Are you getting spams? fast check for email address on online platforms

Email addresses, spammer loves these. Emails is the main source of authentication for most social media platforms. On daily basis, fake social media accounts are used by various cyber criminal. Now days, social media crimes are increasing, because of the Social media popularity. Many users uses bots or automation scripts to become popular in short period of time. According to ethical hacking researcher of International Institute of Cyber Security you can find list of many leaked email address on pastebin and underground links.

There are many cases on cyber bulling, stalking which shows that fake accounts are used. After the investigation, its normally found that fake accounts are the main reason for spreading rumors on any person or public figure to create an chaos among users. Most of the time Twitter becomes the main source for spreading fake news. Every news or chaos are found to be connected with any account. We will show you socialscan which is used to validate email addresses on social media accounts. Users can search by typing email addresses or using any bulk list of email addresses. Socialscan uses various social media platforms, api’s, svc-api’s. Below you can checkout the python script written by socialscan developer which clearly shows instagram, twitter, tumblr or emails, usernames are used to check the availability of email addresses.

• For testing we will use Kali Linux 2018.4 amd64.
• Before installing socialscan, make sure python3 is installed.
• Type open terminal, type sudo apt-get update and then type sudo apt-get install python3, then type sudo apt-get install python3-pip
• Type pip3 –version, If you found error while running pip3, Type sudo apt-get purge python3, then type sudo apt-get install python3-pip

• You can install Socialscan from github or from pip. For installing through github. Type git clone https://github.com/iojw/socialscan.git
• OR type pip3 install socialscan

• After then type python3 setyp.py install

• Type socialscan –help

• Type socialscan #######a######@gmail.com, for security purposes the email address is masked.
• socialscan will find accounts with given email addresses.

• Above shows listed of social media platforms that have accounts associated with this searched email address. Below in output social media accounts are mentioned in different colors.
• Socialscan uses two different colors to indicate the presence of email address on social media platform.

• In Yellow Color, it shows email address tested is used in creating accounts on different social media platforms.
• In Green Color, this email address is not used in creating accounts on these platforms.
• Let’s try some other email addresses. For testing, you can found different email addresses on pastr.io.
• Type socialscan ja#####ep#####ki@gmail.com
• As per ethical hacking researcher of International Institute of Cyber Security, socialscan checks the availability of email address by trying to create account or trying to use username suggestion functionality available on social media platforms.

• Above shows social media accounts which are connected with the given email addresses. Socialscan uses two different colors to indicate on which social media platform.

• In Yellow Color, it shows above email address is used in creating accounts on different social media platforms.
• In Green Color, this email address is not used in creating accounts on these platforms.

• In Social media crimes, Digital forensics investigator can use Socialscan for verifying the email addresses. Or if any user received some spamming emails from any email ID. User can check the social media behavior of that account by finding social media accounts using Socialscan.
• In some common email addresses, it might shows false positives but still according to its developer it provides 100% accuracy.
• While searching accounts on social media, we do found account with particular email address on social media platforms. For further verification, you can manually search for the email ID on social media logins. For verification we have used above first email ID for verifying on twitter.com For security reasons, we have masked the email id.

• Above shows that “we could not identify you by the email address. Please enter your username to first your account” which means that twitter does not have any account using above email. For security purposes, we have hidden the email id.

Scanning List of Email Addresses

• Type socialscan –platform instagram –input list2.txt
• –platform to write any particular platform. We have searched for Instagram.
• –input is used to enter list of email addresses.

• Above shows list of email addresses which are taken or they are available.