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On social networks, users receive a lot of information about a person from his account. Everyone who registers is given a unique individual ID number. It remains forever even after the profile is deleted. Using it, you can find out information about place of residence, year of birth, and more, if the person indicated the information on the page. In this material we will tell you how to find out where a person lives on VK using services and applications. Let’s look at the question of what an IP address and page ID are on a popular social network.
What is an IP address and page ID on VKontakte?
Many people have heard the terms IP and ID, but most have not thought about what they are. Let's figure it out in order. The abbreviation IP stands for Internet Protocol. This is the address of a network node on the Internet, which is unique. Devices with network access find connections and exchange information. These are personal computers, phones, tablet computers. If you have information about the IP address, you will find out a lot about the device from which the citizen accessed the Internet:
- Country of residence.
- City, town.
- Internet service provider.
- Operating system.
- The browser from which you accessed the network.
All this is useful information, but it concerns the device and its technical characteristics. You will not learn the necessary information about the user himself. As for the VKontakte ID, this term stands for user identification number. It reveals information about the person, not the device. To be precise, you will find out the data specified by him in the account.
What do operators offer?
As we have already said, every mobile operator considers it a duty of honor to provide a number direction finding service . Traditionally, these services are provided for a fee , but their cost is not at all high.
Such services can be activated using USSD requests, using IVR, through a personal account on the operator’s website or in stores. This can be done legally only with the consent of the subscriber himself , but it can be done without it, if you hold his phone in your hands for a minute or two. You can find out information about a person’s location by receiving it on your mobile phone in the form of SMS or by installing a special application.
from MegaFon
Radar service from MegaFon
To activate the service, you need to send a USSD request *140# or on the website m.navigator.megafon.ru . You can find out where the phone you are looking for is located there or using a USSD request *140*7xxxxxxxxxx# (where 7xxxxxxxxxx is the phone number of the subscriber you are looking for). The cost of the service is 3 rubles. / day. You can also track subscribers of other networks.
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Connection from Tele2
TELE2 also provides a similar service.
The service is activated by USSD request *119*01# . To enable tracking, dial *119*1*7xxxxxxxxxx# . For information about where the phone is located, dial *119*2*7xxxxxxxxxx# . The cost is 3 rubles. / day .
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Connection from Beeline
Beeline also allows its subscribers to track loved ones.
To connect to this service, you should send an empty SMS to 5166 and download the Locator . The cost of the service is 7 rubles. / day . You can track up to 5 numbers.
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Connection from MTS
MTS also keeps up with its competitors.
The service is activated by USSD request *111*788# . To add tracked subscribers, you need to send an SMS to the short number 6677 , for example: “ADB Daughter 89157654321”. The cost of the service is 100 rubles per month . You can also track Megafon subscribers.
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Here you need to understand one important thing : when providing this service, mobile service providers use the same geolocation across base stations , that is, the problems will be the same. The coordinates will be given with a large error , and if in the city center, where there are many towers, it will be only 100-200 meters, then outside the city - in a forest or industrial zone, it is no longer possible . Plus, if the mobile phone is turned off for one reason or another, it will not work , and you can determine a person’s location in this way no more than once every five minutes.
Methods for finding a person's location by ID
To find out information about a person by page ID on the VKontakte website, use special services and a mobile application.
Services
You can find out the user's location if you use special services: Whois and IPLogger. This can be done free of charge. The Whois service provides accurate information. With its help, you will find out the city of residence of the owner ID and the street, but with a small error. As for IPLogger, you need to automatically generate a link so that the user clicks on it. You need to send him a message or leave a comment on the wall in the form of a trap link.
Mobile app
If you know the ID of the desired page, then use the Kate Mobile application to search for information about its owner. The algorithm of actions is as follows:
Turn on the application, and then using the main menu, you need to open the section at the top of the panel and click on the icon in the form of horizontal dots. If you see Kate Mobile at the top, then you opened it correctly.
- In the list of sections, click on the “Open link” column.
- A field will appear requiring you to insert the ID of the user you are looking for.
