs in through those screens.
But for making him to logon through your screens you must use some
social engineering tricks and send an email to him.
3) Another way is to make the person, who is reading your
article about hacking hotmail, a victim. Just as I've mentioned
above, the trick played by Risabhdara.
There may be many other methods to reach your target. There are
the ones I know and I use and I've succeeded.
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