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Reading Spam email headers

Depending on what mail program you are using there is a way to track down spammers and the spam mail senders address by reading the complete header usually hidden from view until you click on the email options within the actual message itself.

For example, if you are using outlook and have opened a suspicious spam mail message and want to find out more information then you would want to click View and go to Options and look at Internet headers at the bottom of the options page. This is where you can find information on who and where the message came from. A word of caution though as most spam messages will contain fake addresses intended to fool you as to who and where the message was sent from. An example of the header would look like this:

(these are ficticious mail names and ip addresses are blocked with xx.xx to simulate an ip address.)

Return-Path: Blank@toprotectinnocent.com>

Received: from the lamestmail (lamestmail.com [216.174.xx.xx]) - - -

by worst.lamestmail.com (7.12.9/3.12.9) with ESMTP id iA7J84p7014538 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 11:08:04 -0800 (PST)

Received: from [127.0.0.1] (000dbc101be8.lamestmail.com [161.191.xx.xx])

by lamest-mail.com (8.32.8/8.122.8) with ESMTP id 123M0tCm033132 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 14:00:20 -0800 (PST)

Normally, we can start reading the header from the bottom up as it went through the different mail locations. Notice the "Received" from lamestmail.com and the ip address 161.191.xx.xx. This is where we would start a "whois" or a traceroute to find out who sent the spam mail and who MR. "Blank" is.

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