by Wiljames
Sun Nov 16, 2014 1:03 am
May be a copycat of this modality:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=91916&p=227320&hilit=steve+benson#p227320
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Trace EmailTrace Email
Find Email Address Source
In the following steps you'll learn how to find and copy an email header and paste it into the Trace Email Analyzer to get the sender's IP address and track the source.
Would you like to track down (or trace) where an email that you received came from?
This Trace Email tool can help you do precisely that. It works by examining the header that is a part of the emails you receive to find the IP address. If you read the IP Lookup page, you'll get a clear idea of what information an IP address can reveal.
(A header is the unseen part of every sent and received email. To learn a little bit more on headers, click here. You can see an example of a header at the end of this article.)
What email provider do you use?
To find the IP address of a received email you're curious about, open the email and look for the header details. How you find that email's header depends on the email program you use. Do you use Gmail or Yahoo? Hotmail or Outlook?
For example, if you're a Gmail user, here are the steps you'd take:
Open the message you want to view
Click the down arrow next to the "Reply" link
Select "Show Original" to open a new window with the full headers
Note: We are in the process of compiling instructions from a variety of popular webmail services and email applications. In the meantime, if you have a question about your email provider, please post it in the Email Tracing Forum.
STEPS TO TRACING AN EMAIL:
Get instructions for locating a header for your email provider here
Open the email you want to trace and find its header
Copy the header, then paste it into the Trace Email Analyzer below
Press the "Get Source" button
Scroll down below the box for the Trace Email results!
You should know that in some instances people send emails with false or "forged" headers, which are common in spam and unwanted or even malicious e-mail. Our Trace Email tool does not and cannot detect forged e-mail. That's why that person forged the header to begin with!
Trace Email Analyzer
Paste the header you've copied in the box.
Return-Path: [email protected] Received: from oms-m07.mx.aol.com ([64.12.109.83]) by mx-ha.gmx.net (mxgmx007) with ESMTPS (Nemesis) id 0M5Yu8-1Y1wl718qe-00xYlU for <[email protected]>; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:49:05 +0100 Received: from omr-m06.mx.aol.com (omr-m06.mx.aol.com [64.12.143.80]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by oms-m07.mx.aol.com (AOL Outbound OMS Interface) with ESMTPS id F14B23800016C for <[email protected]>; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:49:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mtaout-aam01.mx.aol.com (mtaout-aam01.mx.aol.com [172.27.19.145]) by omr-m06.mx.aol.com (Outbound Mail Relay) with ESMTP id E4EE3700000A8 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:48:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from chima-HP (unknown [41.138.185.237]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mtaout-aam01.mx.aol.com (MUA/Third Party Client Interface) with ESMTPSA id D08A038000086 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:48:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steve Benson" <[email protected]> Subject: Dear friend!! To: [email protected] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Kyl=_hf619nCpTXMGd6qHTYo8mTbxAReFd0" MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:48:53 +0100 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 141025-1, 2014/10/25), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean x-aol-global-disposition: S X-SPAM-FLAG: YES DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mx.aol.com; s=20140625; t=1414316938; bh=XgZkDImjsDr/wlMHQiTiQkPBFXG6RRl+nB1evkRbvCw=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=TSHaYIDEcFje9BjTXi/S8Pk4IhnR0KmzkvnbCBOTe6MkJ7XsyIHz/PHNQS05ZDHfH vk1zVBztl3YwTpqFRQ3Z/XqXzFZM0nowS6tuitNAJ9VLWeZA0E2/7cEdr1UPneHTII l4AglYAMQkiURXa6L/dc352kGnluUcNcyQ1Dmy9U= X-AOL-REROUTE: YES x-aol-sid: 3039ac1b1391544cc3895675 X-AOL-IP: 41.138.185.237 Envelope-To: <[email protected]> X-GMX-Antispam: 6 (nemesis text pattern profiler); Detail=V3; X-GMX-Antivirus: 0 (no virus found)
Example of an email header
Return-path: <[email protected]>
Received: from mac.com ([10.13.11.252])
by ms031.mac.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28
2007)) with ESMTP id <[email protected]> for [email protected]; Thu,
09 Aug 2007 04:24:50 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail.dsis.net (mail.dsis.net [70.183.59.5])
by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin22/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id l79BOnNS000101
for <[email protected]>; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:24:49 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from [192.168.2.77] (70.183.59.6) by mail.dsis.net with ESMTP
(EIMS X 3.3.2) for <[email protected]>; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:24:49 -0700
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:24:57 -0700
From: Frank Sender <[email protected]>
Subject: Test
To: Joe User <[email protected]>
Message-id: <[email protected]>
MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2)
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2)
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
Analysis:
Return-Path: [email protected]
Received: from oms-m07.mx.aol.com ([64.12.109.83]) by mx-ha.gmx.net (mxgmx007) with ESMTPS (Nemesis) id 0M5Yu8-1Y1wl718qe-00xYlU for <[email protected]>; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:49:05 +0100
Received: from omr-m06.mx.aol.com (omr-m06.mx.aol.com [64.12.143.80]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by oms-m07.mx.aol.com (AOL Outbound OMS Interface) with ESMTPS id F14B23800016C for <[email protected]>; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:49:00 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from mtaout-aam01.mx.aol.com (mtaout-aam01.mx.aol.com [172.27.19.145]) by omr-m06.mx.aol.com (Outbound Mail Relay) with ESMTP id E4EE3700000A8 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:48:58 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from chima-HP (unknown [41.138.185.237]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mtaout-aam01.mx.aol.com (MUA/Third Party Client Interface) with ESMTPSA id D08A038000086 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:48:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steve Benson" <[email protected]>
Subject: Dear friend!!
