HOW TO GET THE IP ADDRESS FROM AN EMAIL
......An IP Address
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication
Source: Wikipedia
I have been concerned by Emails sent to my friends here at HP. And they suggested a tutorial on how to find the IP address of the sender. IP addresses were assigned to any device connected to the Net.
ARPANET, way back in 1969, wanted to link all the Computers from Our Military in case there could be an attack from a foreign Country(cold war). Eventually they thought it was fine to do the same with our Universities. IP stands for "Internet protocol" therefore IP address is the license plate and location of the terminal where you are working from, in this case my laptop. When I make a comment on any hub, you might have noticed these weird numbers 122:343:300 in shady gray. That tells anyone your actual location and that can help us to find out who is really behind those Emails. There is an army of cheap software engineers that try to get5 hold of our emails to resend crap spam or stupid pills, using your email to resend them to your friends. They get their 10 dollars a day pay, but for them is worth a 200 dollars of food in those poor Countries.
STRAIGHT TO BUSINNESS
YOU OPEN YOUR INBOX MAIL...
In our case we open our mail at Yahoo. and you see the regular Email from a sender. All is cool, headers, hello, take care. But where is the IP that we need to get hold of.
LOOK FOR IT IN THE TOOLS BUTTONS OF ANY EMAIL
This can be disheartening but take it like a task. In the case of Yahoo, we clicked on the More actions button, it can recognized by the little gear pic, like in any cellphone. We look for "VIEW FUL HEADER"
FOR GMAIL ACCOUNTS:
In Gmail you can go to the upper right corner, NEXT TO REPLY, there is a insignificant arrow that will highlight vMORE, a new window will open with options as print, source or mark as unread but you want to be smart today and:
Look for "SHOW ORIGINAL", meaning show the source of the programming.
What is troublesome for the 'newbee'.. is to see all these numbers and crazy programming headers that web designers see and make use of.
OUR TARGET IN THE MESSY LOOKING HTML (hypertext markup language)
In Yahoo, your target is locate this simple sort of equation:
X-Originating-IP: [199.59.148.232]
You are smart enough to look for this X-Originating. Think of using your ATM card for the first time, you get prompted and you just follow the instructions, right?
To give you a little tip, you will find it right at the middle of these chinese words.
In the case of Gmail, is about the same, but you will be shown and Original Email with all its content. You will have to look for something like this
(mail-gy0-f197.google.com [209.85.160.197])
Your needle in the HAYSTACK IS found: 209.85.160.197, paste it and hold on to it
The key is just practice, make mistakes and do it again. No worries.
Now there are thousands of places where you can take this info and paste it in it and after refreshing the site,, you will find and get the city, the map and all you need to know about the sender. The IP above is from tweeter and most likely will show Palo Alto or syllicon valley as the originating address.
To get a quick result we take our "X-Originating-IP: [199.59.148.232]"
to a site like this:
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation
scroll down and look for a paragraph locator:
IP Address to locate: ___________ SUBMIT/
Paste THE SNATCHED IP address (just the numbers) and submit; (REFRESH)
In a matter of seconds you will get what you were looking for.
- LOCATION
- CITY
- FLAG
- COUNTRY OF PROCEDENCE
This video will help us...
Comments
Very informative hub Lord!! This should help many people out!! :)
Lord - thank you! You are brilliant! Even I know I can follow your instructions. I really appreciate this! Not only will I bookmark - but print and keep!
Up and everything!
Great Info lord..thanks so much..I never knew where to find this..Thanks again..
Happy New Year my friend,
Sunnie
Are you sure that is the IP of the person sending the email and not the IP of the email sender? For example, my email is based out of Ireland (yahoo.ie), but I'm in the US. Doing the check you mentioned, I see that my email is coming from Ireland and not where I am currently located (Michigan, USA.)
Just wondering if I'm going wrong somewhere.
Melanie :)
I'll have to take a look again, thanks. :)
Hi Melbel,
Actually you have to look for the original X-originating [] tag...The email Sender will appear too. But you have to learn to differentiate. Your Yahoo.ie, from Ireland will tell us in this kind of machine language, that they were the 'intermediate' email SENDER. Just check again and you will see.."apparently from IP originated at:{}"
in this email..we found the IP in here:
Received: from [92.139.91.61] by nm22.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Jan 2012
But the tunnel reciever was Yahoo.
Yahoo's IP WAS THIS ONE
X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.115.331698
Thanks for your concern MELBEL
LORD
This is VERY helpful. I never realized this could be done before. You are the best and the most helpful hubber with these technical issues. I appreciate all the time you took to help me with my hacker issues and making things easy for me to understand. No blonde jokes.. lol.. Thank you, thank you!!!!
Wow...I knew you were brilliant Lord but I had no idea! I am glad you published this so I can use it in the future. I always worry about responding to emails but now I can check where they're coming from easily.
Discussing something I already knew. LOL! :) Not a problem. I didn't know the Iplocator though, so that did help me for future use. :) Many people will find this very useful, so I marked it useful and voted it up! :) It was very nice of you to help out the ladies who didn't understand, but now do. :) Good job! :)
Tammy Swallow,
What do you mean about no blonde jokes? I know some, but actually I should work on a hub about the Blonde side of the World. I Thanks so much for your smile, your jokes, that bear and his not willing to cooperate with the Rabbi, and above all your kind heart. Who is momma's boy, your kids? Well can you includeme next to them? I can do windows too, you know?
