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Trace email address

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  • 19-09-2012 11:23pm
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    investment
    Registered Users Posts: 573 ✭✭✭


    i got an email from a person i dont know very well and i think the email address is from a fake person

    Is it possible to trace an email??


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    Fordy72
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭Fordy72


    Hi!

    Try entering the address in pipl.com

    Might be helpful to you.

    M.


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    TouchingVirus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,584 ✭✭✭TouchingVirus


    What are you using to view the email?

    You can view email headers which should tell you the route the mail took to get into your inbox. So if you've received an email from X@gmail.com and you view the Received part of the email header and it comes from somewhere in Nigeria you know you've probably got a forged email :)

    http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/892/Understanding+an+email+header


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    investment
    Registered Users Posts: 573 ✭✭✭investment


    Fordy72 wrote: »
    Hi!

    Try entering the address in pipl.com

    Might be helpful to you.

    M.

    I tried and nothing came up so from that can I take it that its fake??...or can one never tell


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    Timfy
    Registered Users Posts: 727 ✭✭✭Timfy


    You can check if an email address is attached to a known spammer by searching on the address here

    http://www.stopforumspam.com/

    (Note: I have no link to the site in question other than using it to maintain a forum blacklist)

    No trees were harmed in the posting of this message, however a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.



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    Fordy72
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭Fordy72


    ...Like most things - proceed with caution I suppose!


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    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Lads can you not trace the country from the IP address. I've never had to do it but if you reveal the full header you can get the IP adress of the sender and just google IP adress locator, if it's from a country you don't know anyone from well then..


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