Computer Tricks and Secrets

You have received an email from a person with whom you have never interacted earlier and thus, before you take the conversation forward, you would like to do some research on the Internet to know more about that person. How do you do this without directly asking the other person? Google is the most obvious place for performing reverse email lookups (just Google for the email address) but if that person doesn’t have a website or if they have never used their email address on public forums, Google will be of little help. No worries. If you only know the email address of a person and nothing more, here are some ways that may help you uncover the identity of that unknown email sender. Find the Person Behind an Email Address #1. Find the sender’s location Open the header of the email message and look for lines that say “ Received: from ” and are followed by an IP address in square brackets. If there are multiple entries, use the IP address mentioned in the last entry. Now paste the IP addre