my ip address hence i must have done it. He said he went into my original email, right clicked and went down to "view source" and that gave him the ip address of the computer i sent the original email from. He then said he went into the email that was forwarded from his hotmail account and did the same thigs ie. right clicked and "view source" and said that the ip adresses matched so i had to have hacked into his hotmail account and forwarded the message myself. My query is if someone has hacked into my friends hotmail account and forwarded my message how difficult would it be to make it seem it had come from my computer and my ip address? My friend is saying he can prove it was me but it wasnt and im so upset now. Not only are we not talking anymore but he is now threatening to take this further and get police etc involved. There's never a question of whether ISPs Want to divulge their client's IPs, they are all listed in one WHOIS database or another, so it's not really a "well, they won't tell" issue. And if a person does ghost their IP, just do a simple tracer -t or pathping -i and follow the source path that way, the real IP will show. Spammers and misusers of email services really stand no chance nowadays, just find their IP out and locate it on a WHOIS database depending on