I have a friend who is being harassed and threatened semi-anonymously via Facebook. She knows *who* it is, but Facebook and Police are characteristically being uselss.
I am kinda useless at this side of deanonymization, but does anyone have advice or resources for deanonymizing enough to get cops to move?
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in reply to silverwizard • • •"Facebook" -- find the error.
The only valid advice is:
LEAVE F.C.BOOK for good.
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in reply to silverwizard • • •that sounds like a horrible situation. I'm a little confused how she could be being harassed on FB if she's made her account Friends Only and then unfriended anyone who is nasty, though. You don't have to be wide open to the public, there (unless you are trying to run a business).
Locking her account down only addresses stopping that avenue for the harasser, though. It doesn't address getting the cops to handle threats. But is her harasser using multiple FB accounts?
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in reply to silverwizard • • •@silverwizard Facebook requires users to use their legal name, so you can report any account with pseudonym and they have a chance to be locked until the user submits a government ID and their display name will be changed to what’s written on it.
It won’t directly address the harassment but it might help with the identification part of the police process.
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in reply to silverwizard • • •The hell about this is someone goes, "I have a credible threat from this person" and the police response is "Well, did you already do the investigation?"
And now I'm out here trying to be calm, rational, and legal because I don't want to ruin things.
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in reply to Rivetgeek (He/Him) • • •@Rivetgeek (He/Him) Restraining orders suuuuuuck in Ontario - but it's possible. You kinda need to prove immediate harm - but that's hard and the system is saying that it can't prove who it is >.<
A rare time when US restraining orders are the good things.
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in reply to silverwizard • • •if you can host a file on a site where you can look at the access logs and then post a link to that file, you might be able to bait them into downloading the file which could give you their IP address in the access logs. A whois search for the IP address.could get you their ISP and geolocation information on the IP could get you the general area.
That's a lot of "ifs" and "coulds", though.
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in reply to Jim Jones • • •from there, of the police still won't do something, it turns to filing court orders to get information from the IP holders about who had the IP at the time of access and harassment.
Good luck.
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