Well every now and then..you read in the newspaper or see on television that mail was sent from ABC cyber cafe..or XYZ city...etc etc...Have you ever wondered..how police or ATC are actually able to do this??? Well you really dont need a IT professional to trace an email..because its not that complicated and difficult..
In this post computervedas is going to teach you how its done..
Well here is the outline of what we are actually going to do..
First we will find the ip address(much like the identity of a computer on the internet) of the sender of the mail...then we will trace his location on a map using that ip address..Simple isnt it?
Ok now in this trick i am going to use yahoo mail....because thats what i normally use..Ip adresses are normally not shown in a mail..because they are found in Headers.
Headers are enclosed beween square brackets, for instance, [129.130.1.1]
So to find them do the following...
1. Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password.
2. Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
3. Open the mail.
4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed. To display the headers,
•Click on Options on the top-right corner
•In the Mail Options page, click on General Preferences
•Scroll down to Messages where you have the Headers option
•Make sure that Show all headers on incoming messages is selected
•Click on the Save button
•Go back to the mails and open that mail
5. You should see similar headers like above
Or if you want to manually find the IP address, proceed to 6.
6. Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ]. Here, it is 202.65.138.109.
That is the IP address of the sender.
If there are many instances of Received: from with the IP address, select the IP address in the last pattern. If there are no instances of Received: from with the IP address, select the first IP address in X-Originating-IP.
7. Now that you have the IP address of the sender..its time to hunt him down.. Enter the IP address that you want to trace in the dialog box and click on "Search”.
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With just a click of a button you can find the following information for any given IP address.
1. Country in which the IP is located
2. Region
3. City
4. Latitude/Longitude
5. Zip Code
6. Time Zone
7. Name of the ISP
8. Internet Speed
9. Weather Station
10. Area Code and
11. Domain name associated with the IP address
Well in the following box you can see your location,IP address etc etc....For a demo you can enter the ip address given below in the box above.....hope u like my post...lookin forward for comments and suggestions.