hi i need to help in tracing a email address to confirm verification as to whom they really who they say they are.......

Is there anyway this can be traced?????

is it the ISP????

Hi prongs_69, welcome to SAF

It's very difficult to track back an e-mail sender today, because they normally uses proxies, so you'd never really know from where it comes.

In the Net, there is not really any way to be sure of the sender...unless you want to start a process, which will cost you a max and involves some specialized tools and authorizations.

Chris

Especially if the purpose for this is to catch spammers .... they'll find any domain that's open to sending trash from and sent if from there. They'll also spoof the return addresses (or even make them random).

The resultant effect is that some poor unsuspecting soul starts picking up bounces from mail s/he never sent in the first place, or your backtracking leads you to someone who never sent the mail in the first place

But a good place to start is to read the headers from the mail sent .... that should show IP addresses. If you can get the IP addresses and check them against a database such as Domain Tools and check to see whether the sending domain is the same, then that might get you some of the way there.