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Comment from John Molloy on 2009-10-30

2009-10-31T02:08:41Z

My ex girlfriend installed a program on my computer(s) that allowed her to accessed my computer and every program on it. She also installed this program on the servers at my College. Every e-mail she sent had the ISP address of my computer or my school computer on her Hotmail messages so it looks like I sent the e-mails. The tech guys removed the programs but said they couldn't tell where the terminals were accessed from. Is there anything I can do to prove it wasn't me sending the messages except for the fact that for some of them, I was in a class of 20 and didn't leave?

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Comment from Del Hopkins on 2009-10-25

2009-10-25T22:37:44Z

Here's a quick online tool for tracing the source IP addresses from the email sender, along with subsequent mail stops:
http://www.myipaddress.mobi/TraceEmail.aspx

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Comment from Dawn on 2009-06-21

2009-06-21T16:11:28Z

A former boyfriend's new girlfriend has received a half a dozen nasty e-mails from a gmail account.. They determined it was an alias and he is trying to take me to court..accusing me of sending them. I suggested they start a formal investigation with the police and they are supposivly going to subpoena gmail for their records. I didn't do it, but is there anyway someone could cut and paste and IP address or make it look like it came from my home IP address. I was at worked all day, using another IP address which I will be happy to provide as well...I think I'm just paranoid that it can be traced back to me by someone very computer savvy.

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Comment from Pao on 2009-06-04

2009-06-05T01:03:31Z

Is it posible (without being Police) to trace ip when receiving a facebook message ?

No.

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Comment from Jose on 2009-06-01

2009-06-01T23:36:22Z

Can two emails sent by the same person, the same day but different hour have the same x-originating-ip?

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Comment from Sandy on 2009-05-15

2009-05-16T05:35:46Z

I have a sbcglobal.net account and received a yahoo.com e-mail. Is there a way of tracing the origination of this e-mail up to the actual computer used even if the computer may be from a work/school/public location

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Comment from Dave on 2009-04-25

2009-04-25T21:51:22Z

I actually just tested out this service to see exactly how accurate these "IP finders" can be. I'm not terribly impressed after a couple tries. By creating a bogus email address and sending my primary account an email or two, I used a few of the suggested services to "track" my IP address. While the service DID manage to narrow the sender location down to the Hudson Valley, NY, the suggested city of origin was about 20 miles away from my home. Every service I've tried has returned this same estimated location, and usually the same suggested city. However, the problem remains that these services claimed that I lived on the wrong side of the Hudson River. Bummer.

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Comment from Jim Downs on 2009-04-03

2009-04-03T21:30:44Z

To try this out, I traced the first "received" IP address to a Verizon account in the city where I know my friend lives. So far so good. But when the e-mail was sent to me, my friend was actually traveling and I thought had used his laptop through the internet service at the house where he was staying. Why would his original home IP address still show? Doesn't it show the IP address of the place where he connected, or does it always show the "base" address where the person signed up for his account?

It could be either, there's no way to really know. That's why IP tracing is so unreliable without help from the ISP (which they'll only give with a court order).

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Comment from Adrian on 2009-02-18

2009-02-18T19:44:20Z

Good post,
here is an web-based email tracer toolsL http://www.myiptest.com/staticpages/index.php/trace-email-sender

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Comment from Mickey on 2008-12-16

2008-12-17T00:26:00Z

A friend of mine says she is in Singapore and she has been emailing me with her .msn account. Is there any way to tell from the message header if she is truly in Singapore? The X-Originating-IP is 99.8.186.64 which is SBC internet service in San Francisco. Does this mean she is really in San Francisco? Thanks, Mickey

There's no way to know for certain. She could be using an ISP that routes through S.F., or something else could be at play.

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Comment from sara on 2008-08-29

2008-08-29T16:00:36Z

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!!!!

This happens all the time, and there's almost nothing you can do. This article has more: Someone's sending from my email address! How do I stop them?!

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Comment from Sriram on 2008-07-29

2008-07-29T07:21:50Z

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?

Maybe, but likely only by law enforcement / the police.
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Comment from Leo on 2008-07-14

2008-07-14T16:56:40Z

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

Leo

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Comment from Dan on 2008-07-13

2008-07-14T04:14:59Z

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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Comment from Vicky on 2008-07-11

2008-07-12T01:44:21Z

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.

