If you only know a person's email and want to know more about him, here are some tricks that will help you learn his name, location, and other details of the sender.
You've received one Email by someone you did not have prior contact with and so before you make the decision to talk to him you would like to do some research online to find out more about this person. How can you do it without having to ask the sender of the email directly?
First of all, let's remind you that people usually leave different things scattered spots them here and there and at different times. You don't remember what he had written back then or what he had revealed about his identity at some point in time. And of course no one is bothered to look for themselves to see how "revealing" they are on the internet.
Also keep in mind that the internet never forgets !!! Everything is sorted into databases that no administrator ever erases. Since, of course, his website is still alive. In this sense, searches of an internet person often make hares. But let's see how we can do it.
Google is our most obvious and first action to conduct a reverse email lookup, but if that person does not have a website or has never used his e-mail address in public forums, Google will not help in particular.
We are sure that until now everyone has done this at least once. But it is not the only solution. So, if you only know one person's email address and nothing more, here are four other ways that can help you reveal the identity of this unknown email sender.
How to Reverse Lookup an Email
# 1. Find the sender's location
Open the email header and look for lines that say "Received: From" followed by an IP address in brackets. If there are multiple entries, use the IP address listed in the last entry.
Now paste the IP address in this tool that finds you trace of the route and you will get a good idea about the approximate location of the sender e-mail (at least for the country of origin).
This trick does not apply to web emails such as gmail, yahoo,
# 2. Reverse Email Lookup with Facebook
Facebook has one billion users and therefore the sender can also have a profile on Facebook.
Unlike LinkedIn and the most social networks, Facebook allows you to search for users with the e-mail address so that your work is easier. Simply paste the person's email address into the search box and Facebook will tell you immediately if there is a profile with that email address or not.
If you are able to locate that person on Facebook, download the profile image and then upload it to Google Images (click on the camera icon in the search box). This works as one reverse image search engine so you can find other social profiles where it can use the same image.
# 3. Check all other social networks
You can use a service like this We know to quickly determine if a profile with a specific name exists on one of the social networks.
If the sender's email address is something like [email protected], there is a possibility that he or she may have created accounts on some other social network, using the same pseudonym "Microulini". Put it on knowem.com for confirmation.
Gmail users can install the add-on Rapportive and find the Twitter and LinkedIn profiles associated with an email address if any of them exist.
# 4. Search for People
Finally, if none of the above tricks work, you should try one search service for people like her Pipl and Spokeo. Both services allow you to run reverse email searches, but Spokeo has a more complete database from Pipl. However, some of the results returned by Spokeo are only available to subscribers.
