can you trace an email

[buggalugs]

WinstonWolf said:

buggalugs said:

Check the exif information on the picture, it might be geotagged

This is probably the best chance assuming it hasn't been stripped, you probably won't get much traceable info from the IP in the headers.

you can get really lucky and get a camera serial number or something else unique in there, then you can find other pics with the same info...

[Durzel]

EXIF data won't be much use if the girlfriend or then-boyfriend or whatever is actually going on here took the photos willingly.

It's unclear what the actual point of this email is/was, and the OP hasn't really shed any light on it...

Are the photos the GF took whilst with the current BF, your work colleague - as in, were they acquired illicitly by a third-party who is now using them as blackmail (?)

Or are they photos taken when the GF was with a previous BF? If so, the source would tend to be pretty obvious, wouldn't it?

[WinstonWolf]

buggalugs said:

WinstonWolf said:

buggalugs said:

Check the exif information on the picture, it might be geotagged

This is probably the best chance assuming it hasn't been stripped, you probably won't get much traceable info from the IP in the headers.

you can get really lucky and get a camera serial number or something else unique in there, then you can find other pics with the same info...

My mum sent me an old picture of my Dad the other day. I've just looked as the EXIF and I can tell that she took a picture of it with her old iPhone sat in the summerhouse in her garden. So I've stripped that out! but you might be able to find the location here:

http://www.findlatitudeandlongitude.com/

[JulianHJ]

jlee said:

Do police take this seriously? Would they go to the trouble to trace the sender?

Yes, revenge porn (if that's what this is) is an offence and people have been prosecuted for it. It's pretty simple to track the sender if they've not been careful.

[twing]

Have you tried searching Facebook with the email address?

[wjwren]

Depends what sort of pictures and situation. If it's pictures uve taken to put on a website yourself and someone had just resent them then I doubt the police would do much. It they have been taken withouto your consent or stolen then matter for police.

[weeboot]

Revenge pawn, as it's now termed, has been successfully prosecuted in the UK recently. If there's enough evidence and proof of sender then it is worth pursuing.

[Order66]

In answer to the inital question - no, you can't get the IP address of the sender from a hotmail email. Hotmail stripped all this information out years ago.

So to get it you would need to:
1. Get some sort of court order to get Microsoft to release the senders IP
2. Get another court order to trace an IP to a person via the ISP (if it wasn't a public internet connection)

So in short - you will never trace it.

[wjwren]

There was a lady in the paper while ago taking someone to court - she had a been a model of some description and had sent people video's in return for money. Then the customer of said video decided to upload it on a website. I dont think she got very far as it was deemed 'public' the moment she sent it to him.

[Sgt Bilko]

90% of people don't know how to cover their steps and another large proportion are creatures of habit and may have left a trace elsewhere, so if the cops do investigate it, it will go to a Digital Media Investigator to look at. Assuming it is a crime of course.

Just pinging a picture of his g/f out drinking when she was supposed to be working late and saying, "oooo look what I've just seen" isn't worth anyone's time.

We need more info on what you terms to be "compromising" and what the email said.

[_dobbo_]

jlee said:

can you force an isp to give you the information? By law / court etc?
I'm unsure as to the picture content but believe it was candid pictures she took for her bf etc

If I understand correctly, she took candid pictures of herself, sent them to her boyfriend, and now someone else has also sent those pictures to her boyfriend?

So the question you are asking is who is this person and how did they get the pictures?

If so, is he (the boyfriend) sure she didn't also send them to someone else?

[Sgt Bilko]

jlee said:

can you force an isp to give you the information? By law / court etc?
I'm unsure as to the picture content but believe it was candid pictures she took for her bf etc

You can't request this info from an ISP. Only under RIPA can investagotory agencies obtain it. I would start by asking if they are stored on the cloud anywhere (iCloud for ex) and change her password!

[Sgt Bilko]

Today's Sky news have run an article on the matter Revenge porn offenders face tougher penalties under proposals
http://news.sky.com/story/revenge-porn-offenders-f...