If at a certain moment you have received a message signed with an email that you do not know, you may have to delete it immediately if the topic there is absolutely not interesting for you. Now, if there is something really important in this message but still, you do not recognize the email address provided, you may need to do some research to find out who it belongs to.
A large number of people receive messages signed with a specific email, which could be involving an aspect that violates the security of some of the services that we use on the web, being for example, banking institutions or our credit cards. There are two ways to try to discover who is behind an email, one of them being the one in which we use the IP address.
Search on Google.com for an email address membership
We had previously suggested a few tricks that you can adopt to use the Google.com search engine effectively; right there we had suggested that this search engine has practically everyone registered, being that the first trick that we will mention at this moment.
All you need to do is go to this Google.com search engine and paste there, the email address that you should have previously copied from your message in the inbox. There is a good chance that you will find the owner through different social networks to which perhaps he subscribed. The results could also be null, as many people use some type of disposable email to make their respective advertising campaigns and in the worst case, a completely illegal aspect.
Review the characteristics of the message of this email
We must also refer to what is known as "Social engineering", a situation that has been handled for a long time by those who want to "wrap" a person with suggestive messages; Thus, for example, in the body of the message of this email, something very similar to the following is mentioned:
- Have a link clicked urgently.
- The name of the email owner is somewhat unusual (which is usually before the @ sign)
- The domain name this email belongs to does not represent an organization
- There is some kind of form where you are asked to enter your username and password for a specific environment.
On this last aspect, computer criminals usually try to capture the attention of many victims by mentioning a fortuitous event in one of their bank accounts, requesting an immediate action that in most cases, involves having to go to a domain (other than of the user's banking institution) so that from there, the access password can be modified.
Use Facebook to check email for a message
Currently Facebook is one of the most popular social networks of the moment, being one of the environments where we could go with the aim of trying to find out who said email belongs to. The only thing we need to do is copy it and later have to paste it in the search bar of this social network.
Since most users of the Facebook social network need to use an email to open an account, it is very likely that This e-mail helps us to identify the profile of the person who sent it to us. Of course, there is also the possibility that some of the many methods have been used to create a disposable email, a situation that in this case will not offer us any type of results.
Find the place from where the email was sent to us using its IP address
This turns out to be another interesting alternative to adopt, having only to go towards the message so that we are ready to "respond" to it.
Without having to do so, we must click on the drop-down menu that will be displayed in the upper right part of this area, and must choose the option that says "Show Original"; having done this a new browser tab will open with a large amount of information. The IP of the person who sent us the email will be the one that is next to the message "Received: From", having to copy said data and later, go to the services offered to us IPLocation o youngestsignal.
Using people search service
As a last alternative we will suggest to our readers, who are directed towards the services they offer Pipl o Spokeo and right there they can copy the email address in which they are interested to investigate. A large number of results could appear and among those that would be mentioned mainly, the website, the social network of Facebook, Twitter or Google plus, this in the event that said email has been linked to any of these environments .