Email is one of the most popular means of communication. However, the possibilities of the Internet make it possible to exchange messages not only between acquaintances, but also to receive letters from unknown addresses. In this regard, there is a need to know the person who wrote the message.
Instructions
Step 1
Carefully study the "From" field in the email you receive. As a rule, it contains enough information to identify a person - this is his name and mailing address.
Step 2
Check the name first. To do this, use search sites. Of course, if a person is not in any way a public person, you either will not find information about him, or you will find several dozen people with the same name.
Step 3
Social networks can help to achieve greater efficiency in this case. Firstly, a huge number of users are registered in them, and secondly, the search can be carried out according to a large number of criteria, starting from gender and age, ending with place of residence and personal interests. In addition, a significant part of information on social networks is publicly available, including photographs, which will allow for better search results.
Step 4
Don't rely on just one social network, use multiple sites. In addition, some of them have a convenient feature: search for people by mail contacts. Add the address to be checked to the mailbox contact list and then search the social network.
Step 5
If the name in the "From" column in the email you received clearly has nothing to do with the person's real name, analyze the sender's address. Check it out with search engines. It is possible that the sought-after person somewhere left his address for communication and signed with his real name. And you can already check it.
Step 6
Pay attention to the second part of the address, namely the one after the @ sign. If this is not the address of one of the common mail services, it is worth checking it out. Perhaps this is the personal page of a person or the Internet representation of the organization in which he works.
Step 7
Another option is to use social engineering. Register a new mailbox and write a letter to the verified address. Try to interest the recipient and, under some pretext, find out his real name. The main thing is not to cross the line of the law.
