Finding the Country of Origin of an Email

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Finding the Country of Origin of an Email

Warren Grant 20

Is there a way to determine the country from which an email was sent? Specifically, I'm trying to figure out if an email I received came from within the UK. Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Dillon Silzer 57,826 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2024-04-28T16:26:28.76+00:00

Hi Warren,

Is this e-mail in your Microsoft 365 environment or are you asking about an e-mail you have no control over?
Warren Grant 20 Reputation points

2024-04-28T17:40:19.7633333+00:00

I'm an Immigration lawyer. A Nigerian client claims that a UK based Nigerian took a lot of money from her and others and made visa applications for them filing any old rubbish instead of ghe genuine documents which they had given to her. The applications were refused on the basis of deception. The clients are banned from the UK for 10 years. They can't touch gge woman who did it because she's in the UK and they can't come here. BUT in each case she created an email address to make the application. That email address was at outlook.com. It is not the email address of the client and in each case it has been closed. If I could show the UK Home Office that the email address had been created from inside the UK and not from Nigeria then we have a hope of being believed. I do not have the knowledge to find this out. I know that people anywhere in the world can do anything but my clients are not so sophisticated and if they would have kept control of the application they would gave filed their genuine documents.
ChristyZhang-MSFT 26,121 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-05-01T06:38:54.2433333+00:00

Hi @Warren Grant ,

Just checking in to see if above information was helpful. If you have any further updates on this issue, please feel free to post back. If you think my reply is helpful to you, please remember to mark it as an answer. Warm thanks.
NORTHON (NASA) 0 Reputation points

2024-11-04T16:58:26.4933333+00:00

https://www.growmeorganic.com/trace-location-of-email-address/

https://blog.ip2location.com/knowledge-base/how-to-trace-an-email-address/

But also...

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/how-hide-ip-address/

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Dillon Silzer 57,826 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2024-04-28T16:26:28.76+00:00

Hi Warren,

Is this e-mail in your Microsoft 365 environment or are you asking about an e-mail you have no control over?
Warren Grant 20 Reputation points

2024-04-28T17:40:19.7633333+00:00

I'm an Immigration lawyer. A Nigerian client claims that a UK based Nigerian took a lot of money from her and others and made visa applications for them filing any old rubbish instead of ghe genuine documents which they had given to her. The applications were refused on the basis of deception. The clients are banned from the UK for 10 years. They can't touch gge woman who did it because she's in the UK and they can't come here. BUT in each case she created an email address to make the application. That email address was at outlook.com. It is not the email address of the client and in each case it has been closed. If I could show the UK Home Office that the email address had been created from inside the UK and not from Nigeria then we have a hope of being believed. I do not have the knowledge to find this out. I know that people anywhere in the world can do anything but my clients are not so sophisticated and if they would have kept control of the application they would gave filed their genuine documents.
ChristyZhang-MSFT 26,121 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-05-01T06:38:54.2433333+00:00

Hi @Warren Grant ,

Just checking in to see if above information was helpful. If you have any further updates on this issue, please feel free to post back. If you think my reply is helpful to you, please remember to mark it as an answer. Warm thanks.
NORTHON (NASA) 0 Reputation points

2024-11-04T16:58:26.4933333+00:00

https://www.growmeorganic.com/trace-location-of-email-address/

https://blog.ip2location.com/knowledge-base/how-to-trace-an-email-address/

But also...

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/how-hide-ip-address/

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ChristyZhang-MSFT 26,121 Microsoft External Staff

Hi @Warren Grant ,

Welcome to our forum!

Please kindly understand that the Outlook tag here we mainly focus on general issues about Outlook desktop client. Unfortunately, there is no such feature in Outlook desktop client to check where the sender region is.

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Warren Grant 20 Reputation points

2024-05-01T09:40:23.29+00:00

Thanks Christy. I was not suggesting that I could by myself find out the country of origin of an email. I do not have the skills. What I was asking was whether it is possible to find out the country of origin of an email. There are people out there who for a fee can do IT related work.
ChristyZhang-MSFT 26,121 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-05-07T08:15:45.3933333+00:00

Hi @Warren Grant ,

Thanks for your reply!

As i understood, the country of origin of an email is the also the sender's location. So, i'm afraid that it cannot be checked in Outlook. We can only check the message header to check the detail information of an information:
Warren Grant 20 Reputation points

2024-05-07T09:54:56.3966667+00:00

That is really what I wanted to know Christy.
ChristyZhang-MSFT 26,121 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-05-07T09:58:05.6666667+00:00

Hi @Warren Grant ,

Just checking in to see if above information was helpful. If it is useful, would you mind marking the helpful post as an answer? Which would benefit others who also has similar issues in forum.

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