The META Scholar Volume 4 | Page 39

1. Click Message Source Highlight, copy and paste everything from the Message Source window (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C) into the Email Header Analysis Engine, and click Submit header for analysis Extracting Email Headers from Yahoo Mail To extract email headers from Yahoo Mail: 1. Log into your Yahoo! Mail account. 2. Click the Mail Options link on the left-hand navigation bar. 3. Click the General Preferences link on the right. 4. Locate the Show Headers heading and select All Click the "Save" button to put your new settings into effect. Next, is a screen shot of a full email header and the code that we will have to decipher. When you have your header extracted, copied, and saved, you can begin investigating the information within it. Essentially, you are turning the tides to track down the hacker. Let us use an example email from a Nigerian hacker sent to Henry’s Microsoft Windows Live Mail Inbox: