Last updated: January 27, 2023
When you receive an email, the message is not the only information sent by the sender. Indeed the email is also composed of a header or a header which contains important data including the geographical origin of the email (through the IP address) and potentially the person who sent it.
To locate an email address, you just have to identify the IP address hidden in the email encoding.
Here I explain to you how to find the sender's IP address using major email address providers.
Find the location of the sender using Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail
Before going into details, it is important to note that the IP address is generally located in the header or header surrounded by square brackets, for example: [128.130.1.1].
Without further ado, here are the steps to follow to locate an email address:
- Log into your Gmail account with your username and password.
- Open email
- To display the header, click on the inverted triangle (or down arrow) next to Reply. Select Show original
- A page will open with some code in it. All you have to do is analyze this code in order to locate the geographical location linked to it.
- Don't worry, you don't have to be a computer genius to complete this task. You just need to use one of the many applications that can be found on the web. I suggest you use https://www.whatismyip.com/email-header-analyzer/ which will analyze the header, extract the IP and finally locate the IP.
- Copy and paste the code and click on "Analyze"to find the IP address and the location of the sender.
- And there you have it, in a few seconds you get the IP address and the geographical location of the sender of the email.
Note that you have to follow the same procedure to locate an email with Yahoo or Hotmail.
Use Facebook to locate the sender of an email
Today, thousands of people around the world are registered on Facebook. So, I think the person who emailed you has a good chance of being on Facebook.
To locate an email from Facebook, nothing's easier:
- Copy the sender's email address and sign in to your Facebook account.
- Now paste the address into your Facebook search bar.
If a person exists on Facebook with the same email address, Facebook shows their profile in the search result. You can then get thelocation of a person by consulting his profile.
Hello, I have been sent an email address from abroad but I will remember if this email address belongs to the person concerned or if it is false I am starting to be afraid
Hello I'm looking for the email address with the one I created my fortnite account I know the ip of my account my I can't find a site that tells us to write our ip address and it gives us the email address so if you find it please contact me.
I do not understand that in 2021, all the means of combating cyber crime of the police and the gendarmerie fail to identify the sender of an email?
Hello. For several weeks, I have been receiving unpleasant and threatening emails. This is not spam! This person seems to know me. The first emails were sent via protonmail addresses therefore untraceable… after a week's silence, the emails resumed but via an inbox.ru address
Is it possible to locate this kind of mailbox?
I no longer feel safe and I have the urge, the need to identify this person.
Thank you in advance !
hello I send an email and I am told that it is an error how to contact this person thank you
Hello, recently the victim of a scam on the right corner, I was able to exchange with the person only by messaging the right corner. Then she sent me her email address to make the payment by PayPal. So is there a way to trace this person somehow? Thank you so much for your help. The sum is not huge but I would at least like to know if there is a way to find it or move on to something else. Thanks again.
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Hello, I have been harassed for a few months now by a person whose identity I do not know but who created a bogus email to contact me, with threatening and intrusive messages. How could I have his IP address, can you help me I feel in danger.
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Hello Sasha,
The first thing to do is file a complaint. For that, look: https://www.demarches.interieur.gouv.fr/particuliers/cyber-harcelement-harcelement-internet
Then, to locate the IP address of that person, there are very many ways but here I am giving you two methods.
The first method is to send this person a booby-trapped email. Once the email sent is read by this person, you will receive an email with several information such as:
All the details and the steps to follow can be found in this tutorial: https://www.www.funinformatique.com/cours/obtenir-lip-dune-personne-a-louverture-du-mail/
And the second method also consists in sending it but from a trap link which allows when this person clicks on it to know his IP address and to determine his approximate location.
For more details, read this article: https://www.www.funinformatique.com/cours/trouver-adresse-ip-quelquun-facebook-instagram-discord/
Hello, I would absolutely like to know who owns this gmail address.
militaryservice710@gmail.com I did so much research I did not arrive
I prrdu nearly 6000euros I have been in contact with this person on Hangouts since October. He now asks me to receive a volis which is a safe with 4 million dollars he pretends to be a 4 star general of the American army. I would like you to help me identify it at several Gmail addresses
Hello Ana,
Can you tell us what payment method did you use to send him this amount of money?
By iTunes Cards and
Steam and he wants me to receive a safe that contains 4 million dollars
but I have to give about 11.500 dollars via a bank so I have the coordinates.
In this case, I advise you to go to the police station or the gendarmerie near your home to file a complaint. Because the hacker always hides behind a VPN to make victims. It will therefore be impossible to locate its real IP address.
For more info, check out this article: https://www.economie.gouv.fr/cedef/recours-arnaque-internet
Hello actually I believe it is using TLS may I be able to identify it
thank you for the information
Good night
Ana
Hello,
Can we locate an email address with Icloud?
Cuckoo ! 🙂
Great article! I just have one question, from my Outlook account I sent myself an email on Gmail and by proceeding as explained, I can't get back to my IP address (a priori, I don't live in Dublin :p ).
However, you wrote that using Outlook, we should be able to read the IP?
Thank you!
Salam akhi ahmed,
Thank you for your assistance, it's important to me, I've been looking for a tip for a long time to find a woman with whom I spent 10 years and I would like to surprise again.
Ahmed I did not find the option to display the original on Hotmail either on Gmail may be the mobile dislike blocks
Hello, my Facebook page has been hacked. The person who hacked my page changed the email address to a gmail.com address Can I find out who is behind this address? Thank you for your help.
Hello, I wanted to know if it was possible to find the IP address from an email address without using these methods because I have the email but I have never received an email from this person. It's the only information I have on her and it's urgent. If you could help me as soon as possible please.
thank you in advance
Since an email address is not attached to any IP address, it is impossible to do that. You have to use another means.. What is your problem?
Hello, I would like to know if you have found the solution to your problem? and if you managed to find out more because I think I have a problem identical to yours thank you
But on recent versions of gmail there is no Show Original feature, how to do in this case
IP address location sites only locate … the internet service provider, not the user. The only way would be to attack the ISP's database… But that's illegal.
Hello,
As far as I'm concerned, I just wanted to know if it was possible to locate someone, just with his email address, I don't have an IP address, but only to know the city, or even just the department ??Thank you in advance for your answer, Sandlaba
The simple fact of using an email client, rather than going through webmail, would be enough to obtain the email address of the person's box? interesting...i'll give it a try.