One
small way to see if the girl you are talking to is lying about her
address is to trace her IP address. Below you will find instructions on
how to find a girl's IP address. If she is lying, I would advise you to
drop her without a reason or reply. (If she gave the address as Kirov
and you trace it to Yoshkar-Ola.) You could ask her why she lied about
her place of residence, but a scammer will have a reason for this. A
real girl wouldn't lie about it in the first place.
One
more thing. Some
antiscam sites or forums list suspicious IP adresses. You should ignore
this. I had this idea 7 years ago, but it will not help you. Let's say
a HUGE scammer group uses a dial-up service. Then, this stupid antiscam
site (like romancescam.com) lists thjis IP as being suspicious. So, a
regular girl, in the same city. who also uses the same dial-up service,
happens to get that same IP address that was recorded for the HUGe
scammer group. Now, the guy talking to her will go report this and she
will be named as a scammer.
A
scammer's IP address
could be anything, so a real girl will eventually end up with the same
IP address. IGNORE sites that list suspicious IP addresses!!! What is
important is where you are getting letters from.
How to Find an IP Address
This is for
hotmail and yahoo, but will also work for a few other web-based email
servers. Try the options folder or ask the webmaster how to do this. If
you find her real city, I might be able to help.
Finding IP address in Yahoo! Mail
- First of all log into your Yahoo! mail with
your username and password.
- Click on Inbox or whichever
folder you have stored your mail.
- Open the mail.
- On the top-right side of the mail page, there
is a hyperlink that says Full Headers. Click on it.
- If you see Brief Headers
and not Full Headers, then ignore step 4, and jump
to step 6.
- Look at the headers that are now displayed
above the message.
- Read the Received: headers
and search for IP addresses between square brackets
like this [ ].
- Look at the example below to understand exactly
how to do it.
Finding IP address in Hotmail
Here
is what you will find...
Return-path: <alena_cmok@mail.ru>
Received:
from mta17.srv.hcvlny.cv.net
(mta17.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.111]) by
mstr4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net
(iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Nov 5 2004
))
with
ESMTP id <0IC700HD6S9R3Q@mstr4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>
for
; Sun, 20 Feb 2005
09:29:52 -0500 (EST)
Received:
from aqua.relinfo.ru (ns.mari-el.ru [195.161.208.130])
by mta17.srv.hcvlny.cv.net
(iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004
))
with
ESMTP id <0IC7000M5S9P4V@mta17.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>
; Sun, 20
Feb 2005 09:29:51
-0500 (EST)
Received:
from 36.214.dialup.mari-el.ru
(36.214.dialup.mari-el.ru [195.161.214.36])
by aqua.relinfo.ru (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id
j1KEPeNQ036650 for
; Sun,
20
Feb 2005 17:27:56
+0300 (MSK
envelope-from alena_cmok@mail.ru)
Date: Sun,
20 Feb 2005 17:24:48
+0300
From: Alena <alena_cmok@mail.ru>
Subject: Re: Hello
In-reply-to:
<004e01c516fb$281033c0$15755143@hfcldbwlwttqne>
To: ****
Reply-to: Alena
<alena_cmok@mail.ru>
Message-id: <15143372.20050220172448@mail.ru
MIME-version: 1.0
X-Mailer: The Bat! (v2.10.01)
Educational
etc etc etc...
So, what you do is take the
last IP from the "RECEIVED FROM" lines.
Sometimes there is one, sometimes there are many. In this email header,
you can see this IP - 195.161.214.36
- in the last "RECEIVED FROM" line. Sometimes there is an
"X-ORIGINATING IP" at he top of the header. But you should always check
ALL the IP addresses that you can find until you get used to it.
* Special note. Many Russian
servers run through Moscow. So, if you trace a girl's IP and it says
she is in Moscow, you necessarily believe it. Check 3 of her emails and
get a consensus.
You
can check the IP address here - http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm
-
it's actually easy.
And it is
awesome, it shows you the city and other interesting info, too. But it
often doesn't work, so try this one, too.
http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl
