Phishing scams could be
v Emails inviting you to join a Social Group, asking you to Login using your Username and Password.
v Email saying that Your Bank Account is locked and Sign in to Your Account to Unlock IT.
v Emails containing some Information of your Interest and asking you to Login to Your Account.
v Any Email carrying a Link to Click and asking you to Login.
Prevention against Phishing
v Read all the Email Carefully and Check if the Sender is Original
v Watch the Link Carefully before Clicking
v Always check the URL in the Browser before Signing IN to your Account
v Always Login to Your Accounts after opening the Trusted Websites, not by Clicking in any other Website or Email.
Email Tracing
v Tracing an Email means locating the Original Sender and Getting to know the IP address of the network from which the Email was actually generated.
v To get the information about the sender of the Email we first must know the structure of the Email.
v As we all know the travelling of the Email. Each message has exactly one header, which is structured into fields. Each field has a name and a value. Header of the Email contains all the valuable information about the path and the original sender of the Email.
v For tracing an email Address You need to go to your email account and log into the email which you want to trace after that you have to find the header file of the email which is received by you.
ü You will get Source code of the email.
v For Rediffmail-
v For Yahoo mail-
v For Gmail-
Now see from bottom to top and the first IP address you find is the IP address of the sender.
Once you have the IP Address of the sender, go to the URL www.ip2location.com and Find the location of the IP Address.
And you are done we have traced the person.....
And from where he had sent the email.
