SMS Spoofing by Social Engineering Toolkit (SET)


Go to your applications and search social engineering toolkit and hit enter or simply type the following command:

sudo setoolkit

Social Engineering Toolkit (SET):

Type 1 to select social-engineering attacks.

SMS Spoofing : Select SMS spoofing by typing 7 and hit enter.

Spoofed Text Message: Type 1 again to perform an SMS spoofing attack.

Crafting message: Type 1 to select an SMS  attack to a single phone number, and enter the phone number preceded by ‘+’ and country code. Then, select to one-time use SMS option.

Target’s Mob Number: Enter your target’s phone number and then enter the message you want to send.

Select intermediary: Select the intermediary for the spoofed SMS message from the given 4 options. Select the first option. It is the only one free, the rest 3 are paid but it is buggy and might not work. So select option 3 which is a paid one, enter your pincode and send the message.

And just like that, your spoofed message is sent.

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