Get ipaddress of sender

This article deals with how to find the ipaddress of the person whom you receive an email from and what is the benefit of knowing this information.

How to find the ipaddress of who send you the email.
If you google keywords "find out ip address of sender" you will find many links on how to find the ipaddress of the sender. Below are a few links.
outlook express and microsoft outlook
yahoo and gmail and hotmail


How can knowing the ipaddress help
1] You can get an idea of the geographical location from where the email was sent.
Read article to find out how

2] Reliability of source. Scammers usually use ipaddresses that are proxy servers or a public use computer [example university computer or library] in quiet a few cases these ipaddress are blacklisted. You can google the entire ipaddress and if blacklisted it will usually say so.
3] Most antiscam sites list ipaddresses. So if a particular ipaddress is being used by scammers or spammers than the search engine should pick up the links to these sites . Very useful if a single user is registering hundreds of profiles but his ipaddress will stay the same.


Pitfalls
1] Ipaddress can be spoofed but this is a difficult thing to do.
2] AOL uses proxy servers So with aol users all you will get is the ipaddress of the AOL server and not the actual ipaddress of the users computer.

This is a brief guide and not meant to be comprehensive.