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Comment from Rob Marson on 2008-07-03

2008-07-03T09:44:00Z

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.

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Comment from RobMarson on 2008-07-03

2008-07-03T09:38:55Z

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.

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Comment from Leo on 2008-06-19

2008-06-19T16:46:04Z

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Mary: in plain English: no.

Leo

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Comment from mary on 2008-06-18

2008-06-18T19:13:04Z

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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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2008-03-19

2008-03-19T22:20:02Z

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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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Comment from Sg on 2008-03-19

2008-03-19T14:28:44Z

How do you determine if an e-mail that you receive has been BCC'd to another person?

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2008-02-18

2008-02-18T17:55:22Z

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You were probably BCC'ed.

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Comment from barbara davis on 2008-02-16

2008-02-16T17:19:43Z

I am receiviing spamed email from another company but the email address in the to box is not mine. How do I get these when it's not my email?

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2008-01-03

2008-01-04T05:51:56Z

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IP addresses cannot be hijacked.

Email headers can be forged, however, to make it look like it came from your
email address. They can try to make it look like it came from your IP address,
but that kind of spoofing is detectible.

Leo

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Comment from Bill on 2008-01-01

2008-01-01T20:47:54Z

Can someone (that I sent an e-mail to) hijack my IP address and send e-mails to make it "appear" that it came from my computer location?

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-11-24

2007-11-24T22:05:54Z

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You got it from Hotmail. The sender could be anywhere on the planet, there's no
way to know.

Thanks,

Leo

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Comment from gerry newby on 2007-11-18

2007-11-19T06:12:54Z

the article was interesting, but didn't address the question, how to find who is sending scams spams and oopsy daisies!

So, we can't track down and drop a dime on 'em then how do i set up my computer/email to reject automatically, emails i don't want? without said emails ever getting to my inbox, or better still automatically send 'em back!!!

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-10-22

2007-10-22T17:58:38Z

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That's this article:
http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_view_full_headers_in_windows_live_hotmail.html
be sure to read the update therein.

Leo

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Comment from james on 2007-10-19

2007-10-19T23:11:34Z

how can i see the full headers in a hotmail new live account?,, i tried view source on e-mail but this is not giving they full header like i used to be able to see on my old hotmail account,,can you help me please?

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-08-22

2007-08-22T20:49:36Z

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http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_find_out_whos_at_a_particular_ip_address.html

Leo

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Comment from ERIK on 2007-08-22

2007-08-22T16:17:08Z

Hi. have managed to find an ip address from an email im curious about. have determined the geo location and did a reverse dns (?) lookup , so it hink i have the host server (?) can you track something further ? i.e- right back to the physical location of the computer ? (sorry, may seem like an idiotic question but im a relative newbie . am extremely interested though and advice on any good reading material would also be appreciated. thanks irrespective.

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-08-13

2007-08-13T15:46:26Z

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No.

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Comment from vicky on 2007-08-12

2007-08-13T01:54:42Z

is it possible to get a physical address from where an email came from?

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-08-04

2007-08-05T00:04:22Z

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You cannot.

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Comment from Gregg Parratto on 2007-08-02

2007-08-02T16:22:43Z

I am trying to trace the original message sender below the AOL source. Here is the original info: How can I trace the gmail IP?

Received: by 10.143.163.4 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:55:34 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:55:34 -0400
From: "Tim Duffy"
To: "Gregg Parratto"
Subject: Fwd: [Hamilton] Fwd: Talk is cheap, campaign promises cheaper. -- Please forward to all share holders
In-Reply-To:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_Part_65885_13716383.1186070134038"
References:

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Comment from Diane on 2007-07-12

2007-07-12T13:13:41Z

How can i find out who sent me this message as the i need to know if its legal or not. I need to contact the person who sent the mail - can you help..

