| More than half of your life savings could go down the | | | | residential), telephone numbers (both land and |
| drain if you do not fail to treat some of the e-mails | | | | mobile), family background details, marital details, etc. |
| you receive with absolute caution. Internet fraud and | | | | Perhaps, the biggest minus for the search engines is |
| electronic mail scam have both assumed the most | | | | lack of complete report. |
| frightening dimension in recent times. Fraudsters are | | | | Chances are that one or two of your online friends |
| getting smarter by the day, and scam emails have | | | | might just have one or two information that might |
| become the order of the day. There are three or | | | | help you know who the e-mail id belongs to. You |
| more actions you could take when you repeatedly | | | | could talk to them, and who knows if they are |
| receive scam and spam electronic mails in your | | | | equally having a run with the same e-mail id? Your |
| account. You could decide to delete the scam e-mail, | | | | curiosity might just be laid to rest; especially if your |
| ignore it, change your e-mail address, and the most | | | | friend has already performed an e-mail search. In |
| preferable option; lookup email address. | | | | case he has not, I suggest you try a social network |
| Reverse email search websites are springing up | | | | site. |
| everywhere on the internet because of their ability | | | | The databases of social network sites are getting |
| to make information available. Instead of having to | | | | bigger by the day; ostensibly because of the amount |
| repeatedly delete all the spam electronic mails that | | | | of traffic they are pulling everyday. You can lookup |
| are sent into your account, you can find out where | | | | email address without paying a dime on a site like |
| they are from. You can use a search engine, find out | | | | Facebook and MySpace. However, information is |
| from your friends, and use a social network site and | | | | always unreliable with this method. |
| much more. Enter the e-mail address or id of the | | | | On a reverse email search website, you can enter |
| sender and click to start your reverse email search. | | | | the id of the sender and know who is almost |
| Using search engines to lookup email addresses is not | | | | immediately. Though there are many of them these |
| new; and as a matter of fact, sites like Google and | | | | days, please be careful before registering with |
| Yahoo have always made it possible for users to get | | | | anyone of them. Though there are a lot of website |
| some level of information. They operate a simple | | | | where you can trace or find out who an unknown |
| system that allows a user to key in the electronic | | | | e-mail owner is, you may not be able to get the kind |
| mail id of the sender into their search boxes to get | | | | of information you want. You also stand the risk of |
| some details. Some of the basic information they | | | | becoming a victim of scam, and probably end up |
| provide include; names, location (both business and | | | | losing your credit card details. |