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Chapter 65

Test: check email for hacking resistance

In this chapter we will mainly talk about e-mail, but the proposed verification method can be applied to social network accounts and instant messengers as well.

Most users’ email is attached to various services and hacking email allows an attacker to access them. If you are serious about the security of your data and you are studying our course, most likely you will use this recommendation and hacking of your mail will not result in hacking email-related accounts. However, you should agree that it is not pleasant at all if someone gets access to the contents of your mail. Once the breaking of personal mail cost Hillary Clinton the post of President of the United States and Fly hacker was put behind bars.

Let's simulate a situation when your ill-wisher, for instance your business competitor, orders your mail hacking and you will order it yourself. This will be an excellent test of account protection, in other words an action in advance.

The first step is to find a hacker or a service that provides services for hacking email accounts. To do this, it is not necessary to go into the Deep Web, enter “hacking mail” in the search and you will be offered a lot of mail hacking services. Most of them work without prepayment, these are the services we need.

Some of them are scammers who set themselves the only goal to get money from you, they usually don’t even try to hack mail. They will ask for prepayment, they can politely thank and say goodbye.

But there are more tricky scammers. Some time after ordering, such a scammer will report that the victim's mail has been successfully hacked and to confirm it, through their program they will send you a letter from the hacked mailbox. But since the sending would go through the program, the letter would most likely get into spam. It is sure that after that the “hacker” will ask for money for the work. Remember, there is neither a program nor hacking mail, in this case a banal substitution of the address is used and such emails are immediately sent to spam.

There could be blackmailers who, having received an order, will start to blackmail you. The essence of their offer usually comes down to the following: either you pay money, or they transfer all the information about your order to the victim and / or law enforcement agencies. As you understand, in our case it is not a big deal.

Among the scammers and blackmailers there are real services that start checking your email inbox for resistance to various hacking methods. I do not want to describe the process in detail, as this will affect the effectiveness of the test. You yourself will have to unriddle the techniques used.

Choose to work several services involved in hacking mail and place an order. Services warn about the prohibition of simultaneous ordering several services, but in our situation it can be ignored. If the services on the basis of the work report the futility of attempts to hack your mail, it means that your detractor, ordering them, will get the similar result.

If you are afraid of giving your mail, get a separate email, configure its security as you would for your main one and set hackers on it. If the hacker does the job, be sure to pay them, this will be a valuable lesson for you and a reason to review the security of your email.

 

Tip

Order hackers to hack your mail.
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