Chasing IP Addresses & Emails

There has been alot of interest this week in chasing IP addresses and email information. Just wanted to lend some help.

An IP is an address on the Internet. Just like an address on the street. When you type in a web address you see letters. Computers see the numbers. The IP numbers are issued to certain networks. IE Yahoo, Google, Comcast, etc..

Emails can be traced by the headers on the emails. Headers contain IP addresses of the networks that they go through.

If you look further you can even get latitude and longitude of the network that was logged on to where the email was sent from.

Once you trace down the network, if you have a legal need or warrant you can track down the user name that was logged on and possibly a residence address. Now remember, if you log on from an air card you could be anywhere.

Check this website for help on tracing emails and IP addresses. They have made this pretty much dummy driven. It will also give you information on masking who you are so that you can hide your location.

http://www.ip-adress.com/ipaddresstolocation/

I would like to wish everyone a Safe & Happy New Year!! See you on the other side.....

Patrick L. Baird
Private Investigator