08/05/2013

How To Trace an Email Sender location

Email- electronic mail, we all are using this service to transfer documents and small data over the internet and it is free.So because of it is free, anyone can use it and send documents for free to anyone in the world.So there are many possibilities of spamming and illegal activity over the internet.Some vendors buy list of emails from any company or institutions and send mail about their new product.This is called an email marketing.If you want to know more about email marketing then Google it.

Sometimes we get Emails from unknown users.It is very necessary to know that who is a sender to Protect your mails and data from hackers.There are lots of Spam emails  received everyday in the world.Today Cyber crimes are increasing more and more.So,everyone should know that how to trace email which is comes from unknown users.

Well, this wrong emails are normal, but sometimes w receives some frauds emails like give me your ATM number or bank account number.In these critical situations, you have to inform cyber cells or trace senders location.It is not possible to trace exact location for us, but atleast we can trace its approximate location.If situation becomes more critical then you have to complain about this activity in cyber cell.

There is an online website that can analyze the header and gives complete detail about the sender like IP address which is used to find the person,Mail server used,Service Provider etc.Email Tracer traces up to an Internet Service Provider level only.Further tracing can be done with the help of an ISP and law enforcement agencies.You should have permission to access it if you want.


You should follow these instructions carefully:

1.Log in in to your mail account(here we follow this steps in Gmail).

  Similarly you can try this trick for Yahoo,Hotmail,etc. 
  Click Here for finding header in different mail account

2.Go to mail that you want to trace.


3.Click on Replay button and then go to show original.



4.Copy all the text and paste into the website.

5.Then Click on Start Tracing.

6.It will trace sender's IP location,Server provider etc.

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