How to analyse headers?

Voyager2002

Hi,

I have had an email message, and would like to use the headers to find out where it was sent from: knowing which country would help a lot. The message was sent from a Yahoo account.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

(There is a very serious money-related reason for needing to know this: I shall share the full story at a later date.)

Bermuda_John

im not following the question 100%

robredz

You haven't had an email saying you have won a lottery from Microsoft or someone else have you? Or someone offering a 419 scam?

If you have see here:

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lotterysamplelist.php

tdlwebs

Just ran a quick search and found http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/newsletter/adn29/headers.html - I think it might have the info you need.

Voyager2002

For post 3, no, there is a serious reason for wanting to know which country the person is really in now.

davb

There is a free online tool here which should tell you basic info.

Bermuda_John

superb davb

SarahMoon

davb wrote: »

There is a free online tool here which should tell you basic info.

Are you on 419 eater aswell?

OP thats the best tool out there

computershack

Voyager2002 wrote: »

For post 3, no, there is a serious reason for wanting to know which country the person is really in now.

If you think looking at the message headers or even having an IP address is going to tell you that, you're deluding yourself. You, I and everyone on the internet can log onto free email servers anywhere in the world from anywhere else. Access it via a proxy server and you can appear to have sent it from elsewhere too.

For example:
I am in the UK. I set my internet browser to use a proxy server in the USA. From my home, I access a Yahoo account I've set up in Australia.

As far as your email account is concerned, I have sent it from a Yahoo.com.au address. As far as Yahoo is concerned, it originated in the USA. And unless the USA proxy server host gives up the connection details, thats where your trail ends. If I really wanted, I could use something like Tor and you've got no way in hell of knowing where its come from.