A serious legal matter

  • A friend has been arrested for attempting to cash several checks that turned out to be forged. The provider of these checks is only known to him through an e-mail exchange. All information in these e-mails also turned out to be false. Can this individual be traced using the ip addresses contained in these e-mails. If so, is there a company that provides this service and can provide this information to his local law enforcement agencies?


  • Sorry. Let me turn my keyboard around and see if I can type that more clearly: You sound uncertain as to whether or not you are willing to accept my alternative suggestion answer, so I will leave the question open for a while and see if someone might have some useful information to your original question before I attempt to answer with information about a private investigiator. tutuzdad-ga


  • In spite of my best efforts I have come up short. Hopefully someone else will know more about this subject and will offer to help you. Regards; tutuzdad-ga


  • If you tell me what state and county you are in I will try to see if I can find a private investigator for you who is knowledgeable in computer forensics and able to give you a consultation, if you will accept that as an answer. tutuzdad-ga


  • Just a sidebar on that A B I K A link...Are they an email Vortex? I mean, to "Get a Report" they just want *YOUR* email address....Caution.


  • My friend lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I live in King County, Washington, USA. This is at least a start.


  • A sidebar added in comments was a little disturbing but their point was taken. I'm ready for your final answer regarding the private investigator. However, I now don't have much confidence in that a private investigator can be of much help.


  • Please see my reply in comments. Again thanks.


  • You sould uncertain as to wther or not you are willing yet to accept my suggegstion about a PI as an answer, so I will leave the question open and see if someone might have some useful information to your original question before I attempt to answer with information about a private investigiator. tutuzdad-ga


  • and A B I K A have been mentioned in a complaint to the USA's ftc (ftc.gov) asking it to investigate it and its data broker cohorts. and finally, A B I K A is a Wyoming corporation which potentially makes it EVEN harder to locate the beneficial owners. http://www.corporationstoday.com/


  • www.epic.org http://www.epic.org/privacy/iei/ftccomplaint.html


  • lol I have the same problem when my keyboard turns over. Of course, this is first time I have been involved in something like this and I'm not quite sure what I should do. I go along with your recommendation but I do want to get back with him within a couple of days. Thanks for your assistance.


  • There are websites and services that will track a IP address back to a given computer. Often times they are not reliable because IP addresses are dynamically given to users and change often. Your best chance is to use http://www.abika.com/Reports/verifyemail.htm Also the ISP the email originated from may have a record of who was assigned to that IP address when the email was sent. It is also possible the IP has been spoofed. That is forged, and will be useless in locating the person.







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