What can people tell from my IP address?

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Again, I say: No.

First of all: who's IP address was that supposed to be? Certainly not any of
mine ... it's 100's of miles off.

Second, in all likelihood you've just geo-located their ISP, not the user.

Leo
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Leo A. Notenboom, i have read lots of your articles about how people cannot get much from your ip address.

Then how do you explain this: someone from youtube found my ip address through my youtube account (i had never posted any information about me not my name or city or anything and i used a separate email account for my yt account). So once they had my ip address they somehow found my myspace!! Even though i had separate emails for both myspace and youtube, and i hadn't communicated through email with the person.

So how did he do that? I understand that it is very hard to get an ip address through yt but how then did he find my myspace? And is it possible he could also find out my email?

Hi, Got a guy who has scammed me out of a lot of money. I have spoke to him on MSN and have our convo saved. Any idea of how i can track his location etc.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Ross

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Contact the authorities. There's nothing you can do on your own.

Thanks,

Leo

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I was able to find the exact location of a computer through an IP address. There were some anonyomous postings on my website that were derogatory in nature. I got the IP from the posting, plugged it into geobites.com and found the longitude and latitude of the location of the computer. Then went to a site that converted longitude and latitude into a general location and was able to use a gps instrument and find the offending house.

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I'm closing comments on this article.

Please read
http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_find_out_whos_at_a_particular_ip_address.html for
information on tracing IP addresses, and what it takes to do so.

Leo

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