How can I trace where email came from?

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You need to work with the ISP. But I also suspect that the issues covered in this article might be the case: http://ask-leo.com/someones_sending_from_my_email_address_how_do_i_stop_them.html

Hi,

I need to know how i can see who was Bcc on an email I received...any ideas?

You don't. That's the whole point of BCC. This article has more: http://ask-leo.com/how_to_i_view_the_list_of_bcced_recipients_on_an_email_ive_received.html

i tried following the tutorial but it got too technical for me. there are many services that would trace the email for you -i've found infopursuit.com, sendertracer.com, and abika.com. i had to pay, but they did the job.

A coworker from Canada has a privately owned laptop and uses a Canadian Cable ISP. She claims to travel to the US quite often, conveniently when we are required to work weekends. She sent me a hotmail email and the IP address in the header belonged to her Canada based Cable ISP. Does having an IP belonging to a Canadian ISP in the header prove she was definitely in Canada, and not the US, when the email was sent? Or is it possible her laptop would have her Canada IP stored and she wouldn't get a new IP when she connected to the internet in the US?

"Prove" is a word I won't use, but it would seem to indicate that she was connected to her canadian ISP. Now the thing is, it could have been over a dial-up connection to her ISP from anywhere, including the US.

In Lori Hanken's case the email received from ip address 67.50.14.110 is from Hastings, Minnesota

rj,you'll have to enable the full/all/advance headers from the mail options of ur email ,only then u'll be able to see the full header information. like for instance,for a hotmail a/c go to the options page,and select 'mail display settings' ,in the message headers section select the full or advanced radio button. And then u may be able to trace where the emails are comming from using a paid software or sites like http://dnsstuff.com

Pl trace location of email sender ( location of pc which was used for sending mail not the IP address) Im giving details of mail's header information below:

[apparently someone else's information removed -Leo]

I cannot trace an IP address to a specific location or machine. You need to contact the ISP in question.

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