Email Spoofing: In Today’s Era

Email spoofing has been there since many years making it one of the main choices of the attackers or spammers who wish to gain access to some private information of victims to misuse it or to get some kind of financial benefit. We all know that email spoofing is possible only because of the fact that the entire email system works on SMTP which doesn’t provide any mechanism to check authentication of the sender of the email. With the increasing research in the field of security many protocols have been designed to overcome the problem of spoofing of email address. In this paper, we try to find out whether email spoofing is still possible or not by the end of the year 2022.