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The Design and Development of an Undercover Multipurpose Anti- Spoofing Kit (UnMask) Sudhir Aggarwal, Jasbinder Bali, Zhenhai Duan, Leo Kermes, Wayne Liu, Shahank Sahai, and Zhenghui Zhu Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 {sudhir, bali, duan, kermes, liu, sahai, zzhu}@ Abstract enable investigators to reduce the time and effort This paper describes the design and development of a needed for digital forensic investigations of phishing software system to support law enforcement in e-crimes and can also be used for forensic investigating and prosecuting email based crimes. It investigations of other crimes that use emails as a focuses on phishing scams which use emails to trick vector, such as threats and harassment. users into revealing personal data. The system Investigating incidents of phishing and the related described in this paper, called the Undercover problem of identity theft tend to be labor-intensive Multipurpose Anti-Spoofing Kit (UnMask), will enable tasks that produce lots of dead-ends and few tangible investigators to reduce the time and effort needed for results [2, 3, 4]. Automated methods of following digital forensic investigations of email-based crimes. leads would reduce the effort, training, and resources A novel aspect of UnMask is its use of a database to dedicated to the investigation of such email crimes. not