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Is my ip address definable through my email?

I am trying to mess with a scam artist and just wanted to know if I can be traced.

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  • 9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Wasting a scammer's time legally and safely is called "scambaiting". If you google that word, you will find sites where you can read scambaits, post up the emails and email addresses of scammers, post up a fake website, read up on how to alert a hosting company that they are hosting a fake website, ask questions and learn all about the hobby of scambaiting.

    Making a scammer's scam googlable on every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find is a great way to slow that scammer down when a suspicious potential victim goes looking for information, finds your post containing the name the scammer is using, his email address, phone number and the emails themselves and then that potential victim does not become a scam victim because you took the time "get the word out".

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    The email address itself involves the URL of the e-mail server. No hacking or methods worried. The basic e mail tackle layout is: <consumer>@<server URL> or <person>@<server IP handle> IP addresses contained in email headers will have to incorporate the sending server, and could incorporate a number of different intermediate servers. Forged e-mail as a rule contains extra false server addresses but the sending server continues to be in the list. It takes some talent to variety out forged email. If there is no reply email deal with, then it can be a cast email. If this is the case, the only factor which you could get from the email header is the IP address of the e-mail server. Once more, whether it is cast, the traditional person will want support sorting the false addresses from the real ones. It can be amazing how much unsolicited mail e mail I it appears send to myself. Probably after I'm sleep computing? Finally, the one approach you'll be able to find an electronic mail tackle for the sender is that if it was once in the e mail header as a reply deal with or some servers comprise the sender e mail within the server record. There are other non-compulsory electronic mail header strains that may also incorporate the sender's email but they don't seem to be generally utilized by people. So the reply is might be relying on various factors that you simply can not manage and how a lot of the e-mail header that you can see. Some internet mail servers like Gmail do not actually show you the whole electronic mail header. Shadow Wolf

  • 9 years ago

    Your ip address will be logged by how you will have logged in but that will only be available by your email provider, so unless he has some form of incredible hacking software you can't be traced by the ip.

  • 9 years ago

    Of course it is

    http://aruljohn.com/info/howtofindipaddress/

    It's in the full header of the emails you send out

    If you want to scambait, route your emails through a proxy server. Look up "free proxy server" and pick a random country

    Here is just one of the many lists

    http://www.hidemyass.com/proxy-list/

    You can pretend you are in China, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, etc

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  • Miha L
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Sure.

    Just use any of email tracers below:

    http://www.ip-address.org/tracker/trace-email.php

    http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/email-tracking/em...

    http://www.find-ip-address.org/email-search/find-e...

    and you will see what is possible to get from any email header.

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