How can I find out who the person is sending me phony emails with a yahoo.com address?
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There is a person who claims he lives in the UK emailing me and wanting to buy items that are in the Star Tribune. He doesn’t come through with the money. He did it once a month ago and never bought the item. Therefore the item didn’t sell because I was waiting for him money order. Now he’s doing it again. I think that he has a friend who is doing the same thing because he emailed me this morning wanting the same item that was listed a month ago. Email should not be used as a scam and I’m mad that these people are using it in that way.
August 19th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
well that is the thing about free email eg.. yahoo, hotmail. You don’t have to give real personal info so I suggest you just delete those mails when you get them or hit report as spam
August 20th, 2009 at 9:29 am
check out the message header. You may have to use an external program like thunderbird or outlook to get the email and find this, but your looking for the IP address (it’ll look like this 123.456.789.123). Do a search for a whois tool, and run the IP addy thru it. It may not tell you the persons name, but it can id a general location, as well as the computer’s name.
BTW, any address from england will most likely have a .co.uk suffix on it.