i need help, some1 called larryharry007@yahoo.com has commited criminal deception against me and im out of pocket by £3k the police are involved, does any one no how i can get an original name,phone no.address ect ect from this persons emaill addrees as described above, if you can help me find this person there will be a reward. thankyou
2006-08-28 04:48:10 · 5 answers · asked by martin.arlott@btinternet.com 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
How?
If they have stolen your details the banks can do stuff to find out who - if you were "unfortunate" enough to supply this guy with your details I'd say you need to wise up to net fraud !
Never supply any bank details to emails saying "you need to update your details or we will cancel your account"
Yahoo addresses are totally anonymous though - one thing you could do is give yahoo the date and time they sent u the email and they can cross reference the IP address it was sent from BUT if I was committing fraud like that I would mask my IP with a proxy server (amongst other things which I'm not going to broadcast to the world) so no one could trace it.
2006-08-28 04:56:36 · answer #1 · answered by the thinker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About the best that Yahoo might be able to do is to identify the IP address that the person using that ID sent any e-mail from. I'd wager that that IP address is probably in Nigeria somewhere.
The name and address details on the account are almost certainly false.
Given the above, I'd say that any chance of either recovery or prosecution is pretty much zero.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. But you might get lucky and some real moron in the UK has failed to cover his tracks effectively. That does happen occasionally, but don't get your hopes up too high.
2006-08-28 05:00:59 · answer #2 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The police may have to ask Yahoo for this person's details. That way THEY will find out his address and so on. I don't think there's any way YOU can obtain this information legally.
2006-08-28 04:53:31 · answer #3 · answered by Lee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If this person sent you e-mail, try looking at the e-mail headers -- they may show you what IP address the e-mail was originally sent from.
2006-08-28 04:54:22 · answer #4 · answered by Chris 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His first name is martin - want the rest?
2006-08-28 04:59:30 · answer #5 · answered by gnyla 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