Trace source

• postinor2

  7 Apr 06, 20:08

  Is it true that when one has disturbance from emails, he/she can make police report and ISP to trace back the source of emails?
• M©+square

  7 Apr 06, 20:14

  CAn.
  
  But make sure you don't have pirated softwares installed or unlawful documents in your PC.
• postinor2

  7 Apr 06, 20:16

  reason being?
• M©+square

  7 Apr 06, 20:19

  Originally posted by postinor2:

  reason being?

  you can try and then let us know
• postinor2

  7 Apr 06, 20:24

  any idea how they trace then
• Fatum

  7 Apr 06, 20:30

  Originally posted by postinor2:

  any idea how they trace then

  such things are taught in 3rd or 4th year computer science classes bro ...
  
  someone's mailbombing your inbox ? .... or you're just being bugged by spam ? ....
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Apr 06, 23:58

  Originally posted by postinor2:

  Is it true that when one has disturbance from emails, he/she can make police report and ISP to trace back the source of emails?

  You can trace it yourself, provided you can information from his email. The email header usually reveals a lot, and if you know how, you can trace it.
  
  Anyway, most people in Singapore uses dynamic IP addresses, meaning, even if you managed to trace, the most you can get out of it is their ISP.
  
  I'm not quite sure whether you can report police. Unless the person causes damage to you, nobody bothers to make a police report.
• postinor2

  8 Apr 06, 01:36

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  You can trace it yourself, provided you can information from his email. The email header usually reveals a lot, and if you know how, you can trace it.
  
  Anyway, most people in Singapore uses dynamic IP addresses, meaning, even if you managed to trace, the most you can get out of it is their ISP.
  
  I'm not quite sure whether you can report police. Unless the person causes damage to you, nobody bothers to make a police report.

  So you are saying it would be difficult to trace the person?
  But through police and using that to report to ISP, its possible to trace exactly who what and where right?
• ndmmxiaomayi

  8 Apr 06, 01:47

  Originally posted by postinor2:

  So you are saying it would be difficult to trace the person?
  But through police and using that to report to ISP, its possible to trace exactly who what and where right?

  If you do it yourself, it will be difficult. Those that offer tracing only trace all the way till the ISP. Your ISP can do more for you if you report to them. But if the attacker happens to be using another ISP, chances of your ISP helping you is little. It's their policy to keep customer's data a secret. Unless a crime has been committed, otherwise, the furthest your ISP and you can go is tracing which ISP is that person using.