how do the police track down people from their IP address?, like how do they do it?, just wondering?

Question

I'm just curious on how they do it, all I know is that it has something to do with the IP address, like how do they track down a person's house address from their e-mail, internet, etc., like if someone is posting or sending a threat on a website or anywhere on the Internet, how do the police, F.B.I., or other law enforcement track people down?

Answer 1

Simple. IP's are your addresses in the network or the World Wide Web. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide or assign the necessary IP addresses to their clients (thru the clients DNS Servers) and have a list of these IPs. All IPs are unique. So ones a crime has been committed on the web, all the police and FBI have to do is track the IP Address. How? They go to the ISP and ask them who own this certain IP Address in their network. (lets say, my IP is 124.6.113.124) now this IP is unique and is assigned to me. So, once the ISP tells them that it's mine, I'll be caught.

Simple.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The IP address is insufficient, alone, to track an individual to an address. Unless you purchased a dedicated IP address, which is only necessary if you are hosting a website out of your home (or business), the IP address is assigned dynamically. Your IP address will very likely change if you power down your modem and then power it back up (or if the electricity goes out in your neighborhood, you're practically guaranteed to get a different IP address).

However, the IP address does have meanings. Using it, you can tell what ISP carrier the person is using, and what region of the country they are in, and even the closest router to the person. So, depending on the router, there could be 1 to 999 people on it.

Then, using clues in the messages sent on the internet, the Perp usually provides enough personal information to narrow it down from there.

Answer 4

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Well it is possible, any body can trace an IP address. But it is not very likely, that sort of police investigation would be for something more serious, like if she was being sexually harassed on line. Even if this girl is 12 you did end the conversation, so you can't be accused of harassment at all. Any serious police investigation would take your hard drive and they'd be able to tell what you had been doing and saying, they'd look for other signs of that sort of activity to build a case. This seems very unlikely to happen but your hard drive would tell the truth if the police were interested. Forget about it, she sounds like a troll.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

every computer has an Ip address, its just like your home address in the sence that every IP is uniqui and every computer on the internet has one. also your address consists of a country, state, town street and box number, an IP address has 4 numbers seporated by dots (192.168.0.1) both addresses are broken down in th esame way, if your internet provider is road runner, and your Ip starts with 76 then that the first step, then they look at the second number tells the which area its in, then the 3rd number, tells them which town or part of town, that last number is then uniqui to your internet account, the know who owns the internet account and therefore can find you

Answer 7

Track This Ip

Answer 8

Most people connect to the Internet through an Internet Service Provider (ISP). The subscriber's IP address is assigned by the ISP from a block of addresses assigned to the ISP. The assignment is logged by the ISP. The block of addresses belonging to the ISP is public information, so the ISP can be identified from the IP address. Law enforcement can subpoena the log from the ISP and determine to whom the address was assigned at a particular time.

Answer 9

The IP address links them to your internet service provider. I guess the service provider keeps track of its IP addresses. I think I saw it on Discovery; a show about some teen hacker from Canada.

Answer 10

An IP contains a geological location. They can also see which ISP is providing for the IP address. So my guess is they can check the ISP's customer records to find out.