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if we knw the email addree(hotmail) can we find out the ip addressof the account and the actual computer tht has been used to create the account??? i really need to find out abt this as one of my friend has been threatened by someone!!! plz.. thank you!!!!!

Posted by: malaka at May 23, 2008 3:35 AM

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Nope. If you're being harassed, contact the authorities.

Leo


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Posted by: Leo at May 25, 2008 9:38 AM

Hi, i belive that this info is wrong, you can find out the ip, the ip can tell you the location of the computer. and if it is from a library you could check the time you got the mail and hope that the library can tell you who sat at the computer at that time. in some librarys (in swe) you have to tell those who work there your name before you sit down at a computer.

As I've said over and over and over again, unless you are the police with a court order an IP address will NOT tell you the physical location of a computer.

-Leo

Posted by: ch at July 25, 2008 1:01 PM

As I've said over and over and over again, unless you are the police with a court order an IP address will NOT tell you the physical location of a computer.
-Leo

There's actually a way to find the location of a computer based on Ip address, for free, without being an authority or acquiring a court order, getting at least where the computer is connecting to (which ISP and where in the world it is) by going to http://www.ip2location.com/free.asp and putting the IP address that you got from the email header (which should be viewed in full details).

Which ISP will get you maybe as close the city, and often only as close as the country. It will not tell you exactly where the computer is. You will not get an address, you will not get a name and you will not get a phone number.

Specifically, ip2location above is 15 miles wrong for my IP address. In a populated area that narrows my location down to one of a few hundred thousand households.

-Leo

Posted by: Ben Diaz at September 3, 2008 10:03 PM

I tried this. Said I was in Germantown, Maryland, -I'm in Illinois. But, it did get my provider right.

Posted by: JL at September 4, 2008 12:27 PM

I just found out that my husband was cheating. How can I find out if he has e-mail addresses that I don't know about (example, Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo, etc.)? For some reason I think this person and him are still in contact, but I need to prove it first. I really hope that you can help me. I just need to find somehow that I can search by whatever means to see if there's any e-mail addresses out these established with the same info.

Your question boils down to how do I find out someone's email address? The short answer is that you don't. If a person doesn't want their email address to be found, it's nearly impossible to determine if they have one, or what it might be.

IMO, your only real hope is if your husband is using a computer you have access to, in which case you could take it to someone who's good at computer forensics to see if he's left traces on it. Naturally this'd probably cost money.

-Leo

Posted by: steph at September 17, 2008 12:15 PM

I know what the IP address for my personal computer is. There seems to have been a hotmail account created in my name. Can I find out what computer it was created on? I want to know if it is connected to my personal computer.

No. Please read the article you just commented on.
- Leo
09-Dec-2008

Posted by: Steve at December 8, 2008 6:18 PM

FYI... IP addresses change all of the time. ISPs no longer honor static IP addresses to the general pop. The only thing that is truly static is your MAC address. Today your IP address could be one number, and tomorrow, it could be something totally different. Just FYI

Posted by: jawanzal at January 9, 2009 11:39 AM

Hey I was writing to find out about an add request I got and the emial address is
[email address removed]
I need to find out is this really a person or is it spam. I don't want to accept unless it is someone I know. Is there a way to find out if this is spam or not? thanks jen

Posted by: Jennifer Sturtevant at October 15, 2009 3:05 PM
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