OT - Reverse email lookup?

HarryCaray · Jan 28, 2008

Any help anyone has on this subject is MUCH appreciated.

The Director of HR at my place of employment received an outside email over the weekend. The email made untrue and ridiculous accusations about me specifically. I am thinking this is someone I let go a month or so ago. It came anonymous from a gmail account.

Anyone know of a free reverse lookup tool for email?

G.MONEY · Jan 28, 2008

Try this it will cost you a dollar or so.

http://www.intelius.com/reverse-email.html?searchform=email&

HarryCaray · Jan 28, 2008

SEARCH RESULTS
We searched *****@gmail.com and found 0 records

G.MONEY · Jan 28, 2008

I put mine in and had info...So I thought it would work..maybe someone has something better..Sorry

HarryCaray · Jan 28, 2008

G. MONEY said:
I put mine in and had info...So I thought it would work..maybe someone has something better..Sorry

NP, thanks anyway. This fuck has crossed the line, and I have to find him.

weirdian · Jan 28, 2008

Unfortunately the nature of gmail, yahoo, hotmail, and countless other free web-based email accounts, is that they are anonymous, even if you were to see the personal information they entered when they signed up for the account, there's no guarantee that the info wasn't bogus.

For gmail, I would recommend typing the email address into google's search engine and see if there are any pages that reference the email address, you might be able to glean something if they use that email address for anything else, if they just signed up and used it to email your workplace, then there's really nothing you can do....you could also search the username (the email address without the @gmail.com) on google's blogspot or google groups or any other communities that google runs, heck see if they used the same username on MySpace, no guarantees it's the same person, but worth a shot.

HarryCaray · Jan 28, 2008

weirdian said:
Unfortunately the nature of gmail, yahoo, hotmail, and countless other free web-based email accounts, is that they are anonymous, even if you were to see the personal information they entered when they signed up for the account, there's no guarantee that the info wasn't bogus.

For gmail, I would recommend typing the email address into google's search engine and see if there are any pages that reference the email address, you might be able to glean something if they use that email address for anything else, if they just signed up and used it to email your workplace, then there's really nothing you can do....you could also search the username (the email address without the @gmail.com) on google's blogspot or google groups or any other communities that google runs, heck see if they used the same username on MySpace, no guarantees it's the same person, but worth a shot.

Appreciate the response. Tried all that shit. No google hits with the @gmail, and nothing very significant w/out it.

WVU · Jan 28, 2008

Please provide us with the untruths written by said disgruntled ex employee. Thanks

weirdian · Jan 28, 2008

HarryCaray said:
Appreciate the response. Tried all that shit. No google hits with the @gmail, and nothing very significant w/out it.

Well, I'm all out of ideas, unless you wanted to skirt on the unlawful side of things and hire someone to hack into the account and see what personal information (name, address, etc) they entered when they signed up for their gmail account, but like I said, no guarantees any of that stuff is accurate. Also, you didn't get this idea from me.

HarryCaray · Jan 28, 2008

WVU said:
Please provide us with the untruths written by said disgruntled ex employee. Thanks

Claims that I created a hostile work environment, if you catch my drift. Totally false.

docmercer · Jan 28, 2008

HC - ask a mod for my email. I might be able to offer you some assistance.

KT

JustWin · Jan 28, 2008

See if you can get ahold of Susan Fletcher...definitely could help you out.

HerzvanRentle · Jan 28, 2008

The originating IP will be on the mail header.

HarryCaray · Jan 28, 2008

Herz van Rentle said:
The originating IP will be on the mail header.

Don't have the original email. It was sent to corporate HR and then forwarded to my boss. My boss showed me the email on his laptop (didn't forward it) and I saw the username it originated from.

BTW, my boss is behind me 1000%

HarryCaray · Jan 28, 2008

ktvvegas said:
HC - ask a mod for my email. I might be able to offer you some assistance.

KT

Will do.

weirdian · Jan 28, 2008

Herz van Rentle said:
The originating IP will be on the mail header.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm almost positive that is the IP address of google's server which sent the request, not the IP address of the person logged into google sending the email...and if I am wrong, I'd really like to know so that I can start using an anonymizer whenever I use gmail.

Rawpimple · Jan 28, 2008

WVU said:
Please provide us with the untruths written by said disgruntled ex employee. Thanks

I think the employee said Harry had a big penis and could bang just about any chick on the planet.

If there is a more untrue statement than above, please let me know.

Go get em Harry! Dont let them spread those false rumors.

HerzvanRentle · Jan 28, 2008

weirdian said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm almost positive that is the IP address of google's server which sent the request, not the IP address of the person logged into google sending the email...and if I am wrong, I'd really like to know so that I can start using an anonymizer whenever I use gmail.

I cant say for google, but hotmail will definitely send your IP out on the mail header. To be honest I'd be surprised if google didn't.

weirdian · Jan 28, 2008

Just looked it up, hotmail does, as does yahoo, but google doesn't, I knew there was a reason I started using gmail, it wasn't just because of the slick AJAX interface.

lapdance · Jan 29, 2008

HarryCaray said:
Don't have the original email. It was sent to corporate HR and then forwarded to my boss. My boss showed me the email on his laptop (didn't forward it) and I saw the username it originated from.

BTW, my boss is behind me 1000%

don't bend over