Thanks to all of the different web based e-mail services, having to have your own domain name or rely on the e-mail addresses provided by your internet service is a thing of the past. Now, with no cost to you, you can have as many e-mail addresses as you like. Some families choose to have web based e-mail services for each member of their family. Web based e-mail saves space on your home computer and has far less risk of file loss than an internet-based service. Is it any wonder, then, that hundreds of millions of people have signed up for web based e-mail?



Yahoo mail is one of the most popular web based e-mail services. It is offered via the popular Yahoo search engine and offers users plenty of space and other fun options like live chat and access to Yahoo groups and forums. Of course, web mail is not without its risks. If an account is left dormant for a long period of time it runs the risk of being hacked by spammers. If a person's password is easy to figure out it also runs the risk of being used to send malicious or unsolicited e-mail to other internet users.

If you have recently been receiving unwanted e-mails from a Yahoo mail account, it is possible to find out who is sending them. The best way to do this is through a reverse e-mail search. There are plenty of reverse e-mail services available, but your first stop should be the Yahoo e-mail reverse e-mail search. You'll be more likely to find out current information if you use the Yahoo servers to check their user records.

This might sound obvious, but you will want to write down all of the yahoo e-mail addresses that have been sending you the unwanted e-mails. The number of people who try to do reverse e-mail searches without remembering the e-mail address they want to search for is staggering. It is also important to remember that you might have to try a few different reverse e-mail searches before you find the one that turns up the information you have been searching for. While you will want to start with Yahoo's reverse e-mail lookup, it is important to keep your options open—options that involve using other web based reverse e-mail search services or, if none of those work, hiring a professional to do the searching for you.

Keep in mind that there are some people who do not want to be found and they will take many steps to protect their identities and contact information. If you run into something like this, your best bet is to report the unwanted e-mails to your Yahoo server and let them figure out what action to take. You should also be taking steps to protect your own account to keep someone else from using it to send out unwanted e-mails that look like they are coming from you!

You should always start with the Yahoo reverse e-mail search, but keep an open mind and don't be afraid to be tenacious in your search. You should be able to find what you are looking for!

Copyright (c) 2008 Ed Opperman