LiveMSNUsers

Did you know you can find out the identity of anyone sending you an email? By doing a "reverse email search", you can email search Hotmail, AOL, MSN, or any other email provider and obtain the identity of the person sending you emails. There are several reasons you may find email searching useful.   First, it enables you to find family members, friends, classmates, or other acquaintances. How? The best email search engines allow you to enter either an email address or a name. This allows you to enter a name and obtain the email address of the person you are trying to find. Once you have their email address, you can contact them personally.

Second, it enables you to find out who is spamming you and report them. By doing a reverse email search, you can enter the email address and obtain the address and phone number of the person sending the spam. This allows you to either contact them personally or turn them in for spamming.   Third, it allows you to find out who is stalking you or your family members. There are a lot of creeps who send malicious or threatening emails to people they want to hurt. What they don't realize is you can find out their identity very quickly and easily. Once you have their information, you can turn them in to the proper authorities. But save the emails they sent you, as you will want those as evidence in case you need to go to court!

So how do you do a reverse email search? If you are trying to find out who sent you an email, the best place to start is with the sender's email provider. For instance if the sender's email is from a Hotmail account, do an email search on the Hotmail website and see if you can find results that way. You can also enter the address into the search engines (like Google, Yahoo, or MSN) and see if you pull anything.  Another option is to find an email search site--some are free and some charge a nominal fee. Unfortunately, the free searches generally don't yield all the information you need.

For instance, you might not be able to obtain an address or phone number of the person, and some don't even give you the correct name. It is easy for people to opt out of their information being made public, which can make finding them in certain databases difficult.  Plus, it is simple for people to register emails under false names. Most of the free email search site only access user controlled databases, meaning the information you obtain is not authentic.

If you want to be confident that the information in your reverse email search is accurate, there are sites that do a more advanced search for a very small fee (usually about $20-25 for unlimited searches). These sites have access to numerous databases and obtain accurate, authentic information about a person, even if the person has tried to falsify information.  These sites not only search databases, but also the social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Flickr.  Therefore, if you are a serious searcher who wants accurate results,  I would recommend investing a small sum of money and getting a lifetime membership on one of the premium email search sites.  Over the long run, it will save you time, and you will get better results.

About the Author:

Search for emails by entering the individuals name or find the sender of an email by entering the email address. "Great Tool but don't abuse it" EMAIL FINDER