Is it posible to trace back the email address of the person who spammed me??
2007-01-15 08:07:13 · 1 answers · asked by Payback 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
it is, yes. Depending on your email program you would do something like view all headers.
And you are looking for the computer that said "hello" to your email provider.
X-Apparently-To: myaddress@yahoo.com via 68.142.206.203; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:45:05 -0800
X-Originating-IP: [206.190.56.45]
Return-Path:
Authentication-Results: mta335.mail.re4.yahoo.com from=cc.yahoo-inc.com; domainkeys=pass (ok)
Received: from 206.190.56.45 (HELO n5a.bullet.re4.yahoo.com) (206.190.56.45)
by mta335.mail.re4.yahoo.com with SMTP; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:45:05 -0800
---> right here --> Received: from [68.142.237.88] by n5.bullet.re4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Jan 2007 20:44:19 -0000
Received: from [216.252.107.89] by t4.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Jan 2007 20:44:19 -0000
Date: 15 Jan 2007 12:44:19 -0800
Received: from [127.0.0.1] by adm1.answers.search.re4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Jan 2007 20:44:19 -0000
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2007-01-15 08:13:29 · answer #1 · answered by John C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can - but it may be a false address. I belong to an orchid society here in Washington state, and recently, some creepy person decided to use our club's web address as his spam return address. We've had hundred of rude e-mails (not that I blame the people), and had to post a notice on our web site that we're not the ones sending out the junk. Oh well - I guess some people will do anything to make a buck...!
2007-01-15 08:16:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably so. I have a little program that I click it and send it back to the sender and it shows up in their email box like a returned email . It appears my address doesn't exist. I might get 2 spams from the same person but after that it apparently deletes my address from their database...I would look into getting a good spam guard or use the one thats built into Oulook 2003.thanks
2007-01-15 08:11:23 · answer #3 · answered by computer_surplus2005 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
open your email account and go into the Options section
look around for something along the lines of short header / long header
you want to check off - long header
this will open the information of the person who sends you email (in each individual email)
once you get that information written down go into a site such as melissa data - http://www.melissadata.com/
once in there - go into the lookup section and then into the IP Location - and type in the IP address from the email that was sent to you
2007-01-15 08:21:27 · answer #4 · answered by dreddful1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes - but it takes some very high-tech software. Sort of stuff that only the military or Microsoft have access to.
2007-01-15 08:11:32 · answer #5 · answered by Tony B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