Every active user of the Internet has a personal email address. But not always welcome letters come to this address. If a letter of suspicious content arrives at your inbox, then you can check the sender's address.
You will need
- the address of one of the whois services
Instruction manual
1
Find the "Advanced" or "More" menus in your email inbox. In this menu, find the submenu "Message Properties" or "Service Headers". Open this submenu. On the monitor of your computer information like:
• Received: from mxfront35.mail.y **** x.net ([127.0.0.1])
• by mxfront35.mail.y ***** x.net with LMTP id 1Wwatc4E
• for; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:01:32 +0400
• Received: from 95.58.95.4.static.telecom.k * (95.58.95.4.static.telecom.k * [95.58.95.4])
• by mxfront35.mail. ***** x.net (nwsmtp / Y *** x) with ESMTP id 1Vp4isW9;
• Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:01:31 +0400
2
Copy the sequence of numbers separated by dots after the word "from". (In this example, 95.58.95.4) These numbers are the IP (IP) address of the computer from which this letter was sent to you. Using this IP address, it will be possible to determine the specific address of the sender, or at least its domain address. The fact is that IP addresses are dynamic and static. The exact address can only be determined by static IP. By dynamic, you can independently recognize only the region of the sender.
3
Visit the whois free service page. Enter the numbers of the IP address in the space provided for this field and click on the search button. Examine carefully the information received. If it is not the spammer who sent you the letter, then you can see the name of the sending organization and, possibly, its exact coordinates. If not, use the sender’s domain information, for example:
• Domain Name: C ************** R.COM
• Administrative Contact:
• 12405 PowersCourt Drive
• Saint Louis, MO 63131
• US
• 314-965 - ****** 5
4
Call the contact numbers indicated there and try to find out more detailed information about the sender of the letter from the domain owner.
note
Fraudsters and malicious spammers can disguise themselves very well, so in this case you are unlikely to find the address of the sender without the help of special services.
