The Internet and social networks very often imply a certain anonymity. After all, it’s no secret that anonymous communication promises people greater freedom and openness. Or it happens that a person, for one reason or another, needs to hide his true identity and place of residence among other users of social networks.
One of these, I would say anonymous social networks, is the popular national social network My World. In this social network, probably more than any other, you can meet users with unrealistic photographs, pictures instead of photos, and anonymous nicknames.
Sometimes you need to find out who is hiding under all this anonymity, simply for the sake of your own interest or for some other purpose. Of course, it is not always possible to find out everything thoroughly about the user, but it is almost always possible to extract some information, and sometimes it is possible to completely identify the anonymous person.
And so, we go to the page of a specific user: my.mail.ru/mail/anonimforever98/. It doesn’t matter whether his profile is closed or open.
We look at the address bar of the browser.
We are interested in two values in the page address: mail and anooimforever98 . This is how we found out the mailbox given user, to which an account is registered on the social network My World: [email protected] . Also in Mail's mail there may be postal addresses ending in domains: inbox.ru, bk.ru and list.ru. Therefore, the domain will change in address bar browser, depending on the email address.
Next, I would like to know the phone number of this user. It will not be possible to find out the phone number completely, but the first 7 digits of the number can be calculated, thereby we can easily find out the regional affiliation and mobile operator.
We launch another browser where you do not have saved data in My World, or log out of your account in the World. Click: Forgot your password?
We get to the password recovery pages. Enter the details of our anonymous person: anooimforever98. And click on the button: Restore (don’t forget to change the domain value mailbox, if a person’s mail is registered at: inbox.ru, bk.ru or list.ru).
On the next page we can already see the first 7 digits of our anonymous number.
We go to any search engine, for example Google, and enter the phone number data, for example: phone number 7915. Google will give us a bunch of sites where you can look at the range telephone numbers. We choose a site, for example: www.kodtelefona.ru. In this case, our anonymous person has a phone number belonging to: MTS Moscow and Moscow region.
But some users delete their numbers from their profile social network My world, then it will not be possible to find out a person’s regional affiliation. But such users are not a very large percentage. For the most part, almost everyone has a phone number in their settings. Yes, and My World imposes restrictions on the use of all social capabilities. networks.
And so, we already know that our anonymous person lives in Moscow or the Moscow region. Already something.
You can also search for information by email. Many users register in various social networks and services using the same e-mail.
We simply copy the entire postal address of our anonymous person and enter it into Google.
Thus, you can find fairly comprehensive information on a specific user of the My World social network, and sometimes find out who really is hiding under the guise of an anonymous person.
Messenger calculation anonymous opinion about you is now not too difficult a task, although before it was almost impossible to do. In practice, you just have to provoke this author to follow a certain link.
The first way to calculate anonymity
We suggest the following method. The menu on the left contains the “My Settings” item, in which you need to launch the “Suggestions” function. If you have already launched it before, and you have answers to the suggestions, then delete them immediately. After that, create any question, for example: “Do you want to take a walk with me?” Next, go back to the settings and turn off the “Suggestions” option.
After this, you send the anonymous person a response containing a link accompanied by a comment that will force the recipient to follow it. For example: “Is this your message????”
The link must contain the following address:
http:// vkontakte.ru/matches.php?act=a_sent&to_id=123456&dec=1, in which you replace the numbers 123456 with your VKontakte id number. If the recipient follows the link and gets to the profile with your offer, you will immediately receive information about this. In this case, only the author of an anonymous opinion will be able to answer it.
Finding out the author of an anonymous opinion, method two
This method is more complex and limited in application, because it is suitable only for those who have few friends. The method involves removing all users from the friends list. The point is that on VKontakte you can respond to an opinion received exclusively from a friend, otherwise you will not be able to answer it. So, you remove one friend at a time and try to respond to the opinion. When, the next time you try, you fail, you will find out the name of the anonymous person.
Third way
The third way is to use special applications, especially Pathfinder. Given software product designed to track user actions on your page. By comparing the time a person spent on your account and the time he created the opinion, you can easily draw conclusions about the author of the anonymous message.
Surely you remember the boom around sites with anonymous questions, which was so relevant 3-5 years ago. Many Internet users shared links to such resources and encouraged friends and strangers to ask them about various things. “Ask.fm” and “Sprashivay.ru” were very popular among Russian users. Serious verbal battles, showdowns, revelations, and confessions flared up on these sites. And the question “How can I find out who writes anonymously to Ask?” was probably asked by everyone who registered there. Even if passions have subsided a little today, and only their devoted fans remain on these networks, there are still questions that are still relevant. We will sort them out.
