I need help

[heartless]

hello friends ... I need help,

I m having a friend since a year ... whenever I PM her.. I get a reply that she is not my friend.. but she is my friend's friend.. but the way she types her word & the language on the PM window... indicates that she is correct person & she is hiding herself from me ... dunno for wut reason .. & whenever I ask her on phone she says the same thing ... that it was her friend who was online.. Not she..

I just want to know a way to find out if I m wrong or not... BTW.. I have her IP address which I got under the header part from her email sended to me & she doesnt use any dialup so she has a fix IP... any help ????

[tangledlisa]

Sounds like instead of a computer problem, someone is playing mind games with you. If your "friend" is a friend and wants to continue talking with you I'll guarantee she gets in contact with you. Sounds like you've done what you can - try asking the friend of the friend (wow, confusing) if she has created a new user name or how you can get in touch with her. Dont go hacking - even try contacting her under a different screen name.

[shifter]

Having her IP won't help you. IP addresses can only give you the location of her ISP, so there would still be now way of knowing who it is. If your still curious, you can run a whois search on her IP here. But remember that will only turn up her ISP's address, which may not even be in the same city.

Your problem here is trust. Either you are paranoid, or your friend is testing your loyalty to her by pretending to be someone else. My advice is to play along, eventually the truth will reveal itself. Don't be stupid and try to find out by other illegal means. That would be a surefire way to lose your friend, whether she is lying or not.

[heartless]

tangledlisa - Ofcourse she talks with me on phone but not sure why she denies me on Yahoo messenger..

shifter - Thanks for your reply. But by knowing her IP address I mean to ask that is there any way to match both the IP address. Let me explain, suppose the IP address of my friend (that I m having with me) is 000.000.00.00 (just an example). If some how I get to know the IP address of the person who comes online & says that she is her friend, then I can match both the IP address & see if it is from the same computer or not.

I dont mind giving the person wut she want. But there is always a reason behind everything & I want to know that. But I m afraid of loosing my friend. So I dont want to sound stupid if I m wrong.