hiya, i have just recieved an email from a 'yahoo' account.. i have checked out the sender's yahoo id and have drawn a blank... is it possible to get the ip address for where the email was sent from? if so how? if i do somehow get the actual ip address from where this was sent from.. can i then get some/any information about ip address.. \ni.e. who owns it? or where the location of the sender is?!?
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Email transfer protocol allows the sender's data to be spoofed easily. Thus, if the sender doesn't want to be traced, it is very easy for him to prevent it.
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I wouldn't count on getting that information from Yahoo, even though the person involved did rip you off it's a privacy matter.  You might want to contact your local police station to see if they have an internet fraud division.  Problem is, a lot of these scammers are overseas where the police can't touch them.\n\nThere is a very good chance you'll never see your money again.\n\nIn the future, if you receive an eBay related email to your email account, check your ebay messages on your My Ebay page.  If the email does not appear there, it's most likely a scammer email.
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You can download ip trace tools but all you will end up with is a yahoo ip...give me the mail addy and maybe I can help. Some of the rest of you below me aint got a clue....answer questions you know sumthin about! Mt and Lan are the only ones here that know sumthin...
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What's up with this person?  Love interest?  Friend?  Just got the address from another person?  Do you want me to email him/her and find out for you?  Are you capable of asking this person their gender?  What do you want from us?  Shouldn't you be able to do this alone?
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Well, I can answer this without using your email.  Yahoo is known for blocking spam and it's high virus protection.  What it doesn't do is block emails from personal computers like the one you got.  And most of those emails originate from the ol' USA.  It's up to your knowledged of deciding what is fact and what is fiction.
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First you find the headers of the email. On yahoo, it is down near the bottom. Then you can look up the IP address by going to http://www.arin.net and put it in the search whois box.
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Good question. Yes, the IP can be traced. You can stop the IM's by putting that person on the ignore list, but that won't stop them from sending e-mails. I'm working on the same thing right now.Good Luck!
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http://ask-leo.com/how_can_i_trace_where_email_came_from.html
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You can always try looking up the e-mail adress in a web search engine. In older public forums the address was shown in clear text.\n\nQuite often the domain (the stuff behind the @ sign) can give hints about the sender, or the user handle before. Yahoo addresses may have a public profile which sometimes give you hints or information.\n\nIn the age of spam, more often than not the sender address is faked, though. In that case you couldn't even reply.\n\nAlternatively, you can use a second, free e-mail account to reply to the sender without revealing your identity. But then the original sender will be in the same situation you are in now...
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Click on full headers. the link is usually available at the end of the e-mail message. It has all information about the e-mail, but does not show the original sender. It shows you the original server from where the message originated. Usually SMTP is used to send. So, if you get any spam message, the sender will modify the "From:" header. So, the full headers will be usefull to trace out the person. Though we cannot directly trace out, the sender can be found on registering a complaint to cyber crime department.\n\nHope this helps\nHappy tracing
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sorry but you need to to the IP and onley your mail server has it and it is in high security levels\n\nif you have the ip you can trace it
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I have an address I rarely use.  Send it there and I'll check it over (no guarantees).  I think it's xxxxxxxxxxx.  I'll log off and check it and if it isn't the right address then I'll edit this message.  If I don't edit it, assume the address is correct.\n\n\nokay.  It was xxxxxxx
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The e-mail are being send through servers. There are programs that can trace back the e-mail sender, meaning that they can find the computers ip adress. There are more advanced programs that can even say the exact location (but cost a lot).\nBut this can't be done in general, because not all the e-mails come from a certain ip adress (i'm refering to those computers which connect to the internet by receiving a different ip automatically, though it's the same computer).
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I have the same problem with some people's aol addresses.  I always have my emails returned to me when I send from my Yahoo address, but not from my work email.  It's weird? Ask your friend to to a test email with you maybe?
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You can find someone's IP address from their email header.  But, an IP address usually isn't really helpful in finding someone's physical location (it is possible if you have resources like the CIA, but usually an individual doesn't have the resources to track an IP back to a house).  Anyway, you're on AOL, so no worried here....\n\nThis guy cannot find you through your IP address.  AOL does not use static IP's. Rather, your IP address changes everytime you log in to one of the many AOL IP addresses.  So, the only thing he would be able to tell if he checked your email headers is that you use AOL.  He would not be able to tell where you live: the only thing he could learn from reading your email headers is that you use AOL and have a USA IP address.\n\nIf you had a static IP address (an IP address that is always the same), like many DSL providers supply, the creep would be able to figure out a bit more about you from an IP address only if they are really, really savvy.  Most hotmail account users don't qualify as "computer savvy"\n\nSo, in terms of this guy finding you via old emails, no need to worry. But, I would stop replying to his emails.
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It certainly can. Look at the header. You will see that there's a list of the servers whose hands the mail passed through. The last one in the list shows the IP address of the machine it originated on (if it hasn't been forged).\n\nLook up that IP address using a DNS lookup website and it should tell you the ISP of that machine. Send the entire email as an attachment to abuse@ ... and the domain of the ISP and sit back and wait.\n\nThey may respond or they may not.\n---------------------------------\nThe header is the start of the email before the text. It's not usually displayed but here is the link to how to see it:\nhttp://help.yahoo.com/help/uk/mail/config/config-11.html\n\nThe person to contact is NOT Yahoo but the ISP of the machine from which it was sent.\n\nIf the offensive mails come from someone who has your email address because you previously corresponded with them or the mail is sent to you and you alone personally, then is technically not Spam.\n\nYou best bet is to create a filter that will delete mail from that person. Details of how to do that are in Mail Help on the Yahoo Mail website.
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For Instant Messages, it's tricky, as mostly information is hidden. In e-mail, look at the full headers (in Yahoo! mail these can be turned on/off in preferences, in Outlook they can viewed via properties of the message). There you'll find a chain of IP addresses that ends in the IP address of the sender. Via an online WHOIS server (for instance via www.dnsstuff.com), you can get details about the IP address including country, sometimes region, internet provider, etc.