Trying To See Who Sent An Email To Me Using My Address.

I have a friend that recently asked for help. She is getting emails that seem to be coming from her. Years ago, when I had XP, I knew how to check, but I now have Win 10 and haven't needed to check in a very long time. Can anyone give me some info on tracking the sender?

 

You can check the header of the email. It's usually under more options.
You might get a more detailed reply if you tell us which email is being used. As in ******@yahoo.com.

 

Here is a sample header from an email sent to me by Majorgeeks:
Return-path: <SRS0=1g0VpY=ME=majorgeeks.com=noreply@computer-help.net>
Envelope-to: xxxxxxx@computer-help.net
Delivery-date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 03:21:13 -0500
Received: from [10.114.3.14] (helo=smtp.maileig.com)
by walmailscan10.yourhostingaccount.com with esmtp (Exim)
id 1a4P8b-000676-OQ
for xxxxx@computer-help.net; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 03:21:13 -0500
Received: from beta.majorgeeks.com ([209.133.215.228])
by walimpinc14 with bizsmtp
id owMC1r00v4wEgV501wMD4B; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 03:21:13 -0500
X-EN-OrigIP: 209.133.215.228
X-EN-IMPSID: owMC1r00v4wEgV501wMD4B
Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by beta.majorgeeks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA49E4DF0A0
for <gopher@computer-help.net>; Thu, 3 Dec 2015 08:21:11 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from beta.majorgeeks.com ([127.0.0.1])
by localhost (beta.majorgeeks.com [127.0.0.1]) (maiad, port 10024) with ESMTP
id 20190-06 for <xxxxxx@computer-help.net>;
Thu, 3 Dec 2015 08:21:11 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by beta.majorgeeks.com (Postfix, from userid 5001)
id 99F494DF200; Thu, 3 Dec 2015 08:14:06 +0000 (UTC)
To: davismccarn <xxxxx@computer-help.net>
Subject: Hardware? - New reply to watched thread
X-PHP-Originating-Script: 5001:Sendmail.php
From: "MajorGeeks.Com Forums" <noreply@majorgeeks.com>
X-To-Validate: c63d91b9+gopher@computer-help.net
Message-Id: <eb4f99e4c6f999496ff2983d179ea0ca7ac65065@forums.majorgeeks.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 08:14:06 +0000
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="=_d076debe6f5f40d4387bf1a5f2a2f98c"
MIME-Version: 1.0

The X-EN-OrigIP entry is supposed to be the IP of the sending PC and you can look that ip up using Nirsoft's IPNetInfo:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ipnetinfo.html

It can be difficult to view or get the full headers depending on the email program or type (i.e. web based) and it is often a fruitless effort as the largest group of spammers have over 300,000 bots (slave PC's) sending their spam and will change where it came from regularly. Generally, the problem subsides in a week or two.