Everyone uses email these days. It is a quick and easy way to communicate with anyone all over the world. But unfortunately, dishonest people like to use emails to spam you or to scam you. Some of these emails will promise you a lot of money or ask you to verify your bank account. In essence, what these spammers are doing is collecting your private information in an attempt to steal money from you. If you think that you are receiving these types of emails then you need to learn how to track an email address. If you can learn how to do this, you may be able to find the person that is trying to collect your personal information and have the authorities take care of them.

The first step in learning how to do a reverse email search is to learn the components of an email address. This is how you will find the clues that will reveal the address of the malicious email.

The first part of an email address is the header. This is the most important piece of information that will provide you with the clues that you need to trace an email. So let’s look at a header more closely.

It is important to note here that if you don’t know how to uncover the headers in your emails, then you need to do a search online that will tell you specifically how your email provider conceals these headers. Once you find out how to reveal the headers in the email, then you can begin to look for the information that will help you track an email address.

After you have figured out how to open the header, look for the part that says received from. This section will have a “from and by” area. The “from” part is the machine that is sending the message and the “by” part is the machine that is accepting the message.

Next, you need to look for the IP address in the “from” section of the email header. This will be a series of four numbers that are separated by periods. Once you have the IP address you can use this information in combination with a reverse DNS lookup service. There are many free to use DNS lookup services on the Internet. This service will show you who the user’s ISP or employer is.

The great news is that there are also services online that can provide you with the city and state that the ISP address is located in. Once you have your hands on this information, then you can decide if you want to take action against the malicious email senders.

That is the basics of how to do a reverse email search. On occasion, it will not be helpful if the sender is using a economizer that will cloak the IP address. Spammers will often place fake “received from” headers in the emails that will make it almost impossible to be able to track an email address. But if you have access to the right information, you can learn how to do a reverse email search.

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