What is "Ask.fm"?
If you were on the sidelines of that trend, then first of all we will briefly tell you about this resource. Ask.fm (today it is ASKfm) is a social network where a user can both send completely anonymous questions to others (you can remove incognito if desired) and answer such messages yourself. The resource was created in Latvia in 2010. It acted as a competitor and in some ways a successor to the once popular Formspring.
Unlike the same “Facebook”, “VKontakte”, the functionality of “Ask” is somewhat limited: setting an avatar, a short questionnaire, a wall with friends’ answers, your own profile with all the questions you were once asked in chronological order. By replying to a message, you automatically make the question and your message visible to everyone who visits your page. You can publish anonymous questions in Ask.fm and publish your answers on Tumblr, VKontakte, Twitter, having previously integrated with these services. By the way, it was precisely such reposts that once widely advertised this site.
Who writes to Ask? According to statistics, in February 2015 the popularity of the network reached its peak with 80 million registered users worldwide. Not everyone has the same attitude towards her. Many were shocked by the news in 2012: Irish schoolchildren committed suicide due to bullying by their classmates at Ask.fm.
How to ask an anonymous question without registering?
First of all, I’m wondering how to write anonymously to Ask. This can be done in two ways.
In Russia (not all countries have this option), it is possible to ask a question to the Aska user without having an account on this network. Of course, if the user allows the possibility of sending him such messages. This is done like this:
- Follow the link or through a search on the resource to the profile of the desired person.
- Enter the text of the question in the field.
- Express your agreement with the terms of service, confirm that you are over 13 years old, that you have not written anything offensive to a person - just check the box.
- Click on the orange button with the airplane - the question has been sent!
How to ask a question if you are already registered?
If you want to find out who is writing to your friends in Ask and ask and answer questions yourself, then it’s easier to register online. It's easy - just indicate email, name, password, date of birth, gender. It’s faster to log in via VK, Twitter, Facebook. The question is simple:
- Go to the page of the desired user.
- Write a question.
- By default it will already be anonymous. If you want the user to know the authorship, then move the incognito slider.
- You can also set it to invisibility: it will not be displayed that you were online when you sent the question.
- Click on the button with the airplane and the question is sent to the recipient!
How to find out who writes anonymously to Ask?
If we turn to information from official representatives of this resource, we will see that they assure everyone that the site is absolutely anonymous. That is, if, when sending a message, you checked “Anonymous question”, then you can be 100% sure that this is really true: no one will ever know that it was you who sent the message.
In principle, this is the feature of the resource that attracted you to it - the ability to ask questions incognito and receive them from people who want to hide their identity.
Are there services that will help reveal anonymity?
If you are wondering how to find out who writes anonymously in Ask, then you are probably looking for additional software that can provide this opportunity. If we turn again to official representatives, they will assure us here that there is not a single program in the world that would allow revealing all the cards of their users.
But we know that there are craftsmen who can hack even the most secure system, let alone data from a site with anonymous questions. If we look at the advertising of these programs, their developers describe the secrets of their creations approximately this way: “Asku” knows the IP address of any user, by which the system identifies him, which is why each user has his own unique ID. Based on this data, the program tracks and identifies the anonymous person. And if he has a page from another social network linked to his profile, then you can instantly recognize by sight the person who left you such an exciting message.
However, there is one “but” here - under the guise of whistleblower applications, a lot of malware, which are set up to steal your personal data. Therefore, we advise you to refrain from such investigations.
How to protect yourself from anonymous questions?
If you are really worried about annoying anonymous people, we advise you to do the following:
- Go to "Settings" (gear icon).
- In the "Profile" tab, uncheck "Allow questions from unregistered users."
- There, uncheck the “Allow anonymous questions” checkbox.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "Save".
That's all, now you will only receive questions from those who are not shy about showing their faces.
So, how do you find out who is writing anonymously to Ask? As the site developers assure, it is impossible to obtain such information. Theoretically, however, one can argue with them. But it makes no sense to recommend a specific whistleblower program - there is no proven reliable software of this kind. In the vast majority of cases, by downloading such software, you will introduce a dangerous virus to your gadget.
There is a problem: someone wrote a post on your blog, how do you find out who this person is? Very simple - using its IP.
IP address (IP address, short for Internet Protocol Address) is a unique identifier (address) of a device (usually a computer) connected to local network or the Internet.
Traveling across the network, we leave our unique trace in the logs of the servers we visit. All we have to do is determine the well-wisher’s IP and use it to calculate the places he visits. Using these clues (login, nickname, email, mobile, address), you can create an approximate composite photo. Most often it is possible to access your personal page “In Contacts”. Email, the “Contacts” page can be broken, but we will limit ourselves to legal methods - namely, a targeted search for information on the Internet.
