INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

(Autonomous)
Dundigal, Hyderabad - 500 043

Innovation / Prototype
1. Student Details

Name of the Student Roll Number Branch Mobile Number

S.Sakthi Priyan 20951A6241 CSE(CS) 7673985444

N.Sarat Chandra 20951A6244 CSE(CS) 7337373131

2. Title of the Innovation or Prototype

WEBSITE TO PREVENT EMAIL SPOOFING

3. Define the problem and its relevance to today's market / society / industry need

Email spoofing is one of the most common forms of cybercriminal activity, specifically
a form of identity deception that's widely used in phishing and spam attacks.
There are many types of email spoofing in which “Spoofing Using Lookalike Domains”
is one.
So, we are going to create a website that will help us prevent this type of email
spoofing.
Email spoofing is a technique used in spam and phishing attacks to trick users into
thinking a message came from a person or entity they either know or can trust.
In spoofing attacks, the sender forges email headers so that client software displays
the fraudulent sender address, which most users take at face value. Unless they
inspect the header more closely, users see the forged sender in a message. If it’s a
name they recognize, they’re more likely to trust it. So, they’ll click malicious links,
open malware attachments, send sensitive data and even wire corporate funds.

In cases where a domain is protected by email authentication and domain spoofing is

not possible, attackers try to deceive the recipient by registering and using domains
that are similar to the impersonated domain. These types of attacks, known as
lookalike domain attacks, often use homoglyphs or characters that appear similar to
the original characters in the impersonated domain. 

4. Describe the Solution / Proposed / Developed

We are going to create a website in which users can check if an email id is legitimate
or not.
If a user feels suspicious about the email he received, he/she can use our website to
check if it’s legitimate or not.
In our website database we store all the legitimate mail ids of various companies,
organizations, banks etc…
Our website helps to reduce look alike domain spoofing attacks.

5. Explain the uniqueness and distinctive features of the (product / process /

service) solution

There is no separate website or source to check if an email-ID is legitimate or not.

The user has to go to the official website to check it. Hence our website is unique.

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