A Yahoo Messenger question ...

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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 8:08 pm

I have been baiting an employment scammer (Wal-Mart Secret Shopper) for about two weeks now. The frustration she(?) has shown already is great. My character is a college aged bimbo (I mean that in the most endearing way) that is living in a house of horrors with housemates that abuse her and steal her mail. They have gotten her first paycheck, even! So my character has a friend that works for the bank and can quickly cash the check, no questions asked, to get the overpayment back to the employer right away once the check is recovered from the nasty housemate that stole it. She mentioned this to the employer and now all of a sudden I was offered a job "more befitting"... my guess is mass check cashing?

Anyway, on to my question - the scammer is using Gmail and so is my character so the only IP addresses I can see are internal ones. I cannot get a location on this person. But she has asked if my character has Yahoo messenger. Is there any way you can gather IP information through messenger? I'm not sure if she is going to try to get mine or if there is a way for me to get hers. I'm going to try to get her to e-mail me from her Yahoo account (won't that give me a traceable IP?) but she is pretty suspicious of me as it is. (My guess is the smell of money is the only reason she's offering this new job.)

I have signed up for a mentor, btw (and got TheLovelyJill) Smile

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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 8:25 pm

Yep, when on any chat program you are connected to that other computer and in windows you can use a file named netstat.exe, make a batch file in notepad

Quote:

c:\windows\system32\netstat -n
pause

and safe it as XXX.BAT so you can run it from your desktop while chatting with him.
You'll get something like this

Quote:

C:\>c:\windows\system32\netstat -n

Active Connections

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP 127.0.0.1:1027 127.0.0.1:1028 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:1028 127.0.0.1:1027 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:1032 127.0.0.1:1033 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:1033 127.0.0.1:1032 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.12:1048 209.87.211.136:80 TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.0.12:1066 74.125.95.106:443 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.12:1068 74.125.95.106:443 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.12:1069 74.125.95.17:443 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.12:1071 74.125.95.106:443 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.12:1072 74.125.95.17:443 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.12:1073 74.125.95.106:443 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.12:1074 74.125.95.17:443 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.12:1075 74.125.95.17:443 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.12:1076 66.220.147.44:80 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.12:1078 66.220.146.21:443 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.12:1080 80.154.117.43:80 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.12:1081 80.154.117.50:80 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.12:1082 80.154.117.27:80 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.12:1083 74.125.95.101:80 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.12:1084 74.125.102.87:80 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.12:1086 69.63.180.43:80 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.12:1087 69.63.180.43:80 ESTABLISHED

C:\>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

To get his IP a bit easier with less risk you can sent him an email through http://www.readnotify.com/ and you'll know where he is.

Have fun

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:06 pm

Thanks, Bill! I have created the file and played with it a bit already. Smile

I did get him to mail me from his Yahoo account, though, and unless Lagos has suddenly jumped shipped and became part of the UK this person lied to me. Shocked

I'm going to chat with him tonight and see what his "more befitting job" is for me. It will be interesting. He does seem a little smarter than some of the others I've read about on here. Very good grasp of the English language for the most part as well as pretty technologically savvy. I'll see what I can do. Hopefully if nothing else I can waste time although a piggy would be nice.

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