Return-path:
Envelope-to: dianelouw@iburst.co.za
Delivery-date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:11:16 +0200
Received: from veronique.gransy.com ([87.236.199.200])
by mail-01.jhb.wbs.co.za with esmtp (Exim 4.63)
(envelope-from )
id 1I8tlV-0002XU-3q
for dianelouw@iburst.co.za; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:11:15 +0200
Received: by veronique.gransy.com (Postfix, from userid 33)
id 0FB72C51F; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:10:06 +0200 (CEST)

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-05-22

2007-05-22T16:03:59Z

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No. Not without contacting the ISPs used to send each mail, and even then
you'll probably need a court order in order to get them to listen to you.

Leo
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Comment from Melissa on 2007-05-21

2007-05-21T17:57:39Z

I have two different emails, from two different accounts of whom I believe to be the same person.
Is there a way to determine if they are indeed the same person harrassing me?

[email headers including someone else's email address removed.]

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-05-03

2007-05-04T03:04:37Z

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You can't. You've gotten as much information as someone can without involving
law enforcement.

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Comment from Mary on 2007-05-03

2007-05-03T23:49:23Z

I received mails with the same mail address,always yahoo, in the return-path,From, and Reply-to, but it doesn't exist.I checked the IP 200.69.231.41 but only said iplannetworks.net. How can I identify the real sender? Thanks.

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Comment from Bob on 2007-02-23

2007-02-24T01:02:48Z

Hi
Did you know there are private investigators that specialize in tracing emails? I was able to find out who my exwife was cheating with by visiting a website called emailrevealer.com.
I just gave them her screen name and they found s secret personals ad she had. Then I was albe to find her boyfriends email on her myspace page.
The detective foud her ad , the myspace account then located the guy she was cheating with.

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2007-01-09

2007-01-10T02:13:19Z

No way to find out that I know of.

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Comment from Kevin on 2007-01-09

2007-01-10T01:44:04Z

Dear Sir,
I need to find out who sent an email to me. They sent it to me before my wedding, telling me not to do it. They sent it via hotmail under a fake account and removed the account after sending the email. I still have the whole email and I am having trouble figuring out where it originated. Please help.

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2006-12-16

2006-12-16T17:53:03Z

Someone sent it using Yahoo's web mail interface. That's all you can tell from that.

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Comment from Linda Butler on 2006-12-16

2006-12-16T14:32:36Z

I need to know where an email I received came from. The ip information is as follows:[66.196.101.11]. The information in the received line is as follows: from 66.196.101.11 (HELO web59015.mail.re1.yahoo.com) (66.196.101.11) by mta173.mail.re3.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:46:40 -0800

Thanks for your help...I don't know how to read what it means. Thanks.

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Comment from James O'Reilly on 2006-12-11

2006-12-11T18:54:55Z

Hi,

Thank you for your help on this. My girlfriend is currently being harrased and is being thretand from a fake Yahoo address. We have been to the police as there are many threats and things are getting very personal.

I have an e-mail address, jenniegarthuk@yahoo.co.uk, whats the best way in finding out the IP address to give to the police as they are being most unhelpful.

Thanks for your advice so far, it is much appreciated.

Regards

James

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2006-11-29

2006-11-29T23:37:21Z

If the BCC line is present, but empty, it tells you nothing. You can make NO assumptions one way or another. There could have been BCC'ed recipients, or not.

If the BCC line is present, and has email addresses in it, that's a BUG in the sender's mailer - it should not be there. You can probably infer that the email addresses listed were BCC'ed, but CANNOT assume anything else. There could have been more BCC'ed. Or not.

If the BCC line is NOT present, you can assume nothing. There could have been BCC'ed recipients, or not.

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Comment from Gary on 2006-11-29

2006-11-29T23:32:18Z

I have question regarding BCC from an hotmail account. If BCC line is included in the header is it correct to say that the person who sent that email BCC'd someone else in on the email they sent me ?

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2006-11-19

2006-11-20T04:43:25Z

I doubt that you can. It all depends on how your carrier assigns/uses IP addresses, and there's no requirement that it be city based. In any case, you'd have to try and figure it out with them.

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Comment from Zoe on 2006-11-19

2006-11-19T21:27:34Z

I found your information VERY useful. Thank you so much Leo for making this available.

I do have one question though - How do i trace the city location where someone sent a messege via blackberry. If someone is on roaming service then how does I figure the city in which the mail was sent from?

