- How to find the persons IP from chat?
- How to find a person’s location from MSN, yahoo …
- This person is trying to cheat me through chat, how can I find him?
- Is it possible to find the user through chat?
Well these are haunting questions for many. People are using the anonymity of the internet to harass others over, chat, email and other source of internet tools. But keep it mind that anything and everything on the internet keep a trail behind. Some level of knowledge is needed to dig it out, that all. And with the help of modern day technologies and cyber crime detectives its easy to find a persons location over chat, email etc.
The only way to figure out the location of the person in a chat (chat room) is to get his or her IP address and track the location using some program. It’s no easier to figure out the location as the servers (Yahoo, MSN, Gtalk, Jabber chat servers) sit in-between. Many of these programs connect directly to the user IP only when a huge amount of data needs to be sent across. Something like a file transfer, cam (video) session or even a voice chat session. Once the connection is established its easy to find the IP address using any of the tools listed below.
Here are some ways to get the IP address
- The first and the simplest is to use the ‘netstat’ command from the windows command prompt
- Use some software like this.
Sometimes it’s every difficult to find the exact IP address from the pool of IPs connected to the machine. Try your maximum to limit the number of inbound and out going connection from your computer while doing this. Close the browser sessions, disable antivirus updates or other software updates will reduce the number of connection made from your machine to the victims machine. Run the tool and analyze the list of IP address in that pool. Few of them will be the Yahoo, MSN or Gtalk server address and which can be easily identified with little practice. Short list the suspicious IP address and try to trace route the IP address
- To trace route an IP address give ‘tracert<space>IP-ADDRESS’ in command prompt
This will give you an idea of how far the victim in located.
Next is to find the geographic location of the person.
Each ISP is given a particular set of IP address and the provider divides it among its users. So it’s possible to trace the location to a particular ISP or to a certain geographic location on the globe. You can use so many free tools available on the web. One thing to note here is no tool available on the planet will be able to provide the street level address information from a given IP address. But once you can pin point the IP address you can use the law enforcement officers to get the address from the ISP. The ISPs simply will not answer to your queries regarding the user location. So don’t waste time digging for it.
City level information will be suffice in most cases as we will be able to understand who the person is.
Hope it helps. Best of luck, happy hunting
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10 Responses:
September 24th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
when ever i do ipconfig then i get local ip address by that ip i cant do any things on nbtstat so what to do .is there any method to get connection or find out ip add.
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:46 pm
1. Its not helpful to just say use netstat without providing more resources on how to read and use the application.
2. Not necessary to close anti virus and auto updating software. Highly unlikely that those softwares will be updating as you run netstat.
3. Trace route doesn’t do much. Checking what city the original IP address is from (as you suggested) does everything you are suggesting that trace route accomplishes.
4. Sum of article. Close all non essential programs that uses the internet, but keep open the chat program. Start a file transfer from your’s to the target’s computer. Use betstat to see what IP addresses your computer is talking to. Filter which one is the target’s by process of elimination. Research via internet what company owns the address and what area of the world do they service.
That’s all you can do without a court order. It is not trivial to dig for the real name and address of the account holder of the internet accout who is using a certain IP address at a certain time. And even if you did, who’s to say they weren’t at a coffee shop using the wireless?
February 5th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I was recently conned US$3000 by someone pretending to be selling me goods from UK. I wish i knew then what I know today because I have managed to discover all along that I was being cheated from our next door country i.e Uganda. This lady was never in UK or South America as claimed.
Now I am finding it hard to find IP of a google mail send to a yahoo address like mine. That down, show original is not there.
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Hi.,
i am regular chat member, i need to findout who are all coming new nick name dailly, and somebody kidding badly,
i have to find them, so i need them ip address,
pls help me for this issue,
i am using oneindia chat