How to find out where an email is coming from

 

With so many scam emails getting into our mailbox, sometimes we wonder if the sender is legit or it’s a scam. So, how to find out where an email is coming from? You can’t find out who is sending the email, but you can easily find out where is it originates from.

Here is the procedure;

If you see a suspicious email, before you open it, Click on it with your right mouse  button, than at the bottom, click -Properties. Than at the top, click -Details.

Highlight all the text in the window and copy.

Now you open up your internet browser (Internet explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, whiever you are using), and type in the search box, Email Trace,

click on the first among the results and find the box where it says something like “tracking email header, copy email header) and paste the copied Email Details in to the box and click on “email trace” below the box.

This will bring up a window where it shows where the email originated from.

(Or you can just click on this link; Email Trace and paste your previously copied email Details into the blue box and below the box click on “trace email”)

If it’s a gmail or one of these big mailservers, you ususally get their address. But if it’s one of the usual email providers, like your ISP (Internet Service Provider) you get the location of the nearest switching station and than you know, the person who sent you an email, lives somewhere nearby and you also just discovered, how to find out where an email is coming from.