is it possible to trace an email from another country?

[Hilda]

Long story short,my sister met a guy on tagged.com
he says he is in Nigeria on buissness.
He gave her a sad story about his son being in hospital there and they won't let him leave country until hospital bill is paid. They will only take cash. They have taken his passport.
He doesn't have cash,doesn't have access to credit card.
TO ME it all is B.S.! She is gulliable and lonely.
I don't want her to be taken in on a scam.
So I had her send me one of his emails in hopes that I could trace his email addy.
Well the trace came back from Sunnyvale,Ca.
He has email through yahoo and that is where yahoo,corp is located.

What I need to know is how to find out for sure he is in Nigeria?

Thanks.

[clanmills]

You and your sister don't need to know anything about this person. This is 100% none-sense. Even if his implausible story were true, why would anybody pay a bill for a total stranger?

Ignore and forget about this person. Block him in your spam filter, Skype, Facebook - or any other conduit of communication.

[greg862]

Don't bother tracing anything. Virtually EVERY e-mail you get that is connected with Nigeria is a financial trap! The US Secret Service maintains a local field office IN Lagos, Nigeria for the sole purpose of following up rip offs of American citizens by Nigerian nationals. Yes, the SECRET SERVICE...same department that protects the President also handles foreign crimes against Americans. With 100% accuracy, I can tell you this guy is a con artist. Don't care what sad story he told your sister...he's a con artist, guaranteed! BEWARE...ignore him and do not reply any longer. Expect random follow ups (all ripoffs) from his fellow cohorts, after you ignore him and they try new ways to get you to pay money.

[NJ-PI]

Hilda,

If you still have the email and still need to trace it let me know and I will do a free trace for you. Contact me off thread at protective-intel@comcast.net and I will let you know how to get access to the email header which is what is used to trace an email.

Zen Paris

Originally Posted by Hilda

Long story short,my sister met a guy on tagged.com
he says he is in Nigeria on buissness.
He gave her a sad story about his son being in hospital there and they won't let him leave country until hospital bill is paid. They will only take cash. They have taken his passport.
He doesn't have cash,doesn't have access to credit card.
TO ME it all is B.S.! She is gulliable and lonely.
I don't want her to be taken in on a scam.
So I had her send me one of his emails in hopes that I could trace his email addy.
Well the trace came back from Sunnyvale,Ca.
He has email through yahoo and that is where yahoo,corp is located.

What I need to know is how to find out for sure he is in Nigeria?

Thanks.

[dlm4763]

This is happening to me now.
Trace is showing up Nigeria but everytime I am
stupid enough to send the money (money I need)
he comes up with another reason why he can't leave there. Now his ticket has expired.

[wimiadmin]

Originally Posted by dlm4763

This is happening to me now.
Trace is showing up Nigeria but everytime I am
stupid enough to send the money (money I need)
he comes up with another reason why he can't leave there. Now his ticket has expired.

Nothing will ever resolve from this. You will never meet this person and as long as you're giving them money, they'll keep coming for more via email.

I don't know how much you've given, but it's probably time to contact that authorities. Even following through with legal action, I doubt very seriously you'll ever see one cent of your 'loaned' money returned.