gmail track, impossible?

[Macdonaldnightrider]

Probably wasting my time on this topic but worth a stab.

Do any IT bofs know if it is possible to track a gmail account to find someone? Received a few emails from who knows who on the work server (work email address) they were complaining about a certain company individual, sensitive information etc etc.

I know it's from google and I'm likely wasting my time as they're smarter with better servers than me, but can one ever track or locate the source of an email address?

daaaaankie

 

[SauRoNZA]

Probably wasting my time on this topic but worth a stab.

Do any IT bofs know if it is possible to track a gmail account to find someone? Received a few emails from who knows who on the work server (work email address) they were complaining about a certain company individual, sensitive information etc etc.

I know it's from google and I'm likely wasting my time as they're smarter with better servers than me, but can one ever track or locate the source of an email address?

daaaaankie

Not a chance.

Your only hope would be correlating the actual email address to something else.

 

[saor]

Copy this code to a .bat file and run it.

@echo off
title Email Tracer


color 0a


echo Please enter the email address:
set /p email=


echo Tracing email address...
for /l %%x in (1,1,9) do (
    echo Processing step %%x of 9...
    ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 > nul
)


echo Analyzing email servers...
for /l %%x in (1,1,5) do (
    echo Checking server %%x of 5...
    ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 > nul
)


echo Verifying email origin...
for /l %%x in (1,1,10) do (
    echo Checking validity %%x of 10...
    ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 > nul
)


echo Email address: %email%
echo Status: Cannot verify source. Address location has been spoofed using ISD-G Ghost Protocol encryption.


pause