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| Thread ID: 37546 | 2003-09-10 08:57:00 | Internet to Mobile Abusive Text messages | Rod ger (316) | Press F1 |
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| 174441 | 2003-09-12 09:33:00 | Current ICQ numbers are 9 characters long, and these will be the last digits of the number you have. Older ICQ numbers can be 8 characters or less but these days numbers with fewer than 9 digits are rare. The first two will be the country code (useless because it simply gives the country of origin of the ICQ server, not the sender). Download the full version of ICQ (www.icq.com) and register yourself. Once you're in, click the Add button, put in the last 8 or 9 digits of the number and click add. This just searches, it doesn't actually add the user to your contact list. When you get a result, right click on it and select users details. If your daughter recognises who it is, then bingo. :) But the txter could also have registered an anonymous account (false details) which would make tracing him a lot more difficult. You'd have to contact ICQ and get the ip address that registered the account, or the last known ip address that he used. Armed with this information and the time/date that he had this IP, you can run a name service lookup (nslookup) to find out which ISP he uses. Then it is simply a matter of contacting the ISP and informing them of the abuse. |
AlexF (2316) | ||
| 174442 | 2003-09-12 09:38:00 | Thanks Alex, I'm on my way!! | Rod ger (316) | ||
| 174443 | 2003-09-12 09:43:00 | Very good alex, you summed it up perfectly. Although the ISP won't actually reveal the name of the person giving you abuse (you would need a court order for them to do that), but they will give the person a good warning. | PoWa. (3243) | ||
| 174444 | 2003-09-12 10:23:00 | While looking to download ICQ I came across this (www.thetrainingco.com). Ipresume this does the same thing without having to do it the long way?? Anyway putting a nine digit number in just causes a reload reducing thenumber to the last eight letters produces some portugese guy in Lagos( not a good candidate). Reducing it futher to seven numbers produces a profile with no details whatsoever. Could this be it? I'll put up the number,minus the last two numerals, just to see if it looks OK to you. It is 8869177428165** |
Rod ger (316) | ||
| 174445 | 2003-09-12 10:56:00 | Well actually, the number the message appears to be from may not be the users ICQ number. Just to prove this (without giving out my ICQ number), an SMS message I send from ICQ will appear to come from the number +886917742884958 While my ICQ number does start with 177, the rest of the numbers are a jumble of some of the remaining numbers from my ICQ numbers, and some other numbers. Just for anyone who cares, +88 is from Taiwan, I think it was. And the message will most likely have gone through the message centre +886936000097, unlike Vodafone's +6421600600 (or +6421600650, etc, like ending with 660). |
agent (30) | ||
| 174446 | 2003-09-12 13:23:00 | Surely though, just contacting ICQ.com admin's with the txt number will let them work some magic, because the txt number is linked to the ICQ account somehow, whether its noticable to us, or if they simply match up random numbers with account XYZ IYKWIM. Either way, try and contact the ICQ Spam service! |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 174447 | 2003-09-12 21:18:00 | Yes it does seem the only resort. We'll do the abuse@ICQ thing, when we get a result I'll post back and let you know how it went. | Rod ger (316) | ||
| 174448 | 2003-09-12 21:34:00 | Yup, the abuse at ICQ is definitely the way to go... they SHOULD be able to give you the ICQ user... then you can add in the ICQ user and see who it is??! Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
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