Can the police find out the exact computer/location from which an email was sent?

If somebody sent an email using someone else's Gmail account from a school computer while logged into their own school account, and now the police have been contacted by the person whose actual Gmail account it was, will they be able to find out who actually sent the email?





The person who is in this situation is already well aware of how truthful and well-deserved any insult and/or condemning statement is, so please only respond if you're going to answer the question.

Can the police find out the exact computer/location from which an email was sent?
They get the ip address then they go to the school and question people... not that hard.
Reply:Yeah, the police can find out who sent it. I had an assembly at school all about this kind of stuff, so I am pretty sure they can find out.
Reply:Well first of all, the person who the email was sent to (if this situation is deadly serious) has to go to the police first. And yes, the police is able to track down where the e-mail came from and they take threats from school computers very seriously. They can know which computer and how many students were logged on to that computer when and what time, so they can actually prove that it wasnt the person with the g-mail account, but someone else.





Good luck whatever your situation is.
Reply:Depending what was involved in this case, if it was something trivial then i doubt the Police would go to all the hassle of contacting Gmail and finding out the IP address of the PC that sent the email, then going back to the school to find out who was logged into that PC at that particular time.


In effect it is possible, but like i said, depending on the case i doubt they will follow up with it. Unless it was some kind of death threat or something threatening.
Reply:they can trace it back to the computer it was sent on, and then they can find out who logged on and at what time. then they can compare taht with the time the email was sent. But what police offer would waste their time doing that?
Reply:Yes, but there is a legal process involved.





An email can be traced back to the origin where it was sent. However, the police will need a subpoena to acquire the IP address and DNS regarding the Email in question from Google. Then they'll need to subpeona the ISP to acquire the exact location of where the Email was sent.
Reply:im sure they can they can do every ting now a days
Reply:No, but they can trace it back to the pc.
Reply:IP addresses can be easily traced, and if the school keeps logs on user names with the IP address included, you're screwed.
Reply:ABSOLUTELY !!!
Reply:With a warrant they can find out who owns the e-mail address and from there they can track down the mailing address of the owner.
Reply:well depending on how severe the email was. They can trace down which pc was used, and this may just be the end of it. however; if its something severe like a threat or something like that, then they can go into further investigation..if you logged into a school computer, most time u need a password and a login user so it may not be too hard especially because of the time and date the email was sent..if none of that then there would have been some teacher or someone supervising the location...and yah pretty much dudes busted if its something bad.


good luck
Reply:what did she say? they might not be able to see exactly who did it, but they can trace it to the location and computer
Reply:Yes, they can!
Reply:they will know the IP address of the computer that sent it but most IP addresses are dynamic via DHCP (meaning that each time a computer is turned on, it retrieves a temporary address that could change between uses).


It could be tracked if the school maintains user logs and IP distribution history but it will be a pain.





Certainly not something the police would do to track down a single faked email.
Reply:Yes, they can track down the IP address of the computer it came from and I'm sure you have special log-ins for your school so they could track down who was using it at the time it was sent...
Reply:To answer your question... Yes. Definetely! The police has access to all computer equipment and features that will trace anything small from an email, to what size shoe you wear. okay well, their really good at tracing.





Last year the same exact thing happened in school to someone. They were doing the same thing you described in your information up there in your question.





The kid was charged with hefty fines because he harrassed and bullied kids over the internet using email, by threatning them to spread their naked pictures of them, if they didn't do what they were told to do.
Reply:If Gmail agree to give the police the ip, through the ip they can find the web supplier and the location.


Unless Bin Laden sent the email ... nobody is going to bother tracking it down.
Reply:yes!!!!!!!!!!
Reply:Hmmm...the school account would be the key. I don't think they could track that...they could track the e-mail account, IP address, etc., but the actual school account? Well...I don't think so, but we'll see. Delete your temporary internet files just in case.