Linking multiple profiles to 1 IP adress....can it be done

cullelo

Hi,

Im looking for help. There is a person using multiple profiles on facebook, to annoy me.

Long story i wont bore you with.

I have this persons IP adress. Im sure they set up all the diff profile from the same device...a spare phone or laptop...

Is there a way to prove these are all from the same location...IP Address...???

If so, i am willing to pay for help. This will be used when i bring this person to court. defamation of my name, settin me up on dating sites, snapchat etc...using my image and name.

so sick of it.

the Gaurds cant help.

No time wasters please.

Thanks in advance.

Gregor Samsa

I doubt you have this person's IP address in any meaningful sense - most individuals don't have a static, unchanging publicly facing IP address. ISPs regularly assign different ones to their domestic customers, so one would not necessiarly have the same IP address every day. Commercial customers might have a fixed IP address, but even then the address you'd see the person having would be of the company's gateway, not the individual. If you were to get my IP address from when I'm posting from work, it would be the same for all the hundreds of people that work in my office, so it's not going to directly identify me.

And remember that the 192.168.x.x address that are assigned to individual devices on a network are only valid inside that network - millions of other devices across the world will have the same IP addresses (on different networks) too, so they in no way identify any individual unless you're already on their network (and they're not public facing anyway).

Facebook are the only people who can categorically tell you the IP address that any post or FB action is made from, and they won't do that without the proper authority of a court.

If you can set up a website that you control, and have access to the server logs, and get the person to visit that site somehow from a FB post or Message, then you could in theory confirm the IP address that they're visiting from - but you're left with the issue from the first paragraph that it in itself will not tell you much. You'd want to be doing it over a long period of time with each account to match up the various IP address and see a definitive pattern.

Fallout2022

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058243065/linking-multiple-profiles-to-1-ip-adress-can-it-be-done

"No time wasters please"

Would hate to eat in to any of your productively spent time.

Shield

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058243065/linking-multiple-profiles-to-1-ip-adress-can-it-be-done

I’ve looked at this thread, and the one you resurrected from August 2021. For the sake of convenience, I’ll only reply on this one.

What you want to happen actually happens in reverse in real life. You need to contact a solicitor first, and then have them contact the various social media giants.

Let’s say the person sets up a Facebook account, a Snapchat account, and a Twitter account, all pretending to be you. You can go the hit-and-miss route by contacting these companies yourself (sometimes they just ignore the general public) or else hire a solicitor do to this for you.

You would need your solicitor to make contact with each company (having secured a court order against each one) and demand the IP addresses of the accounts because you are being harassed on those platforms. Then, hopefully, all 3 accounts end up with just the one IP - the IP of person you had suspected all along. Your solicitor then has to go to Sky or Virgin Media or whoever owns the IP, and demand the identity of the person it’s being rented to every month through their bill. Once you have that, you better hope the person who has been harassing you has lots and lots of money to pay your award from the courts and your legal costs!

Bear in mind that this is a costly and long process. It would roughly take a year from the time you instruct a solicitor to getting court orders revealing the identity of the person behind this harassment. Possibly longer.

My advice would be just to put these accounts on ignore or block and get on with things. Unless you have serious money to spend AND are willing to accept the possibility that, even if you win, the losing side simply has no money to pay the award handed down by the court. Would you be happy with an “empty victory”?

Why not talk to some actual solicitors and barristers in our legal discussion forum below to get a rough idea how much all of this could cost. I just know it wouldn’t be cheap.

Good luck!

https://www.boards.ie/categories/legal-discussion

cullelo

Thanks. So annoyed i want justice. But at what price....to my wallet or ego....

I have done most of above....solicitors want you to come to them with the proof.

I have contacted the companies...snapchat, pof,and pof where very good.

Snapchat,nada.

The time alone and energy is awfull. All causing stress.

So a new phone number and off facebooo looks like only way to sort it.

Have one other friend,tryin to help.appreciate your reply. Thanks.

cullelo

Ok, this is massive in help. Thanks. I thought an IP adress was fixed to a device and location.....

I honestly cant thank u enough.

Shield

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118971109#Comment_118971109

I’m sorry I don’t have better news. The amount of reports like yours we get has skyrocketed over the years and if we were to investigate every one, the more serious crime would fall by the wayside. Maybe instead of using your real name on a new Facebook account, just make one up and only give it to your closest friends and family members? Same with the phone. Whoever it is, maybe they’ll just give up and move on to someone else if they don’t get the reaction they want from you anymore?

Donald Trump

OP. Maybe you are schizophrenic and doing it yourself.

Like the fella in fightclub beating himself up.

riclad

If being on fb is stressful get off Facebook, I'm not an expert, but photos have a geotag, eg location info. If different photos from different users have the same geotag, it's either the same person or they are all living in the same adress, location, Google photo geotag info , there's free tools to look at geotag location data go to user on Facebook download photo right click download image photo eg 5678.jpg to your pc or laptop

Than right click photo 5678.jpg look at details gps location. If many different photos on different users have the same gps than that may show the users are the same person

By the way if you look up say Mary kelly on fb there's probably 3 or 4 real users with that name eg it's a common name I know 2 people who have the same first and last name in real life . It's easy to make a fake account on social media , unless they are pretending to be you and posting defamatory negative insulting false info it it's not a legal issue eg unless maybe they say you use illegal drugs or have an onlyfans account or they try to post explicit images which would get the account banned on Facebook

every famous actor complains about trolls and getting weird harassing dms on social media its easy to block specific accounts or just block all dms set direct message off

That's my opinion I'm not a legal expert or I'm not qualified to give legal advice to anyone

When someone takes any photo with a phone it records geotag data unless it's set to location data off in the photo app

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118972280#Comment_118972280

Facebook strips out all the EXIF metadata from uploaded photos, so any photo posted there that you download won’t give the geolocation, or any other detail about the device that took it.

While you you’re uploading the photo, Facebook does give you the opportunity to use the geolocation in the EXIF metadata to tag the post with the location, but unless the poster activity chooses yo do this, you can’t get the geolocation data out of a posted photo.

So you know who it is but just need proof?

riclad

You could setup a twitter account tweet directly at Snapchat, dating websites, etc complaining about false profiles, eg someone is setting up fake profile a in my name, and using my photos, to harass me. Sometimes company's take action if tweeted at, I heard of someone with a problem, crap customer service no positive response from anyone , it was fixed in a few days when he emailed the ceo of the company directly. You don't need a solicitor to make a complaint to the Gardai. Whether they have time to deal with this is another question. I wonder do Snapchat etc remove meta data location data from all photos

YFlyer

How the heck do you contact Facebook?

BurgerFace

You could probably copyright your photos then sue the person for unauthorized use of your pics.