Track E-mail

[HackinCowboy]

Recently a friend of mine recieved an e-mail from someone using a hotmail account. The e-mail was sent to her and quite a few other people she knows personally. So it's obviously someone that knows her. The e-mail was VERY threatening and degrading. Is there anyone by you can track down the sender by looking at the e-mail headers. There doesn't appear to be any false information in there. Any ideas?

[dj4uk]

Report them to hotmail but I would doubt that hotmail would release a name.
In any case there is no guarantee that the name used to sign up for the account is real. So really you don't have much of a chance of finding out who it is.

[HackinCowboy]

I'm looking more toward bypassing hotmail and using their IP. Is there anyway from that standpoint?

[Confused]

People like those accounts from hotmail, excite, email, etc. because of the anonymity that they afford. And if you happen to be in back of a firewall and router, probably pretty hard to trace. Plus someone that is going to send threating mail would set the account up and send the mail from a PC other than their own, unless they are incredible stupid. Maybe best thing she can do is change her email id. and be careful who she gives it to.

[aym]

I recommend you to download the message from hotmail to outlook, then you get the Ip from the message properties, then go to www.samspade.org and get information about the ip.

[dj4uk]

Got to remember if you do get an ip address is may be dynamic and therefore change each time the user logs on.

[HackinCowboy]

I looked at the e-mail properties and found the IP Address. The sender's IP address is the one after where it says "X-Originating-IP:" Correct? I took that IP addy and went to that web site and found a local Cable Internet company owns it. From there i guess I'll just have to contact the Cable Internet provider for the rest of the information. Thanks for all the help.