Email Verification

So you’ve cracked that phpBB2 or phpBB3 captcha registered an account, and now it wants you to verify your account by email. Foiled again.

Actually this is pretty easy to get around. All you need is a free email service that supports webmail, and a page scraping utility. Hmmmm… Guess what, my page scraping code will work excellently with webmail services. What’s really handy is as long as you point the cookies string to a proper empty file it will keep the session details allowing you to log on as if you were using a normal web browser. So then you would just use preg_match to find important parts of the page (like login buttons, inbox, and so on), follow these links, until you find the link that says “Confirm your email address” or similar.

Or you could use temporary email…

$output = scrape_page(”http://www.mytrashmail.com/myTrashMail_inbox.aspx?email=” . $temp_email_name);

That’ll dump the html of your temporary inbox. You can even delete the email promptly to save them space.

If you’re really good you can download a POP3 PHP class and log into GoogleMail directly ;)

One Response to “Email Verification”

  1. Placement Papers Says:

    Your tis really Rocks. I enjoy these techniques :)

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