Receiving unkown email

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Hello evryone, I have a very urgent and important question to ask, I hope that you can be helpful in answering my question. I would like to know how can you find the sender's location via ip address. Furthermore, I am curious to learn if the sender can fake her/his ip address? Since I think the ip address that I get from the sender email is misleading. Please if you know anything about the topic do not hesitate to leave a comment,.

thank you in advance
 
You can't find someone's location with IP address yourself. That is something for authorities to do through the phone companies. The ISPs will have billing information that is protected under privacy laws. If you are receiving strange "unknown" emails the steps to take are immediate deletion even blocking the sender.

Often I-Worms or trojans duplicate themselves by sending themselves out under an alias namely the host address of the infected machine. The simple click to highlight the incoming mail and choosing the block sender option seen on the message dropdown menu in Outlook Express takes care of that fast. For other online accounts see if the block sender option is available.
 
PC Eye is correct. Even if you have a valid IP, you can only trace it to a very approximate geographical area.

Yes, it is possible to fake an IP address, but discussion on how that is done is not permitted on these forums.
 
most of mail service use proxy server so you can't know the IP of sender
chatting or even forum service is the same
 
As explained earlier the option to "block sender" along with setting mail rules in the email tools(if offered) section of the account is the thing to be looking at. With some regular ISP provided not free mail accounts the option to block entire domains is one thing to look into. In other words that blocks "everything" coming from a particular server. Treat it like spam or an I-Worm and simply click block sender, block domain, delete.
 
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