So let's start with IP. If you have a blog like I do, you probably have a free counter on it. Except useful property count the number of visits, the counter, as a rule, collects other information about visitors - their IP, time of visit, basic information about his computer (OS, browser version, etc.).
How does this happen? When visiting your page, the user's browser downloads its skeleton from the server on which it is located. After that, the browser loads all the pictures and additions from the main site, as well as other sites on which they are posted. There is a trick here - in order to display the counter image on its own, the client’s browser must send a request to the server that provides the counting service - and it does this. At this time, the server easily determines and records who asked for the drawing (IP), the time it was and other information that the client provides.
Here's what the counter field looks like on my blog:
Seemingly simple drawings, but everything is not so simple:
If you look inside the page, this block contains the following code.
I underlined the addresses to which your browser is sent every time you load my page. At these addresses there is a processor that collects information about you.
There is no need to be scared - almost all sites contain counters and there is no escape from this. Moreover, some sites regularly post (consciously or not) statistics on visits to their site, which means search spiders (google, yandex) have a copy of these pages. It turns out that everyone knows everything about everyone - all you have to do is use your brain a little.
A site that organizes visit counting provides the blogger with interesting statistical information about his blog, but in addition to beautiful graphs and numbers, the site contains a banal log
I changed all the IPs for the secrecy of my readers, but, as you can see, I see them in pure form.
It is worth starting an investigation from the time when the comment was left. Next, we should look in the counter log for the entry made +/- at this time. Using the counter, calculate the IP address. Using the IP address (if you're lucky, of course) you can find other traces left from the author's computer. There is a non-zero probability that in those traces there will be other clues (email, mobile phone, asya, nickname on the forum) - then we can say success.
I did this twice. The work is not easy and it is not certain that it will lead to a result (or the right result). In any case, be prepared that this will take several hours of your time. In addition, the IP address can change (be dynamic). But even here there are opportunities to get out, and since they are unique for each unique case, I did not describe them here. In the future, if the opportunity arises to find someone again, I will definitely describe the process...
Do you want to find out who left an anonymous opinion about you on social media? vkontakte networks? No problem!
This will require about 15 minutes of your time and a little imagination.
1. To get started, go to any postal service(yandex, google, mail.ru) and register 5-6 mailboxes there.
2. Next, go and register 5-6 accounts (pages) there with false names, just so that they are similar to existing ones (for example: Petr Tolochkin, Olesya Pakhomova, etc.), put an avatar on each page for greater authenticity and, of course, don't forget to hide them.
3. From one of these fake accounts, create new group, come up with a beautiful description for it so that people are interested in joining it, put an avatar on the group and, most importantly, make it closed so that they can only join with your permission.
4. Enroll the remaining 5-6 false accounts into the group and don’t forget to enroll YOUR REAL account (page) there too, so that there are 6-7 people in the group. All this will give greater credibility to the group.
5. Now comes the most important part! You have been sent an anonymous opinion, respond to the following text, for example, “And I know who you are! Gee gee gee))) Here is a link http://vkontakte.ru/groups.php?act=enter&gid=666 to the Favorite contact group, It says how you can find out who left an opinion!”, or something like that. The main thing is that the anonymous person buys and clicks on this link! By the way, pay attention to the numbers at the end of the link. This is id ( ID number) groups. They need to be replaced with your group id! Finding out the ID is very easy. Go to the group and in your browser (where the site address is) there will be something like this address http://vkontakte.ru/club491, where last digits- this is your group number. In principle, you can even send a link specifically to your group.
Attention! Now let's explain how it works! The fact is that when you follow a link like http://vkontakte.ru/groups.php?act=enter&gid=666 (instead of 666, insert your group number), the victim ends up on your closed group and automatically submits an application to join it! Next, you will just need to log in from a false account (from which you created the group, since it is an admin account), click “Edit information” -> “Participants” -> “Requests” and the same person who wrote an opinion about you!
And when you click on a link like http://vkontakte.ru/club491 (instead of “491” your group number), he may not want to join another group if he already has a lot of them. However, some believe that it is better to use this particular link, because when you click on another link, the victim may see that an application to join the group is sent automatically, but when you click on this link, this will not happen. So it's up to you.
By the way: Write the answer to the anonymous opinion yourself as you see fit. The main thing here is to intrigue the victim so that he/she falls for it and clicks on the link. You also need to write your answer as soon as possible, and not a year after the opinion was sent to you.
