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I got some emails from someone claiming to be "a friend" and was wondering if there is anyway I could trace them to find out who it was.

It was sent from an email address in a false name but it was definitely sent by a person and not spam (it contained lots of details of my past, family, relationships etc). I have a fair idea of who it is but would like to know if there's any way I could make sure?

chazza Thurs 07/08/08 10:22

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Ethel
Thurs 07/08/08
10:53

Was it this person?

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Inte rnet/Question606535.html

You have no way of tracing the sender, except reporting them to the email domain for malicious intent.

ianmunt
Thurs 07/08/08
17:10

Phone them?

chazza
Fri 08/08/08
10:52

Question Author

There was no malicious intent though, so I couldn't really report them for that.

How could I phone them with an email address???

ianmunt
Fri 08/08/08
13:54

The suggestion was,if you think you know who it might be try a few folks you have numbers for

neildownx
Sun 10/08/08
12:02

all emails have header information
look at the header info it will give you various ip addresses
also if it has come straight from there computer it will have there name in the header also computer name. If they have used yahoo/gmail/hotmail or a server it may be tricker to find this info

you can find out roughly where in the world it came from and the time it was sent - or + 1 hour is okay as it is within the UK anything more it was sent outside the UK.

...send an email back asking how it is?!!!!!!!

try these sites for ip lookups

http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/iplocation. asp?ipaddress

http://www.networldmap.com/TryIt.htm?GetLocati on

chazza
Mon 11/08/08
10:23

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I have sent an email asking who but they want to remain anonymous so that doesn't help!

I will try those sites, thanks!

mycats
Tue 26/08/08
23:59

they claim to be a friend, give lots of details about your life (creepy) and want to stay anonymous ?? WTF!

what the hell do they want? I would contact their provider and complain

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