OT; IP address?

[The Medway Handyman]

Some scumbag has tried to change my E Bay account details.

I have the IP address and the ISP host numbers, how do I find who it is, and to whom do I report them?

[Tim W]

The Medway Handyman wibbled on Monday 23 November 2009 20:08

whois IPADDRESS

(that's a unix/linux command - may or may not exist on Windows)

or

it in the IP box down the bottom right. It may not do any good - you might just get a large block range owned by AOL or somesuch. But if you get a University, chances of administering a bollocking is much better.

[Ash]

Erm ... eBay ?

[The Medway Handyman]

TBH they don't seem to give a sh*t.

BTDT - diddn't get a tee shirt.

[Ash]

Strange .. they've always been really helpful when I've needed to contact them ... have you tried contacting them via

?

[Andrew Gabriel]

Frankly, if they didn't give a shit, no one else will either. Don't waste your time any further.

[Ash]

Have you tried the Directgov website for help, advice and reporting Identity Theft?

[fred]

Their ISP is really the only one who can make their life difficult and a well worded complaint should, depending on the ISP, give the guy a fright at least.

Are you sure of your information on the IP address and do you have the time of the attempt from some verifiable source?

[Andy Champ]

Start here

address in China stop.

Andy

[The Medway Handyman]

Tried that &

is, too much information, most of which I don't understand.

Would it be wise/acceptable to post the numbers here?

[Andy Burns]

It doesn't ... so instead feed the IP address into but (directed to TMH) don't necessarily expect to trace a person from an IP address.

[fred]

In article , The Medway Handyman writes

Yes, post all you have and the source of the information, it's useless without knowing where it came from and how reliable it is.

[R.Clarke]

That was very big of you. Getting all your friends to write letters to your ex-girl friend's employer in an effort to get her sacked. Just because she said some nasty things about you on some web-forum or another.

If it wasn't for the fact that it's all a great big lie.

For your information sunshine, people in the real world such as employers don't take a blind bit of notice of letters, or emails, or phone calls from what are quite obviously, internet loonies trying to get even. They all go straight in the bin.

While the fact that you seriously expect to be belived is even more laughable.

Robin

[R.Clarke]

Presumably eBay will already know as it was they who will have supplied the OP with the IP and ISP info. By way of checking whether the change of details actually came from him, or not.

Robin

[The Medway Handyman]

OK. I recieved a message from E Bay about a password change confirmation:-

"The password change request was made from:

a.. IP address: 77.96.243.253 b.. ISP host: 10.11.64.246 "

I subsequently discovered various address's, (inc Pay Pal) had been changed to Dorset, Dublin, New York & Nigeria!

[Tim W]

The Medway Handyman wibbled on Monday 23 November 2009 22:20

Yes, or email me at [e-mail] (home email in tatters this week, rebuilding firewalls and routers and stuff since the move)

[Harry Bloomfield]

Dave,

Can I ask have you at anytime clicked on a link in an email seeing to have come from ebay or paypal and the page it has loaded has seemed to look like the ebay login page?

In other words what is known as a phishing email?

[Tim W]

The Medway Handyman wibbled on Monday 23 November 2009 23:05

This is the bit from whois that matters:

role: Telewest Broadband IP Network Services address: Genesis Business Park address: Albert Drive address: Woking address: Surrey UK address: GU21 5RW e-mail: [e-mail] remarks: To report abuse: remarks: file an online case @

- it's a TeleWest broadband customer and you can post an abuse report at I'd be surprised if they did anything. I suspect, unless the police get involved, they only deal with the same customer generating a mountain of complaints.

That's no use here - IP's beginning with 10.x.x.x, 192.168.x.x and (losely but not strictly accurate) 172.16.x.x are private ranges that can never legitimately appear on the public internet, so I'm guessing it's an internal IP in TeleWest or ebay.

No surprise on teh last entry. Have you lost any dosh? More imprtantly, do you have control of your ebay and paypal accounts again and have you set new, hard, passwords?

Cheers

Tim

[Tim W]

Andy Burns wibbled on Monday 23 November 2009 22:24

You can tell how often I boot Windows these days!

Indeed. I do have my own IPv4 block so you could trace me, for example. But most customers get random IPs from their ISP, and the random IP can change over time. In practice, given an IP and an accurate date/time, the ISP can determine who it might be (subject to whether their local end net allows IP spoofing or not).

[The Medway Handyman]

Hard to tell Harry, I might well have done even though I'm of a suspicious nature.

I get so many e mails from E Bay & Pay Pal I simply don't know which to trust. As a result I rarely use either.