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i have been recieving fraudulent emails from one of gmail account. kindly can anyone help how to trace the ip address, location of email sender.

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I would just mark it as Spam and then you won't see it in you inbox

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Also, forward the emails to the real companies and let them worry about how to sort them out. If you don't, then others will get these emails too. That way you'll be saving others ;)

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No, its not just about spam. these are life threatening mails, being targeted by some unknown person, to harm someones personnel integrity. kindly any help in this regard is very helpful.

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What is the sender's email address? (I might be able to find info on them - maybe)

 

But I would do like eatmyshorts said and forward the emails to the real company's and put in the subject line "Attention Someone Impersonating your Company"

 

Also report it to Google (Gmail) 

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I reported someone hacking my Yahoo account to Yahoo after that person had sent emails to all my contacts. They refused to do anything saying it was all my own fault. Seeing as the contact list they used were particular to that account and have never been hosted on my computer I don't think so. Funnily enough I gave cleared out all my contacts and stopped using that account.

I have also done as Tech 425 says and sent the real company the email. Don't always expect a reply.

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I understand powerpack - I should of said PM the info to me ;)

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yea copy  me as well...this  is  not a  question of  company  but  individual  sending  mail I  suspect... it  can be  traced....if you know how

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How can I know where an email really came from? Is there any way to find it out? I've heard about email headers, but I don't know where can I see email them, in Gmail, for instance. Any help?

 

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The full email and its headers will open:

 

 

Delivered-To: bill@gmail.com
Received: by 10.64.21.33 with SMTP id s1csp177937iee;
Mon, 8 Jul 2013 04:11:00 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.14.47.73 with SMTP id s49mr24756966eeb.71.1373281860071;
Mon, 08 Jul 2013 04:11:00 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <SRS0=Znlt=QW=yahoo.com=alice@domain.com>
Received: from maxipes.logix.cz (maxipes.logix.cz. [2a01:348:0:6:5d59:50c3:0:b0b1])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j47si6975462eeg.108.2013.07.08.04.10.59
for <bill@gmail.com>
(version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128);
Mon, 08 Jul 2013 04:11:00 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 2a01:348:0:6:5d59:50c3:0:b0b1 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of SRS0=Znlt=QW=yahoo.com=alice@domain.com) client-ip=2a01:348:0:6:5d59:50c3:0:b0b1;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
spf=neutral (google.com: 2a01:348:0:6:5d59:50c3:0:b0b1 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of SRS0=Znlt=QW=yahoo.com=alice@domain.com) smtp.mail=SRS0=Znlt=QW=yahoo.com=alice@domain.com
Received: by maxipes.logix.cz (Postfix, from userid 604)
id C923E5D3A45; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 23:10:50 +1200 (NZST)
X-Original-To: bill@domain.com
X-Greylist: delayed 00:06:34 by SQLgrey-1.8.0-rc1
Received: from elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.64])
by maxipes.logix.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B43175D3A44
for <bill@domain.com>; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 23:10:48 +1200 (NZST)
Received: from [168.62.170.129] (helo=laurence39)
by elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67)
(envelope-from <alice@yahoo.com>)
id 1Uw98w-0006KI-6y
for bill@domain.com; Mon, 08 Jul 2013 06:58:06 -0400
From: "Alice" <alice@yahoo.com>
Subject: Terrible Travel Issue.....Kindly reply ASAP
To: bill@domain.com
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="jtkoS2PA6LIOS7nZ3bDeIHwhuXF=_9jxn70"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Reply-To: alice@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 10:58:06 +0000
Message-ID: <E1Uw98w-0006KI-6y@elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net>
X-ELNK-Trace: 52111ec6c5e88d9189cb21dbd10cbf767e972de0d01da940e632614284761929eac30959a519613a350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c
X-Originating-IP: 168.62.170.129
[... I have cut the email body ...]

 

 

The headers are to be read chronologically from bottom to top—oldest are at the bottom. Every new server on the way adds its own message—starting with Received. For example:

 

 

Received: from maxipes.logix.cz (maxipes.logix.cz. [2a01:348:0:6:5d59:50c3:0:b0b1])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j47si6975462eeg.108.2013.07.08.04.10.59
for <bill@gmail.com>
(version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128);
Mon, 08 Jul 2013 04:11:00 -0700 (PDT)

 

This says that mx.google.com has received the mail from maxipes.logix.cz at Mon, 08 Jul 2013 04:11:00 -0700 (PDT).

Now, to find the real sender of your email, you must find the earliest trusted gateway—last when reading the headers from top. Let's start by finding Bill's mail server. For this, query MX record for the domain. You can use online tools like MxToolbox,

http://mxtoolbox.com/ 

or on Linux you can query it on command line (note the real domain name was changed to domain.com):

 

 

~$ host -t MX domain.com
domain.com MX 10 broucek.logix.cz
domain.com MX 5 maxipes.logix.cz

 

And you'll see the mail server for domain.com is maxipes.logix.cz or broucek.logix.cz. Hence, the last (first chronologically) trusted "hop"—or last trusted "received record" or whatever you call it—is this one:

 

 

Received: from elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.64])
by maxipes.logix.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B43175D3A44
for <bill@domain.com>; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 23:10:48 +1200 (NZST)

 

You can trust this because it was recorded by Bill's mail server for domain.com. This server got it from209.86.89.64. This could be, and very often is, the real sender of the email—in this case the scammer! You can check this IP on a blacklist.

http://www.mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3a209.86.89.64&run=toolpage 

 It's listed in three blacklists! There's yet another record below it:

 

 

Received: from [168.62.170.129] (helo=laurence39)
by elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67)
(envelope-from <alice@yahoo.com>)
id 1Uw98w-0006KI-6y
for bill@domain.com; Mon, 08 Jul 2013 06:58:06 -0400

 

But be careful trusting that this is the real source of the email. The blacklist complaint could just be added by the scammer to wipe out his traces and/or lay a false trail. There's still the possibility that the server 209.86.89.64 is innocent and just a relay for the real attacker at 168.62.170.129. In this case, 168.62.170.129 is clean so we can be nearly certain the attack was done from209.86.89.64.

Another point to keep in mind is that Alice uses Yahoo! (alice@yahoo.com) and elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net isn't on the Yahoo! network (you may want to re-check its IP Whois information

http://who.is/whois-ip/ip-address/209.86.89.64

). Therefore we may safely conclude that this email is not from Alice, and we should not send her money to the Philippines.

 

The Shortcut

Or, you can paste the headers into SpamCop

http://www.spamcop.net/ 

and let it do all the deciphering for you. They'll even send a SPAM notice to the responsible sysadmin(s) if you wish.

 

Another Shortcut 

Or, you can also use Google's header analysis tool.

https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/messageheader/
Why Not Just Respond? 

Spoofed emails are painfully common—to the point where I commonly advice people who get such e-mails to ask something only the owner of the email addie would know is false.

Because You Could Make Yourself A Target 

Best practice is often to not reply—a reply (or clicking any link, or loading external resources, e.g. images) could provide an indication to mass-spammers that your email address is a valid one, and someone is actually reading it.

 

(Source:Lifehacker)

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