How To Find Owner Of An Email Address

Have you received an email claiming that you have won some prize or amount in a lucky draw? Before you trust the mail and sending your reply, it’s important that you properly identify the person who is associated with this email.

In this post, we’ll go over some tips and tricks to reveal the possible person behind the email address which have sent you an email.

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1. Pipl.com

This tool will really save you time and also provide you the flexibility to search a person by using multiple options (name, email, phone number) and you can get the results within seconds.

2. Google It

If you have received an email claiming that you have won a prize then you should search on Google as the first step. If it is a scam or fraud, then there is a strong chance that you will find some information about it.

3. Use Facebook

Currently, Facebook has approximately 2 billion active users and an email address is required to become a registered Facebook user. So, there is a strong chance that you may find the owner of email address through Facebook. Simply, copy and paste the email address into the search bar of Facebook and hit the search button.

4. Locate Via IP Address

An email does not only contain the information in the content, as it also contains the IP address of the sender as well. You can use this IP address to determine the country and city of the sender to get a better idea of his/her location.

To extract the IP address, open up the email header by clicking on the ‘Reply’ button and then click on ‘Show Original.’ Once the email header is accessed then locate Received: From and you will find the IP address nearby it. Copy the IP address and paste it in IP address search bar of www.IPLocation.net to find the origin of the email.

5. Search Via Picture

If you have found a picture of the person through the techniques discussed above, you can find more information about that person by using Google image search.

First of all, upload the image by using the small camera icon on the right side of the search bar. After uploading the image, click on the search button and it will show all the websites, blogs and other online sources where that particular image is used.

Indicators Of Whether It’s Legit:

• The email address of the sender doesn’t match the website address of an organization
• The email is sent from a free web mail address
• The email contains a sense of urgency regarding your reply or response
• The email contains a website link and you are asked to click on it. This link may be forged or may appear similar to the proper address (a minor spelling mistake makes it different altogether) of some legitimate web site and asks you to enter your personal information such as username, passwords, etc.

These points will help you to make an educated guess that whether the sender is a real person or a fake person pretending to be real.