LORD
Cagsil,
This is easier than a kamasutra book. Here you go to the point. On the other one, you have to warm up and do your own testing and the angle in that Trigonometric tangent is too obtuse to get a paradigmatic answer. So, we did this for the ladies..who by now are having a good drink for the new year. Happy New Year Cags!
LORD
HI Ardie!!
Aw! you always comment in a cute way, my redheaded blosoming girl from Ohio. I did this because MissOlive asked us so. By now we knew how to make a quick and useful hub. Thanks for being yourself!
LORD
Hi THERE Sunnie Day,
This was a hub suggested by our friends at FB. We knew what to write and everything..after we got Melbel Blessings(you know?). We explained this to our friends in a very understandable manner.. No blonde jokes for Tammy for now. Thanks Sunnie and have a wonderful new Year!
LORD
Thanks Sunshine 625 for the follow, Congrats! on your 500 Followers. Glad you understood all this mindwrecker. Happy New year my partner in crime!!
LORD
RealHouseWife,
This was an easy hub...just ask Cagsil, but we tried to make it readable for the average friend. I'm happy you understood..and no! No blonde jokes, neither red or blue. Happy New Year and thanks!
LORD
Hi there Poohgranma,
I feel better, knowing that you ladies have understood the main thing, how to hack the IP from a program, that at first might look like a no-no! Happy New Year!
LORD
Very informative, especially for beginners who need well-written advice and instruction, like me!
Gosh, thanks for taking the time to explain!!
Thanks for the great info!
Hello Nancy and picklesandrufus,
We did this tutorial in order to help our friends. We had our basics and we went for it. Glad to be helpful and thanks for stopping by.
LORD
Thanks to you Gypsy Rose!
You are a loyal follower, I wonder if there is an award for that. The best Follower of the year.
LORD
Brilliant, Thanks for this great information that is easy to understand! This is so useful. Bookmarked and thanks for sharing,
Tina
You are welcome Thougfhorce,
We did it in order to hekp our friends to help themselves in this cyber world.
LORD
This is informative and useful. I'm bookmarking it.
Hello Vinaya,
I agree with you. So many predators that want to ge thold of your email and use it as a bridge for spam. We like it and we use it as well. Thanks for stopping by!
LORD
Thank you so much for this hub. I was just needing this info the other night when receiving very nasty comments on some of my hubs. I was able to get the IP address and thanks to some very helpful hubbers I was able to find the location. Still wish I could find out exactly who it was though. Great information to have!
Hi there Angela P,
Sure is a very important hub and it goes straight to business. You don;t need much to learn and is explained step by step. Take care!
LORD
Hi Lord! This one slipped right under the MissOlive radar - must have been the holiday weekend! Guess what? I found this on Digg! Proof that it works! yay!
I'm going to bookmark and try your steps. Looks kinda easy; once I actually learn the steps that is. Thanks for adding the video too! THANK YOU for putting this together - you ROCK! :)
Voted up and sharing!
Great advice, Lord! I had no idea you could do this.. Very useful information!
Thanks for all this great info, Lord. You are brilliant! I've bookmarked it, so I can come back and reread. Voted UP, etc.
This is going to be useful. Thanks for sharing and putting it in such simple words.
I'm bookmarking for future reference.
Voted up.
Thank you MissOLIVE,Praactical Mommy, Mary615 and Rajan JOLLY..MUCH appreciated and glad to see that the word is out for my friends. This is just a little helper especially when we get nasty emails from all over the world. Did you know that they have sweatshops just to try to get your password and resend garbage..like a pill or simply a dieting Email? This is a shame!!
LORD
Thank you very much for this information. Plan to pass it on to others and bookmark for future reference. Will try practicing this and see what I can learn. Rated up, useful and interesting.
Great Hub Lord! I have had a few emails over the years that I wish I had known their origination. *hrrrmmmmffff*
Thank you.. voted Up and useful!
Blessings,
~Lisa
You are welcome Peggy W. and rustic Living(AKA vocalcoach daughter) You ladies deserve a practical explanation..and we did it with much car...like explain it to my mom. See? came out great!
LORD
Thank you for sharing this valuable information. I hope there is no need to look up someone's IP. However, its nice to have a geographical location to some annoying repeat emails. Thanks so much. If not for myself, I am sure there are many people who refuse nonsense from others from time to time. Thanks again for your clear instructions with video. This is great.
You are welcome JEyaraMD,
Is so annoying to recieve a harsh email, and if we warn them that we know where they are ...they will say oops! She/he means businness, bye!
LORD
Excellent hub.. Thanks for giving this information.
You are welcome Fayysbabu,
You can pass it on to your family. For some reason, there is always an issue that comes forward sooner or later. Take care my friend!
LORD
Nice hub...I never think to trace IP address of anyone.Very Helpful
Great info Lord (and I remember how quick you pulled this together) - you are awesome. Bookmarking now!
Hi there Sharyn's slant,
You have good memory then...! We put together this hub, on MissOlive's request, and the rest is History. Thanks for keeping this hub available for you and your loved ones.
LORD
Poohgranma 4 months ago
Thanks for the useful information. I knew how to locate the IP addresses but never knew what to do with them to find where they originated. Back when we used eBay and PayPal a lot - especially Paypal, we'd get several false emails with links to click on and confirm your information. I never did that but I did find the address of where to send these emails and how to provide PayPal with the IP addresses.
A much needed and well written article. Thanks again!