if a person say that lives in washington but the real thing is that the same person send e-mails from russia, how is possible to know if one e-mail is from russia or any other place?
2006-09-12 04:58:15 · 4 answers · asked by Luis S 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Well there are ways to mask it, but if you look at the full headers you can find the original IP address most of the time. It will be down in the header because each server adds information to the top. It is a tab on the properties or under tool>view>full header -- depends on your email client. Anyhow it should be the first one that a server says they received it from.
You can take that and go to dnsstuff.com and look up who owns that IP address. That will include an address and contact info.
Just a bit of advice, if you are questioning this for any reason you really want to not do any business with that person. Email is so easy to fake and play with that you can't tell for sure anything contained in it. It is a big tool for scams for all those reasons.
2006-09-12 05:20:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certain email editors like MS Outlook do allow you to know the complete path followed by messages. This is in terms of IP addresses like 255.11.234.43 etc. This keeps complete information as from where the message originated. But you need to have Networking knowledge to decrypt this number, as these numbers are mapped to fields like Gateway id, Network id, Machine id etc.
2006-09-12 12:07:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at the full headers (depends on the email software, but there should be an option somewhere). That shows the route the email took to get to you.
2006-09-12 12:07:57 · answer #3 · answered by Fix My PC Mike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The IP is in the email headers but that can be easily masked using a Proxy.
2006-09-13 04:56:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