Messing with an IP address

Chardee MacDennis · 15-08-2008 10:00AM #1

Right, so woke up this morning to a load of email telling me some cnut had gotten into my gmail account from the IP address 123.11.79.19 (Google keeps track of these) and spammed my whole address book. The IP seems to be from Beijing.

First off what are the odds that this is really where the break in came from? and secondly what can i do to f*ck with this guy using his IP address?

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 15-08-2008 10:11AM

Well the Ip could be dynamically assigned so it might not even be his any more.

Chardee MacDennis · 15-08-2008 10:13AM

Sean_K wrote: »

Well the Ip could be dynamically assigned so it might not even be his any more.

true... lets assume its not!

Mines · 15-08-2008 02:45PM

There is no much in terms of doing anything to that IP. The only thing you could do is send an abuse complaint to the owner of that IP block, but I wouldn't bet they will get back to you.

Besides that, that IP could be either dynamic or a proxy used by someone else trying to cover up the steps.

Anyway, where did this message come up? In your mail inbox?

15-08-2008 03:17PM

Besides dynamic IP, could they also be using Tor? Not only that, what if they had been spamming from a zombie they controlled?

Chardee MacDennis · 15-08-2008 05:47PM

this is the limit of the info i have

Chardee MacDennis · 15-08-2008 10:27PM

no worries now. someone took his site down :cool:

Messing with an IP address

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