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Need help finding identity of email address
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:51 am
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:51 am
I belong to a board of directors of a non-profit org. All of the board members recently received an anonymous email that was threatening in nature. Any relatively inexpensive methods of identifying either who owns the email address or at least from where it originated?
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Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:58 am to purpngold
There are some services that you can send an email back to the person and get the IP of where they opened it. Usually it is an image they have to open up. You have to hope whatever mail app they are using opens the image and that they aren't VPNing or something else to make them anon. Not like you will get much from an IP either though.
Why not just take it to the cops if you think it's legit?
Why not just take it to the cops if you think it's legit?
This post was edited on 9/10/18 at 10:04 am
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:58 am to purpngold
If it's threatening you should report it to the police. What are are you planning to do if you figure out how to analyze the email header, subpoena the subscriber info?
Posted on 9/10/18 at 10:21 am to armytiger16
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If it's threatening you should report it to the police.
this, could speed up any other processes
Posted on 9/10/18 at 10:26 am to purpngold
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inexpensive methods of identifying either who owns the email address
if they went to the effort to send an anonymous threatening email then they also likely created this as a throwaway account that will be difficult to match to a person unless they're actively logging into it and you can get their ISP to capture the IP addresses being used.
in short, there's always a way to track this down but you will have many legal hoops to jump through that the government doesn't have to worry about when tracking a terrorist's activities.
everything you need to identify them is in place; however even with the police involved you're looking at a long haul to get legal access to those records.
This post was edited on 9/10/18 at 10:27 am
Posted on 9/10/18 at 12:37 pm to purpngold
^^what he said^^
Get the header information. Lots of good info available of the sender in the header.
Get the header information. Lots of good info available of the sender in the header.
This post was edited on 9/10/18 at 12:38 pm
Posted on 9/12/18 at 11:25 am to 9001
Can someone explain what the “header” would be in the email if I’m looking at it via my phone? I’m also being threatened through this site from a random poster, in more ways than one.
Posted on 9/12/18 at 12:44 pm to emboslice
what email system are you using?
if gmail, you simply click on the email and click on the "..." and say "show original" and you get the ugly old clunky 1990s-era ascii email with all the juicy header info right there.
i'd post a sample of an email in my inbox but i'm afraid there are too many personally-identifying things in there and i don't trust you frickers.
if gmail, you simply click on the email and click on the "..." and say "show original" and you get the ugly old clunky 1990s-era ascii email with all the juicy header info right there.
i'd post a sample of an email in my inbox but i'm afraid there are too many personally-identifying things in there and i don't trust you frickers.
Posted on 9/12/18 at 12:50 pm to purpngold
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I belong to a board of directors of a non-profit org. All of the board members recently received an anonymous email that was threatening in nature. Any relatively inexpensive methods of identifying either who owns the email address or at least from where it originated?
Grab the email header to verify that the displayed email address is the actual address.
Use this site to grab more info on the MX records (the internet records that specify where the domain is hosted):
LINK
An example of info gleaned:
This post was edited on 9/12/18 at 12:51 pm
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