Monday, March 2, 2015
HOW TO IDENTIFY FAKE EMAIL AND TRACE SENDER’S
LOCATION
FAKE EMAILS
Fake emails or
fake mails are those emails which pretend to come from a specific email address
but are sent from some fake email senders. It is not hard to send fake email
address. Anyone can use those free fake email sender tools available online.
These tools ask for the name and email of the sender which you want to show in
the email. emkei.cz is the most popular
fake mail sending website.
So you must know
how to identify whether the email is fake or not.
SEE THE SAMPLE EMAIL SNAPSHOT
See the sender's name and email. It's
lokesh singh from email address mark@facebook.com .
This email is just an example. But
these can be very harmful when sent by spammers. Suppose it pretends to be sent
from your bank and asks for your banking username or password. There are so
many examples which shows why you must know about fake emails.
HOW TO IDENTIFY FAKE EMAIL
It is really simple to identify a fake
email. Click on the down arrow at the right side of the Me as shown in the
snapshot.
Here you will see some details about
the email. If the email comes from a trusted source, you will be able to see
two more fields, Mailed By and Signed By . See the snap below:
This method can be applied only for the
emails coming from big companies like Google, Facebook, LinkedIN, Twitter and other companies which
have their own servers. Email sent from Gmail will be mailed by and signed by
Gmail.
But there are so many small companies
that does not have dedicated server. They use Gmail labs or their own hosting
server. Email coming from those may not show these two fields in mail.So we
need to confirm this by one more way.
NOW WE SEE THE HEADER OF EMAIL
To see the
header of email, click on down arrow at
the right side of the reply icon and click on show original. Now it will open
plain text email content with header information in a new tab.
