Monday 20 June 2016

how to trace location of sender on gmail

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You got many emails from many peoples and from around the whole world. And sometime you even got emails from people who are unknown to you. It could be spam or phising pages. But I will tell you a simple trick to know trace location of email sender. Many emails services like yahoo mail, gmail, rediff mail etc. provide you the access to get header from the email. After getting header of sender’s email, we can use many online email header tracing services like ip2location.com to get location and ip address of sender.

Ok first of all. Let me explain you what is header.

Email Header: - Your email does not contain full information about email. It only contains subject, attachments and message body. So, to get full info, we can use email header. Email header contains information of transmission, message. Ok it’s enough.


Let’s start some tweak.

Step 1- Open the email service you are using. For this tutorial, I am using my email on gmail.

Step 2- Open the email you would like to trace.


Step 3-Click on Show Original just after Reply on the top of message body.

trace location of email sender

Step 4-A new tab will open, showing you the header of email. You can also get ip address of sender in header. Select full header or press CTRL+A and copy it.

trace location of email sender



Step 5-Open the below URL in browser.


Step 6-On the webpage, paste header in Email Header form and click on Lookup button.

trace location of email sender

Step 7-On the next screen, scroll down, and you will see location and other useful information about the sender.

trace location of email sender



Using this trick you can get location of sender of email. So that you can know who is frauder and who is not. When you get spam or viruses from email, use this trick to trace location of email sender.  Please share this post if you liked it. And keep visiting our blog for latest computer hacking tricks.

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