i have been geting a lot of messages lately from people on yahoo who are saying they are either from london, or some women from somwhere in the us saying they are in nigeria. they are looking to start chating and then say they want to get togeter either have mo go to them or them come to me for marrage, dateing, liveing together or whatever. they say they want me to give them my bank account number plus full name address etc. so they can send money to pay for the travel expences.
my problem is how do i tell a legitimate person who found me on a dateing sight and someone who is trying to scam me. is there some utility that i can use to trace thier IP address so i can determan if they are where they say they are from or if they are a scamer so i can report them to the FBI's internation scam department. i am not looking to hack thier system and dont need the last digits of thier IP address just the first 3 of the 4 numbers so i can see where thier IP is located.
if someone knows of such a utility it would help me a lot and would allso help me report and stop thies scamers from defrauding other less tech savvy people on the net. as a pc tech and tutor i know how important it is to protect people from thies scamers who make the internet a dangerous place to be.
roy sherrill
royofmarshfield@charter.net
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