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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Tracing an e-mail address Post 84237 by Sergiu-IT on Friday 23rd of September 2005 03:02:39 AM

09-23-2005

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Originally Posted by denverd0n

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I thought I'd start here. Not really a Unix question, but I'm hoping the gurus here can help me in an area I know little about.

Someone got one of my credit card numbers. Tried to use it to charge a bunch of stuff over the internet. The company called me to confirm the order, because they thought something about it was suspicious. They gave me the e-mail address of the person who tried to use my card number.

My question is, what can I find out from the e-mail address? Is there a way to trace it back to the thief? Or at least to find out who his ISP is? Anything? Some website somewhere that would explain this kind of stuff?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Hi !
There is a little trick you can do... send him an e-mail... something like "Hi, dude! Whazzup ? Long time no seen...", and send it with an return receipt request. When the return receipt (or his answer) will come to you, you can see in the e-mail header the IP address from where he sent you that e-mail. After that, with "traceroute IP" you can make an ideea where he is... or, at least, you can find his ISP.
Anyway, it's not the best solution, but it's a good point to start...
Good luck!

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