Identifying a Facebook users address from an IP?

**RobW** · 17th October 2010, 18:50

Someone has made a facebook profile about my boss and it is obviously not him and nobody will admit who started it.

Anyway of finding out any info from an IP addy and if it is possible to get the IP?!

**rushy** · 17th October 2010, 18:52

Just input the email addresses into the search bar of who you might think it will be and it will take you to there Facebook account that the address is linked to. Also you cant have 2 facebook account on on email account.

**Hideous** · 17th October 2010, 18:58

I'll take a stab and say no way, not just from an IP address (internet protocol) unless you were one hell of a hacker, or in the police/government.
It could be dangerous if "joe public" could access that kind of info.

edit: maybe take this up with facebook? If you're sure someone is impersonating someone else, then that can't be legal.

**Big-Pete** · 17th October 2010, 19:00

Goto Whatismyipaddress.com and enter the IP it will give you some info such as area and Internet Provider etc, ie Rob I can see your ISP is BT..

**RobW** · 17th October 2010, 19:05

Originally Posted by Big-Pete

Goto Whatismyipaddress.com and enter the IP it will give you some info such as area and Internet Provider etc, ie Rob I can see your ISP is BT..

lol - says I am in Falkirk!

Trying to access the account but its not easy.

**Hideous** · 17th October 2010, 19:07

the area that will show is where your internet provider's server is based. Could be miles away - mine is about 200 miles from my town

**the-wizard** · 17th October 2010, 19:20

Originally Posted by RobW

lol - says I am in Falkirk!

Trying to access the account but its not easy.

replace your ip add in the box with the 1 you want to trace, it gives long/lat info.

**boba** · 18th October 2010, 03:25

You can sometimes tell who someone is from their IP address (if they have a fixed IP address and if their IP provider registers the info) but more commonly for individuals the only info available is that of their IP provider.

For instance I use PlusNet and my IP address comes up as London (I'm in Fife) but if I log in when I'm at work it comes up as my employer of course.

**Exclusive BV** · 20th October 2010, 21:32

There is no way you will be able to trace this person yourself. unless...............

you somehow gained access to the facebook servers and found the ip of the user account which posted the profile. This information will sit somewhere inside one of the many logs held on the server.

Then you will need to find out whether the ip is static (e.g Cable) or dynamically assigned by the ISP (e.g. ADSL).

As was stated above, it is sometimes possible to find out the owner of a static IP address (not always).

if its dynamic, then you'll need to ask the ISP for the details of the person to whom the IP address was assigned at the time. This is information that they will never divulge without good reason.

Yes you can trace an e-mail address to a server but this will only provide the details of the server that the account sits on, not the actual person in most cases.

**rjw** · 22nd October 2010, 16:19

it will be quite a challenge as said above, it is however illegal to start and run a social network page pretending to be someone else, this is due to child protection related stuff, i.e. start a page pretending to be 15 and your actually 50!