Damsel in Distress!!
Anyone know how to trace the IP address of an AIM user using their SN? I have the SN and the times when a few insulting messages were sent, and I need to know- for my own safety as well as the safety of my loved ones- if this is someone I know or a random person. If it's a random person, I'm in the clear. but I haven't the faintest idea... please, someone help me!
Anyone know how to trace the IP address of an AIM user using their SN? I have the SN and the times when a few insulting messages were sent, and I need to know- for my own safety as well as the safety of my loved ones- if this is someone I know or a random person. If it's a random person, I'm in the clear. but I haven't the faintest idea... please, someone help me!
Report to AOL. Let them handle it, send them raw text files of all their messages and everything. They should then report them to their IP.
Ashmoria
26-05-2005, 03:25
block that user and consider changing your aim screen name. if it persists after that, its someone you know.
The Black Forrest
26-05-2005, 03:26
Report to AOL. Let them handle it, send them raw text files of all their messages and everything. They should then report them to their IP.
Agreed.
As long as you didn't post any private info anywhere; you should be ok.
Most likely a teen or pre-teen thinking they are funny.
This has happened before; if its the person I think it might be, she'll use other means of harassing me and my loved ones. And AIM has no tech support; the AOL tech support guys barely know AIM exists. They only care about PAYING users
Last time it happened, it tore apart the lives of at least 3 or 4 people and made things hell for a while. This person was calling in the middle of the night then hanging up, sending messages, one of my (now ex) friends was having email correspondance and insisted that this person was good and trying to help her (by feeding her info to turn her against all of us).....
Lord-General Drache
26-05-2005, 03:30
block that user and consider changing your aim screen name. if it persists after that, its someone you know.
You don't have to change your username. Just make it so no one outside of your buddylist can contact you.
You don't have to change your username. Just make it so no one outside of your buddylist can contact you.
Like, the people I meet from here? I have one main SN, and then a few private ones that very few people know, for when I need to escape
Lord-General Drache
26-05-2005, 03:43
Like, the people I meet from here? I have one main SN, and then a few private ones that very few people know, for when I need to escape
As in anyone. You have to add them to your buddy list for them to see you online, when they add you to their's. If they're not on your list, you'll never appear online to them, and thus, they cannot contact you.
As in anyone. You have to add them to your buddy list for them to see you online, when they add you to their's. If they're not on your list, you'll never appear online to them, and thus, they cannot contact you.
I understand how it WORKS. I just post my SN a lot of places, and thus a lot of people message me saying "hey, I saw you on X, I'm Y" or whatever
Kibolonia
26-05-2005, 08:02
I would probably ask the guys developing opensource programs with AIM interoperability, or at broadbandreports.com about this. I would be inclined to use a network monitoring tool, snag the packets, search for a sufficently unique phrase and then find the IP address that way. (ip address to network, network to abuse@network, transcript & copy of the packet included.) I don't use AIM, so I don't know what they go through, and whether the traffic is obscured in someway. I would *guess* it's all straight foreward. But....
You could always file a police report too.