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Tracing an IP Address

Hi I have a few IP addresses from the Philippines. I have traced them using ip-address.com.

202.69.178.197 This shows as Davo City

202.69.188.253 This also shows as Davo City

Can I be sure that this is where the Email was sent from? Is there any possibility that a wireless network or other issues would cause this location to be wrong based on the IP address?

Thanks

johnny_the_knife

You can be pretty sure the IP address of the sending mail server in the headers of your email is correct. Whether the owner of that IP address / Server actually instigated the transmission of the emails is a different matter.

It's possible the mail server is operating in an Open Relay configuration or some software vulnerability, virus etc has been used to send the mail.

service07

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Johnny....are you saying that I can be pretty sure that the IP addresses I listed above are a correct match to Davo City? I am confident the sender of the Emails did not try to fake the IP address. The sender of the Emails was NOT supposed to be in that area of the country. So I want to be fairly sure that the IP address in the Email matches correctly to the Davo City before I begin to ask questions

Please reply back so I can give you your points

Thanks

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RTh0037

Not sure why points are not divided since he provided very little information