Windows 10: Finding someones IP addy from email sent to me, Yahoo/Gmail
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Finding someones IP addy from email sent to me, Yahoo/Gmail
I copied the "raw text" but all I can get from it is Yahoo's in-beween IP location i.e. some town Callifornia. I know the aprox. area of the state there in so I know it's not CA.Example; Received-SPF: pass (domain of yahoo.com designates 66.163.191.149 as permitted sender) is this like a filter that Yahoo provides to prevent IP address lookup?I'm getting a few harrasing emails from this person and I just wanted to scare him into thinking I can locate him if he keeps being a jerk.Is there a more effecient/effective way to know more about him from info. within his emails.?
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You might want to try an effective spam filter, which would mean you never see those emails again.
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The most you can get from an email header is the machine it originated on. In the case of Yahoo/Gmail webmail that would be the server that they had logged onto to compose and send it.
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It should show in the headers the IP that they logged into the email server
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Samuria said:
It should show in the headers the IP that they logged into the email server
Surely that's only true if the mail was sent from a local mail app using POP or SMTP? I see no such IP in the headers of mail composed with a browser via the webmail interface.
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Zippy2222 said:
I'm getting a few harrasing emails from this person and I just wanted to scare him into thinking I can locate him if he keeps being a jerk.
That does not sound like a great idea. Cyber-bullying on his side is one thing, but if you send an email like: "I am coming to get you". That is a threat and the full penalty of law applies accordingly.
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Spoofing an ip address from *anywhere* happens. Spammers hide their true location by using an ip address from some really far away places.
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me75006 said:
Spoofing an ip address from *anywhere* happens. Spammers hide their true location by using an ip address from some really far away places.
Same thing for phone marketeers, get a lot of calls identified as being in the same area code as my phones but turns out that is a spoof, could be from anywhere.
If they use an online webmaill it still shows their ip not the webmail ip there is a tool to check it for you http://whatismyipaddress.com/trace-email
Samuria said:
If they use an online webmaill it still shows their ip not the webmail ip there is a tool to check it for you
Tried that. For an email from a googlemail address who I know uses online webmail it says: X-Originating-IP: [74.125.82.50]
A tracert identifies that as the Google server: mail-wm0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]