Finding Out Who Someone Is On Facebook?

forgotmyname

More like a lodger that keeps changing the channel when your watching a film and turning the TV off will stop them. You dont get to watch the film though.

Not a fan of facebook, it used to be so insecure i could change your password by just knowing your email address. I didnt even need access to your email address. A few people were shocked when i did that.

Then they started with theonly allowing friends etc. Again this was easy to bypass because certain other countried didnt have this feature due to their local laws. So log in using another .fr etc.. and you could access profiles of anyone even if they had it set to friends only...

Then the apps and games that steal all your data... Madness.

Grabify works by the culprit clicking a link, yes? How do you know who clicked the link though?

paddyrg

If you're a bit canny, you can post photos from your own server and log the heck out of them. It'll help you form a profile of which is most likely which person/friend until you know which is the miscreant IP.

They may connect through a VPN or similar, but if it's been a few years they may be complacent. The thing to bear in mind is it might be someone you already know, so their IP may be common with a different friend. Not necessarily a nice thing to find out

esuhl

takman wrote: »

But this isn't a case of the person simply not liking Facebook, they have someone who is deliberately misusing it to harass them.

How can someone harass you on Facebook? You can just ignore them. I don't get it... :-/

takman

esuhl wrote: »

How can someone harass you on Facebook? You can just ignore them. I don't get it... :-/

Exactly my point in post #3 they can block them and stop people seeing their profile quite easily. My response was In reply to people who think they should stop using Facebook because of this!

onomatopoeia99

AngelEyes81 wrote: »

I know that an IP logger like Grabify could get their IP address right? But that would only give you the location of the server wouldn't it? Not the persons actual location?

Only if you can get them to click on the grabify link you create. Even if you had an IP address, you would need to go to a court and apply for a Norwich Pharmacal order against the ISP to force them to reveal subcriber details, assuming they weren't using a VPN.

googler

takman wrote: »

If you started being harassed by a person on this forum and they were creating multiple accounts and posting information about you and sending you abusive PM's would you simply be happy to just stop using the forum?

Yup. In an instant. MSE is not an ESSENTIAL in my life.

Besides which, I can create multiple accounts as easily as they can. I'd just come back as someone different. Still a possibility on Facebook.

takman

googler wrote: »

Yup. In an instant. MSE is not an ESSENTIAL in my life.

Besides which, I can create multiple accounts as easily as they can. I'd just come back as someone different. Still a possibility on Facebook.

My point is that I don't think someone should stop using a something they want to just because someone is trying to stop them. I definitely don't think MSE is an essential thing in my life but if someone was actively trying to stop me using it I wouldn't just roll over and let them succeed.

AndyPix

If you really really want to find out who this person is (although if it were me then I would just block them and change your security settings so that only friends can see your stuff)


Then drop me a PM, Ill help you get a reverse meterpreter shell running on their PC and then we can have a dig around on their system. Im sure their name or some photos/documents on their hard drive would let you know who it is.


All this is purely hypothetical of course, as the above wouldn't be strictly legal

culpepper

Block the bully (they dont get notified but will soon work it out when they cant see or comment) and check that only 'friends' posts are visible,not 'friends of friends' . FB dont guarantee that blocked people wont see your own posts if a friend has not set 'friends only' because if they should comment on 'the bullied persons' post it may still show up but it helps a lot with reducing clandestine bullying .
Suggesting trusted friends also block the bully may help if that is an option. You can also just hide the bully's posts without blocking or unfriending them but that only hides their own spontaneous status posts I believe and wont stop their posting maliciously.
Perhaps starting a closed group and inviting only trusted friends would work?

bod1467

AndyPix wrote: »

All this is purely hypothetical of course, as the above wouldn't be strictly legal

That's putting it mildly. I believe it would be entirely illegal ... Computer Misuse Act 1990?