If you have been getting email from an unknown sender, it is completely understandable that you would want to take time to research more about these emails and uncover who is behind those emails. Sometimes emails from unknown senders are mysterious, and sometimes they are just plain vulgar or annoying, too. Either way, if you want to know who is sending you emails, you do have that ability. The first step to uncovering the identity of your sender is to research the IP address of the sender. The IP address is a unique number that identifies the computer where the sender sent the emails from.
So just how do you go about finding that IP address? From Outlook, open up the email that you are curious about, and then click on “View.” From this screen, then click on “Options.” Go to the “Internet Headers” box and choose “top.” From this page, you can go to the “Received from” data to see the IP address. This is a series of numbers that may be inside parentheses.
Once you have the IP address, you can find any number of free IP search tools on the web. You just have to copy that IP address and plug it into one of the search tools online, which should return the name of the person who owns the computer where the email was sent from. You should keep in mind that sometimes different people will have access to one machine, so the name registered with the IP address may not necessarily be your recipient, but it will definitely get you one step closer to uncovering the identity of who is sending you those emails. As you can see, this process is fast and easy, and it likely will just take you a few minutes to uncover this information about the sender of those emails.