THANKS

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2006-09-23

2006-09-23T15:44:53Z

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

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Comment from Manish on 2006-09-23

2006-09-23T09:42:33Z

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]

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Comment from jasmeet on 2006-09-07

2006-09-07T12:05:44Z

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

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Comment from Jasmeet on 2006-09-07

2006-09-07T11:48:17Z

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

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2006-08-08

2006-08-08T16:18:45Z

"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.

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Comment from Paige on 2006-08-07

2006-08-08T01:11:51Z

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?

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Comment from Mary on 2006-07-26

2006-07-26T10:53:25Z

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.

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2006-06-21

2006-06-21T17:50:01Z

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

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Comment from Timmy on 2006-06-21

2006-06-21T09:16:10Z

Hi,

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

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Comment from Leo on 2006-04-07

2006-04-07T15:08:28Z

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

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Comment from Stephen on 2006-04-06

2006-04-07T00:01:58Z

Hi Leo,
I used to have an email address that I used frequently, but for about a month I don’t get to check my mail. This email address started sending pornographic materials and viruses to all my contacts in my address book.
I canceled that account two weeks ago but my contacts still complain of receiving viruses from it. Please help!!
I've contacted my ISP and complained, traced the i.p on the header to the same ISP i use. I would really like to know the address of the computer doing this, not the server used to email.
Help

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Comment from Leo on 2006-03-29

2006-03-30T06:35:21Z

There's no way to know. You'll have to contact the organization.

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Comment from Siya on 2006-03-29

2006-03-30T06:23:06Z

Thanks for your reply Leo,But everytime I check the header its always showing the same IP address but different email a/cs. and when I tried to find out the exact location from that IP, I got an organisations address, Now in organisations an IP is assigned to a single user only. Can i know exactly who is sending those emails.

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Comment from Leo on 2006-03-29

2006-03-30T06:10:04Z

Sure. It's also possible that it's being sent by different people behind the same router or orgainzational firewall, or using the same anonymizer service.

Could be many things.

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Comment from Siya on 2006-03-29

2006-03-30T06:05:39Z

Hi Leo,

Someone is sending me threating emails from the same IP but different email addresses. Is there a possibility that its being sent by a single user using different accounts.

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Comment from Leo on 2006-03-24

2006-03-24T20:17:21Z

Spam. NEVER reply to spam.

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Comment from Rich on 2006-03-24

2006-03-24T20:15:41Z

I am getting emails with parts of them being just a bunch of scrambled words and the rest of the email is about sometihng being a good deal to buy stock in, "i think". Sometimes there are a name with it, but when I reply my mail cannot be delivered. What is it ?

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Comment from Leo on 2006-03-20

2006-03-21T04:55:09Z

You cannot get that level of detail. Please read the article you just commented on.

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Comment from mjanish on 2006-03-20

2006-03-21T04:43:55Z

i want to know the person who is send me some bugs mail

Haow can i find his location city & whole information for future cure

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Comment from Leo on 2006-03-02

2006-03-02T23:43:35Z

Only if you involve the police.

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Comment from Teri on 2006-03-02

2006-03-02T20:45:50Z

Someone broke into my sister-in-law's hotmail email account and is now sending very discreminating emails to her relatives and friends using her email address. Is there a way to find out the physical address that the person who has stolen the account is sending them from? They are saying that she is using drugs, abusing her kids, etc. and I am trying to contact her but the only way is through her email account. Please advise. thank you - Teri

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Comment from Leo on 2006-01-12

2006-01-12T18:02:20Z

It could be many things. In fact the either of them could be the IP address of the computer that originated, or forwarded the message - or they could be random crap inserted to make the mail "look" legitimate, or to obfuscate the real sender.

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Comment from Amy on 2006-01-12

2006-01-12T17:20:29Z

I am researching/tracing emails I am receiving from a hotmail account. In the bottom most "recieved" I get an IP that matches with the IP listed in the "X-Originating IP"

My question stems from another email from this hotmail account. Again, the IP in the bottom most "recieved" matches the "X-Originating IP" however there is a SECOND "X-Originating IP" listed after the first which gives me a completely different IP.

What is this second mysterious "X-Originating-IP"???

