When Gmail first started onto the web based e-mail prospect a few years ago, its service was available only to those who had been invited to use the service. Now it is free to anyone who wishes to use it and it has become one of the most standard free web based e-mail services on the internet. This is due mostly to its large entrepot space and extra characteristics like POP3 access and chat. Of course, Gmail is also very attractive to cyber stalkers and like other web based e-mail services, is favorite among those who use e-mail to send uninvited harassing or annoying messages to others.

• If you have been experiencing unwanted e-mail from a Gmail address, there are steps that you can take to find out who has been mailing you the e-mail and get them to terminate.

• Your first stride should be to use the reverse e-mail search offered by Gmail itself. This is because it is easier for Gmail to search its own e-mail records than it is to get them to uncover data to an outside reference. If you are a Gmail account holder yourself you might also have more leverage than you would as an “outside” e-mail account holder.

• Try using Gmail’s reverse e-mail lookup system to see what kind of entropy you can uncover about the identity associated with the e-mail address that has been sending you unwanted e-mail.

• If you don’t have much (or any) luck with the Gmail reverse e-mail search system, there are a lot of independent reverse e-mail search systems on the World Wide Web. A simple search with any of the better search engines will turn up enough of unique search systems in which you can look up the identity that has been designated to the e-mail address that keeps growing up in your e-mail inbox.

• The key in this search is to be persistent. Do not give up if you don’t find out who has been mailing you unwanted e-mail with your first reverse e-mail search. One search service might have an easier time of accessing Gmail’s records than others.

• If the e-mails feel particularly spiteful you might consider hiring a professional to run a reverse e-mail look for you. Gmail is especially appealing to the cyber bully because Gmail will strip the senders IP information from the lintel. Thus the Internet stalker conceives that he cannot be noted from a header trace.

• While it is true that the header information from a Gmail email is unavailing in tracing their identity. That does not mean that it is impossible to identify and locate the sender of a Gmail email.

• Every time a person functions the Internet or signs up to an live service and enters their email address, they leave a footprint and that footprint can be tracked and traced back to the sender. The professional investigator has developed years of sources and resources in order to acquire this information that may be unavailable to the average person.