How can you tell where an email is from from the "message source"?

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Where is the address that a spam email is from in the message source?

Can anyone tell me exactly where you find out who a supposedly junk email is from. I am enclosing a sample "message source" where I would like to find out who it is from.

Thank you,

TomS

part of a sample message source:

x-store-info:i1mvqhPkdZwu3DNZ/OabHafqIryYml+gVTfWUZtuhkNBLCFXFC/PmVV8Lj+APJRGccCDqNjrHAcsxJIOr6pTqzPwRNIUOQTCFXwtDjuvTaERk1rr9ujo0AEeeIMNDfPjHpkQ9yJAWUXSmK73dnAWow==
Authentication-Results: hotmail.com; spf=pass (sender IP is 161.170.248.191) smtp.mailfrom=bounce@bounce02.walmart.com; dkim=pass header.d=walmart.com; x-hmca=pass
X-SID-PRA: newsletters@walmart.com
X-AUTH-Result: PASS
X-SID-Result: PASS
X-Message-Status: n:n
X-Message-Delivery: Vj0xLjE7dXM9MDtsPTE7YT0xO0Q9MTtHRD0xO1NDTD0w
X-Message-Info: /Afko6AgMSwAiQ52xyLpAwRNj5gfRkMwOzQk3ndDlSpLLdWmfsZKj6vhu3CTst9e2Q+VMmxTijxSjooxX8LB/mwQlWDZ5FKX7jqRueftPFkmfe3b2CDWDsjbS6/sR1237Oq7WPVc5G3HJqMqyu10Iu/L2UrVRYe/
Received: from newsletter30.walmart.com ([161.170.248.191]) by BAY0-MC3-F39.Bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4900);
Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:19:07 -0700
Received: from edc-emailmta2 ([10.15.0.57])
by newsletter30.walmart.com (-); Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:19:59 -0700
X-VirtualServer: Default, newsletter30.walmart.com, 10.15.130.58
X-VirtualServerGroup: Default
X-MailingID2: 33574168::689402::100633::76502::82910378::150342_0
X-SMHeaderMap: mid="X-MailingID2"
X-Destination-ID: spetho2001@msn.com
X-SMFBL: c3BldGhvMjAwMUBtc24uY29t
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1;
c=nofws;
s=sm;
d=walmart.com;
q=dns;
b=c/9FfFNP+2qZqYbj5MbmM6csgQGR+e3Pz68rX3SJ83zCD6q+dq2E3HJelu0ILis9dh2zmkHl5zEGCCfsNe1Pw/5HazFmSkzBR+OXUKq/dD9K4K4dlrKIjTf7ABYOX4DtY16yY/uH4Bll9g/Y4XfhbzFnstexTVHCoi7rtDlZDT4=
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=simple; d=walmart.com; s=sm;
i=@walmart.com; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:
Content-Type:List-Unsubscribe:X-SMID:Reply-To:MIME-Version:
Message-ID:X-ReportingKey:Subject:Date:To:From; bh=XeMOZBZ26L09C
39K632JvyeCJ7M=; b=xZ+gyJrPh59+hzkBDGyXLor7foZq+30tl0UK7khzINpur
WMErQkSGM9FPwq5wadcjbT5Ck29lyuB0pzoXWCg33gQdTqnKlryWirXPjBkuhqfh
m6pTd3qJbrk2BBrUfnuofQ9Mcpa5WBBLMy5+lH6bmqcxeQGffr7AK8CaGJt/5s=
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="UTF-8"
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto: spamcomplaints@walmart.com>
X-SMID: WLMRT::689402
Reply-To: walmartnewsletters@walmart.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID: <33574168.150342@walmart.com>
X-ReportingKey: LJ559DPB2HRECESKL2GCXJJ12H8XJJ::spetho2001@msn.com::82910378
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Save=20big=20on=20like=2Dnew=2C=20always=20awesome=20Electronics=20?=
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:19:04 -0700
To: spetho2001@msn.com
From: "=?UTF-8?Q?Walmart?=" <newsletters@walmart.com>
Return-Path: bounce@bounce02.walmart.com
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Apr 2013 08:19:08.0163 (UTC) FILETIME=[8EC28530:01CE418D]

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Buffy Staffordshire · Accepted Answer

There are scam busting sites with online lists of the names scammers use, their fake job offers, their email addresses, stock copy/paste emails, paid-for-in-cash cell phone numbers, stolen pictures and fake websites they use. You could start your search and post/ask at such sites.

If you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even partial sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

Anonymous · Answer

Seriously? Everyone should know about the octopi incident by now. Get with the program Crash. OWEHEHE. I said octopi. I haven't been this excited since that James Bond movie called Octopussy.

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