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Comment from Leo on 2005-11-13

2005-11-13T18:55:47Z

No, not that I'm aware of. And for the record, read-receipts - the confirmation you speak of - is 90% ineffective as well. Most people disable them.

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Comment from Jaggy on 2005-11-11

2005-11-12T00:23:41Z

is it possible to find out whre an email is read from?
just as we are able to get a confirmation message when the recipient reads our mail sent to them, is it possible to find out the IP address from where that mail is being accessed by the person?

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Comment from Leo on 2005-10-17

2005-10-18T00:04:35Z

You want this article: http://ask-leo.com/can_i_get_someones_name_and_address_from_their_ip_address.html

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Comment from kristen on 2005-10-16

2005-10-17T03:37:29Z

Leo, I might come across like a broken record, Ive been getting distrubing messages left on a web page of mine, Now all I have is an Ip address. Can it be tracked to more then just finding out city/state/isp? If so can you tell me how PLEASE... Thank You!!!

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Comment from Leo on 2005-09-30

2005-10-01T05:45:10Z

-700 is pacific time right now. But it's quite possible to set your computer to whatever time zone you like, so that doesn't really provide any proof.

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Comment from Merrie Price on 2005-09-27

2005-09-27T11:11:10Z

correction. I went back to look again. Each time that he has sent an email to me and I to him it is stamped -0700. I wanted to know is it possible to find out what time it is where he is sending the email from. The time stamps all say -0700 and he originally was supposed to be sending them to me and I am two hours earlier than I. But now he should be 6 hours ahead of me. This would not be an issue if I was not concerned that this person is not whom he said he is, or where he is. Thank you

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Comment from Merrie Price on 2005-09-27

2005-09-27T10:45:08Z

question. I have been typing with a man that said that he is from california but has traveled to the UK. But when he sends his e-mail through Yahoo the time stamp on it shows (PDT) does that mean that he is in the PDT time zone when he sent it and not actually traveling in the UK? Please this information will tell me if this man is not being honest with me. He wants to meet me and I need to find out if this is a scam. Thank you so much.

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Comment from Leo on 2005-09-15

2005-09-15T15:23:08Z

You can get part way by using the information in the article you just commented on. After that, you'll need Yahoo's help - IF they're willing to give it. (Typically they are no.)

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Comment from Patty on 2005-09-15

2005-09-15T14:29:20Z

Dear Leo, I recently received some emails from an annoymous person accusing my husband of having an affair and claiming to have details. I would really like to know who is sending these. They are using a yahoo email address. Is there any way I can trace the origin of these emails?

Thank you :)

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Comment from Leo on 2005-07-30

2005-07-30T23:54:10Z

Yes and no.

When you use Google, all you will find is any time that person's email address shows up on the web. That could be because of mailing lists that are archived on-line, usenet postings or what have you.

But it will NOT find email, and it will not track email.

It just finds what's on the web.

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Comment from Janis on 2005-07-30

2005-07-30T16:16:49Z

Curious...I found information on how to spy basically on someone if you have their Email address ...It said to go to Gooles Advanced Search and in the "author" box type in the email address an press search...you will find everything that person has writeen to public usenet groups and anything that person ha said in certain chat rooms....Can't find the Author box on Google in advanced.

Can this be true....can you do tracking or spying if you have someones Email address?

More curious than wanting to spy...just can't believe it can be that easy for some to do it or to have it done to me...

Your help is appreciated

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Comment from Leo on 2005-07-19

2005-07-19T19:04:46Z

Nope, not that I'm aware of. The ISP has to help.

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Comment from Alice on 2005-07-18

2005-07-18T07:59:23Z

hello, happy morning to you ....

As we known we are able to trace the email for who is sending by checking the full headers, and finally we will get the information about which ISP the email is sent through, but we dont know who actually the sender is except we require or report mail abuse to the ISP and get the details such as residential address ,phone number of the sender from them.

Refer to the above matter, is there any way or software to enable us to get full details of the sender ( i mean the phone number or residential address ...etc ) of the sender without requiring the ISP or reporting to the ISP ? or is there any software that we could trace the sender information in details by ourself ?