To: [email protected]
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Kyl=_hf619nCpTXMGd6qHTYo8mTbxAReFd0"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Reply-To: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:48:53 +0100
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 141025-1, 2014/10/25), Outbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
x-aol-global-disposition: S
X-SPAM-FLAG: YES
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mx.aol.com; s=20140625; t=1414316938; bh=XgZkDImjsDr/wlMHQiTiQkPBFXG6RRl+nB1evkRbvCw=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=TSHaYIDEcFje9BjTXi/S8Pk4IhnR0KmzkvnbCBOTe6MkJ7XsyIHz/PHNQS05ZDHfH vk1zVBztl3YwTpqFRQ3Z/XqXzFZM0nowS6tuitNAJ9VLWeZA0E2/7cEdr1UPneHTII l4AglYAMQkiURXa6L/dc352kGnluUcNcyQ1Dmy9U=
X-AOL-REROUTE: YES
x-aol-sid: 3039ac1b1391544cc3895675
X-AOL-IP: 41.138.185.237
Envelope-To: <[email protected]>
X-GMX-Antispam: 6 (nemesis text pattern profiler); Detail=V3;
X-GMX-Antivirus: 0 (no virus found)
Source:
The source IP address is 41.138.185.237.
Geo-Location Information
Country Nigeria
State/Region 05
City Lagos
Latitude 6.4531
Longitude 3.3958
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=91916&p=227320&hilit=steve+benson#p227320
From: "Steve Benson" <[email protected]>
To:
Subject: Dear friend!!
My name is Steve Benson. I work with one of the leading Banks here in London, UK. I have a business Proposal that will be of benefit to the both of us and I shall be compensating you with 40% at the final conclusion. If you are interested please reply ASAP for more details, Regards, Steve Benson
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Trace EmailTrace Email
Find Email Address Source
In the following steps you'll learn how to find and copy an email header and paste it into the Trace Email Analyzer to get the sender's IP address and track the source.
Would you like to track down (or trace) where an email that you received came from?
This Trace Email tool can help you do precisely that. It works by examining the header that is a part of the emails you receive to find the IP address. If you read the IP Lookup page, you'll get a clear idea of what information an IP address can reveal.
(A header is the unseen part of every sent and received email. To learn a little bit more on headers, click here. You can see an example of a header at the end of this article.)
What email provider do you use?
To find the IP address of a received email you're curious about, open the email and look for the header details. How you find that email's header depends on the email program you use. Do you use Gmail or Yahoo? Hotmail or Outlook?
For example, if you're a Gmail user, here are the steps you'd take:
Open the message you want to view
Click the down arrow next to the "Reply" link
Select "Show Original" to open a new window with the full headers
Note: We are in the process of compiling instructions from a variety of popular webmail services and email applications. In the meantime, if you have a question about your email provider, please post it in the Email Tracing Forum.
STEPS TO TRACING AN EMAIL:
Get instructions for locating a header for your email provider here
Open the email you want to trace and find its header
Copy the header, then paste it into the Trace Email Analyzer below
Press the "Get Source" button
Scroll down below the box for the Trace Email results!
You should know that in some instances people send emails with false or "forged" headers, which are common in spam and unwanted or even malicious e-mail. Our Trace Email tool does not and cannot detect forged e-mail. That's why that person forged the header to begin with!
Trace Email Analyzer
Paste the header you've copied in the box.
