How to Find Person Behind the Email Address

You got an email from an unknown sender and now you want to know about the person. You can directly ask via email. But, sometimes we find it hard or due to circumstances, we cannot ask directly to the person. Then how to do know who is behind the strange email?

Internet is the great resource of finding anything. If the person has some online identity and used the email address in some forums and websites, you will easily find information about the person from Google. Simply, write email address in the search box and press enter. You will find so many useful information about the person from Google search. But what if the person never used the email id for any these kind of activity  Google can not help you enough and you need to perform something else.

1. Find the location of the person by Email Headers

First thing which you can do is finding the location of the person. You can easily do it with the help of email header which contains the IP address of the sender. Open the email header and search for the entry “Received: from" followed by the IP address of the person. In case, you find multiple entries, use the last one.
Now paste this IP address in the IP tracing tools and you will get the IP of the person.

But this method has a limitation. If the email has been sent by using GMail's web interface, you will not get the original IP address of the person. As we know that IP addresses are sensitive information and can be used to get the location of a person. Gmail hides sender's IP address information from outgoing mail headers.

2. Use Identity Search Tools

Pipl is a nice identity search tool which can help you in finding a person. Identity search tools are used to find the online identity of a person by his name or email. It will give you the list of all available online profiles, blogs and website that are associated with that email accounts.  It also lists some images so that you get an idea about the person.
With this tool, you can also search all the available profiles of a person from a country with the help of name and country. In most of the cases, this too brings better results

3. Use Facebook Search

Facebook also allows users to search other users by email id. If a person has not blocked website in search results, you can easily find about the person on Facebook. Facebook now has more than 1 billion people so there’s a high probability that the sender may also have a Facebook profile.
If you got the Facebook profile, you will be able to get more information about the person.
But it will not help you if the sender uses different email address for social media accounts.