Beside that, i am not a hacker but i really interested in the relevant knowledge about that, how can i get knowledge about that ?

thank you and looking for you reply as soon as possible ...

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Comment from Leo on 2005-07-09

2005-07-10T04:01:26Z

It may be traceable, but if it is, it's very VERY hard, and would require HotMail's cooperation, which seems to me likely to happen only as the result of a police investigation or court order.

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Comment from Randy on 2005-07-09

2005-07-09T21:43:53Z

My friend (really) is going through a break up. She has been checking her ex-boyfriend's e-mail account to see if he's been home and deleting a couple of e-mails that were sent by his current girlfriend.

I told her this was an invasion of privacy and that her logging on to her ex's e-mail account can be traced to her.

She continues to check/delete his e-mail. If her ex suspects something, is there a way that my friend can be traced as the culprit?

Please reply ASAP because my friend is obsessed with doing this. If her actions can be traced, I'm sure that she will stop(hopefully).

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Comment from Leo on 2005-07-04

2005-07-04T20:11:42Z

Only using the techniques in the article you just commented on. To get more detailed, you'll need the originating ISP's help.

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Comment from Robin on 2005-07-03

2005-07-03T23:28:21Z

Someone is sending email to a person I know. Useing an email address I no longer have. I have a new account,screen name and password.Is there any way that this person can find out where the email came from. I have checked and it did not come from my computer. It appears that someone wants this person to think it did. Any info would be helpful
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I believe this person is also AOL

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Comment from Leo on 2005-06-30

2005-07-01T00:20:23Z

In most movies you'll note that it's the police doing it. That's what it takes ... the help of the ISP, usually at the request (or demand) of law-enforcement.

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Comment from John on 2005-06-30

2005-06-30T22:37:05Z

I can trace some from hotmail but others I can't and yahoo I can't is there a program or website to pinpoint there street adress no matter how they sent the email like in the movies. This email came from 211 seseame st. at 12:00 pm sat. June 9th??? if so please help!

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Comment from Leo on 2005-06-17

2005-06-17T15:39:18Z

You should read this article: http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_keep_my_computer_safe_on_the_internet.html

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Comment from Brandon P. on 2005-06-17

2005-06-17T07:40:17Z

hi, i was wondering, if someone can know my name or personal information i keep in my email, because i have some things in my credit balance that i dont even know who made. Is it hacking? my cousin told me that these guys can get into my pc if i dont have a Firewall, so he reccomended th norton antivirus, but i dont know if it right.
Thank You and waiting for your answer.
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Comment from Leo on 2005-06-08

2005-06-09T04:46:37Z

If you mean Email message, it's likely it only means that the computer used was set to the Pacific Timezone. The computer could be anywhere.

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Comment from Bonnie on 2005-06-08

2005-06-08T22:12:36Z

I guess I'm not computer literate enough to decipher all that. What I want to know is simple...if my boyfriend says he's in London and I get a yahoo message that shows a time with PDT after it, does that mean he is actually emailing me from somewhere else?

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Comment from Leo on 2005-05-29

2005-05-29T22:19:53Z

Use the techniques outlined in the article you just commented on. You may also want to read this article as well: http://ask-leo.com/someones_sending_from_my_email_address_how_do_i_stop_them.html

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Comment from Miriam on 2005-05-29

2005-05-29T18:17:51Z

I have received an email from someone who logged into my email adress and posted a message I would like to know if you can trace where they are emailing from.

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Comment from Leo on 2005-05-18

2005-05-19T05:04:40Z

The example of hotmail I sent to myself above is a good example. The information of explicitly where I'm located (i.e. the IP address of my machine) was never part of it.) I believe you would need to get yahoo or hotmail involved to find out more. They'll probably need things like a court order, if they even CAN get the info.

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Comment from James Hill on 2005-05-18

2005-05-18T15:01:28Z

Hi Leo,

First, I want to thank you for putting very informative information on the web.

I have a question about tracing the origin of an email. I think someone has been email me from a yahoo.com address but, when he is online at work not his home personal computer. Can I still trace this information? Would I need to get help from the company to find this out or can I determine this on my own. Also, what specifically will I have to look for in orde to figure this out? Thanks for the help!

Best Wishes,

James Hill

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