Gmail has became one of the most popular email service provider and thus one of the favorite targets of hackers. A lot of complain have been found about spamming, email bombing and phishing. Most of us have witnessed the spams flooding our inbox. Have you ever wondered were the hell that all mail came from.
You must have heard about phishing. You got some link you click on it and fill up the form and your account gets hacked. Ya that is phishing. So, when a email is send by a hacker to you most probably it feels like, it came from the genuine source. There are a lot of method of email spoofing, that I will discuss in my upcoming post. Now, coming to the main topic.Imagine you got a mail, now you want to know where did it came from. So, what to do:
- login to your gmail account.
- Open the email you want to track down
- Click on reply button and then on show original button.
the IP address in the blue box is of the IP address through which this mail was sent to you. Just copy the address. It will give the detailed information about the IP.
- Now, go to http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup and type the IP address and click on IP address lookup.
2 comments:
nice tips to trace an email, specially when it is from any suspicious sender.
Thanks for sharing, you make it easier, but more preferable is to use the tool https://iplocation.io/, that not only gives you a better estimation of the location but also gives you the data from several geolocation databases as well.
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