Return-Path: [email protected] Received: from oms-m07.mx.aol.com ([64.12.109.83]) by mx-ha.gmx.net (mxgmx007) with ESMTPS (Nemesis) id 0M5Yu8-1Y1wl718qe-00xYlU for <[email protected]>; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:49:05 +0100 Received: from omr-m06.mx.aol.com (omr-m06.mx.aol.com [64.12.143.80]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by oms-m07.mx.aol.com (AOL Outbound OMS Interface) with ESMTPS id F14B23800016C for <[email protected]>; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:49:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mtaout-aam01.mx.aol.com (mtaout-aam01.mx.aol.com [172.27.19.145]) by omr-m06.mx.aol.com (Outbound Mail Relay) with ESMTP id E4EE3700000A8 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:48:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from chima-HP (unknown [41.138.185.237]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mtaout-aam01.mx.aol.com (MUA/Third Party Client Interface) with ESMTPSA id D08A038000086 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:48:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steve Benson" <[email protected]> Subject: Dear friend!! To: [email protected] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Kyl=_hf619nCpTXMGd6qHTYo8mTbxAReFd0" MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:48:53 +0100 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 141025-1, 2014/10/25), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean x-aol-global-disposition: S X-SPAM-FLAG: YES DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mx.aol.com; s=20140625; t=1414316938; bh=XgZkDImjsDr/wlMHQiTiQkPBFXG6RRl+nB1evkRbvCw=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=TSHaYIDEcFje9BjTXi/S8Pk4IhnR0KmzkvnbCBOTe6MkJ7XsyIHz/PHNQS05ZDHfH vk1zVBztl3YwTpqFRQ3Z/XqXzFZM0nowS6tuitNAJ9VLWeZA0E2/7cEdr1UPneHTII l4AglYAMQkiURXa6L/dc352kGnluUcNcyQ1Dmy9U= X-AOL-REROUTE: YES x-aol-sid: 3039ac1b1391544cc3895675 X-AOL-IP: 41.138.185.237 Envelope-To: <[email protected]> X-GMX-Antispam: 6 (nemesis text pattern profiler); Detail=V3; X-GMX-Antivirus: 0 (no virus found)
Example of an email header
Return-path: <[email protected]>
Received: from mac.com ([10.13.11.252])
by ms031.mac.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28
2007)) with ESMTP id <[email protected]> for [email protected]; Thu,
09 Aug 2007 04:24:50 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail.dsis.net (mail.dsis.net [70.183.59.5])
by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin22/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id l79BOnNS000101
for <[email protected]>; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:24:49 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from [192.168.2.77] (70.183.59.6) by mail.dsis.net with ESMTP
(EIMS X 3.3.2) for <[email protected]>; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:24:49 -0700
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:24:57 -0700
From: Frank Sender <[email protected]>
Subject: Test
To: Joe User <[email protected]>
Message-id: <[email protected]>
MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2)
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2)
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
Analysis:
Return-Path: [email protected]
Received: from oms-m07.mx.aol.com ([64.12.109.83]) by mx-ha.gmx.net (mxgmx007) with ESMTPS (Nemesis) id 0M5Yu8-1Y1wl718qe-00xYlU for <[email protected]>; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:49:05 +0100
Received: from omr-m06.mx.aol.com (omr-m06.mx.aol.com [64.12.143.80]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by oms-m07.mx.aol.com (AOL Outbound OMS Interface) with ESMTPS id F14B23800016C for <[email protected]>; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:49:00 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from mtaout-aam01.mx.aol.com (mtaout-aam01.mx.aol.com [172.27.19.145]) by omr-m06.mx.aol.com (Outbound Mail Relay) with ESMTP id E4EE3700000A8 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:48:58 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from chima-HP (unknown [41.138.185.237]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mtaout-aam01.mx.aol.com (MUA/Third Party Client Interface) with ESMTPSA id D08A038000086 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:48:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steve Benson" <[email protected]>
Subject: Dear friend!!
To: [email protected]
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Kyl=_hf619nCpTXMGd6qHTYo8mTbxAReFd0"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Reply-To: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:48:53 +0100
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 141025-1, 2014/10/25), Outbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
x-aol-global-disposition: S
X-SPAM-FLAG: YES
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mx.aol.com; s=20140625; t=1414316938; bh=XgZkDImjsDr/wlMHQiTiQkPBFXG6RRl+nB1evkRbvCw=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=TSHaYIDEcFje9BjTXi/S8Pk4IhnR0KmzkvnbCBOTe6MkJ7XsyIHz/PHNQS05ZDHfH vk1zVBztl3YwTpqFRQ3Z/XqXzFZM0nowS6tuitNAJ9VLWeZA0E2/7cEdr1UPneHTII l4AglYAMQkiURXa6L/dc352kGnluUcNcyQ1Dmy9U=
X-AOL-REROUTE: YES
x-aol-sid: 3039ac1b1391544cc3895675
X-AOL-IP: 41.138.185.237
Envelope-To: <[email protected]>
X-GMX-Antispam: 6 (nemesis text pattern profiler); Detail=V3;
X-GMX-Antivirus: 0 (no virus found)
Source:
The source IP address is 41.138.185.237.
Geo-Location Information
Country Nigeria
State/Region 05
City Lagos
Latitude 6.4531
Longitude 3.3958
