Information on romance scams and scammers.
by Isis Sun Jun 24, 2012 1:45 am
HI there

I am new to the art of trying to work out if someone on line is real or not - i have been scammed once and lost money, i have had more than half a dozen others try to scam me, i have had one try to blackmail me - its been a vile experience. but i refuse to believe that everyone on a dating website is a scum sucking low life - surely there have to be some genuine people like me out there!

In googling a man i am currently chatting to - i found his name on this site, which introduced me to the site - i am thankful that i found out he is a scammer before i got in too deep - i found the IP tracker and used that on all the men i have received emails from from the dating site i ahve been on - only 1 out of 10 seems to be from where the IP tracker places them!!!! - can this be the case???? How accurate is the tracker??

Also - one thing confuses me greatly - and i am not that IT savvy so my understanding of what the UT trqacker means is limited. The place of origin has varied for the same email address. With one man, it says the point of origin of his IP address is the US, and then it changes to Nigeria, and then back to the US - so i dont know what this means - am i condemning him to the label of scammer prematurely? Can you please explain how that can come about?? I need to understand how to interpret what the IT tracker is telling me.

please help! Isis
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by John DeLaney Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:13 pm
Hi isis, the ip tracker uses the information contained in the header, the originating ip address, plus all the other way points along the way to get to your address.

Some email providors, gmail/yahoo etc, shunt all their data through their main headquarter branch at times, so you will see on occasions places like Sunnyvale (Yahoo) show as the originating address.

If you do find Nigeria/Malaysia/Ghana etc at times, these will be the true originating address, any other address, especially if it shows the providor headquarter city, will not be true.

Gmail can be extremely hard to find an originating address for at times, they tend to strip all data from the header, and use their main headquarter ip.

Best of luck, and take care

John

John DeLaney

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