How can I trace where email came from?

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You cannot tell by looking at an email you've recieved
whether or not it was BCCed to anyone else.

Leo

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I need to know in plain english if there is a way I can tell where(physical address or at least city) of an email

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Mary: in plain English: no.

Leo

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I trace spam emails to their ISP's by using these free tools. IPNetInfo and a program called Abuse. Abuse is a free application that scans the headers of emails and comes up with the ISP the mail was sent from. It then sends in a preconfigured complaint letter to the Abuse Dept. of that provider.I have gotten over 2000 IP addresses disconnected so far in my 2 year fight against these scumbags. So long as they continue to spam me I'll gladly let the ISP aware of it. here is the link for ABUSE Program...http://spam-abuse.sourceforge.net/about_us.php. IPnetInfo is easy to find. Google it. Get a Spam Filter as well. I use MailWasher Pro. Hope that helps.

Oops...I forgot this part. If I feel that ABUSE isn't showing ALL the info, I then use IPNetInfo to scan the IP addresses and weblinks in the headers. Not only does it find the info I need but it also confirms what ABUSE found.

This was all too complicated. I put reverse email trace in google and came back with a company called emailrevealer.com. They took care of my email trace.

I was wondering, I have the emailers Ip address and I want to trace it back further than the city. Can i trace to to the exact place somehow? thanks

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NO. Not unless you're the police with a court order.

Leo

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i have a question. Please help me out. If the sender just logs into his system and read the mail which he received and if he don't do any other transactions except reading his mails. Can he be traced?

hello I have had my mail address forged as the send and return path by a 419 scammer, I have rported them to hot mail and yahoo - they keep changing their address at the end of the letter, this means that I am flooded with non delivery messages and have been accused of spamming - Yahoo claim that they cannot do any thing but hotmail have blocked them each time, is there anything I can do? I am sure there is a lot of info in the return messages I tracked an IP to the USA - I am in France help!!!!

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