I have a Yahoo Instant Messenger contact that claims to come from Japan. Is there a way to trace his Yahoo IM or Yahoo email to a certain country?
Is his email at yahoo.jp? That would be one way.
So simple…and the answer is no. It’s yahoo.com. Why do people have to be deceitful. Thanks for the help.
Well, that is no guarantee…I can sign up for a Yahoo.jp address from the US, and I can sign up for a Yahoo.com address from Japan.
If you can figure out a way to obtain his IP address, then you can check that pretty easily, though that isn’t a sure thing either.
A little social engineering can produce an IP address for you. Here’s how: basically, you open up a command window and then send a file.
Once you have the IP address, you can then find the country of origin. IP addresses can be spoofed though, as alluded to above.