- Now click on the “OK” button to open the page of the desired person.
- You will see all the data specified in the ID owner's profile.
To find out detailed information about the user, open the “Interests” section. Study the sections of your account and learn a lot of useful information.
you won't find it this way
Of course, the more base stations there are, the more accurately the system can determine where the owner of the number you are looking for is located, but, for example, you will not find a grandfather who has gone mushroom picking: if there are 2-3 stations , and he himself occupies an area a hundred kilometers, certain coordinates will be very, very inaccurate.
the telecom operator himself can determine the location of the phone by number as accurately as possible , but he will only do this upon request from the police or other competent authorities, and we all know how these same authorities work in our country. In the time it takes for them to move the pieces of paper from one pile to another, the phone will run out of charge and the attacker will disappear .
However, mobile service providers offer special services to find out the location of a person without violating the law, that is, with the consent of the owner of the number.
Peculiarities
If a person uses a VPN or an anonymizer program, then the services described in the article will not help you. You won't be able to get the information you need. Never resort to the help of “specialists” who offer to find out information about a person by his ID for a fee. Usually these are scammers. There is no need to use illegal methods to obtain user data.
The VK network is well protected, but it is still possible for experienced hackers to hack it. If you are found out, the consequences may be negative. If you have been defrauded online for a serious amount, contact the police. She will quickly find out the location of the fraudster and take appropriate action. Violating the law is strictly not recommended.
Geolocation will help
Most people today know what geolocation . This is determining the exact location of an object using various technologies, such as satellite networks (GPS or GLONASS), as well as LBS (Location Based Service) - determining the location of a mobile phone using base station signals , using the reverse geodetic survey method. In the case of determining a person’s location by number, this option is usually used.
Geolocation can help you find a person by mobile phone number
The main advantage of this method of geolocation is the lack of connection to satellite systems , but there is also a drawback: it is not possible to accurately determine the location of the desired device. This depends on the type of network, and a certain coordinate point may be erroneous, and the error here is not 200 meters, but several kilometers. Although, you might get lucky.
At the moment, it is not easy to reliably find out a person’s location on social networks ( VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Mail.ru, Facebook , etc.). The location can be found by the Internet provider and, in particular, by the IP address that is issued to the user’s device. You can find out the IP address, but its exact location is difficult to find out. Usually this is limited to the city, but it happens that the provider’s equipment providing the Internet is located in another place and, accordingly, the location of the IP address and the person will be determined with significant inaccuracies. Also, this method is not applicable to users surfing the Internet through anonymizers or proxies, because these methods replace IP addresses.
But most people do not use various methods of anonymity on the Internet and, based on the above, to determine the location, including without the consent of the interlocutor, you need to do the following:
1. find out the user's IP address;
2. determine the location of this IP address.
You can find out a person’s IP address by asking him, in particular, asking him to go to sites that determine IP addresses and provide it. But in most cases, you need to determine the location so that the interlocutor does not know about it.
Therefore, you need to resort to so-called “ social engineering ”. Social engineering is a way of obtaining any data from a user on the Internet by interacting with him (conversation, exchanging links, etc.)
We need the user to follow a specific link and thereby transmit the IP address and, along with it, his location. At the moment, the most suitable free service for solving the required problem is iplogger.ru . We go to it and in the “ Link / Picture ” section we enter some link to an interesting resource, news, picture, which we will later share with our interlocutor.
For example, insert a link to this article and click get logger code. Then we generate and copy a short link from Google. This is what I got https://goo.gl/oudzxI To check the method, it is recommended to follow this link and check the functionality of the method and unsubscribe in the comments. After clicking on this link, the service will determine your IP address and automatically recognize its location. To view this data, you need to know the so-called logger: for our example it is bhr5d2iEc4 (produced automatically, see at the top of the service). You can go to the main iplogger website, enter this logger and view statistics on it.
What to do with the link? It is necessary that the interlocutor clicks on the link. After he transfers, you need to go to the iplogger website (or a similar service) and check the user’s location. The link can be shared anywhere you can, in any social network, mail or messenger.
The information received will help protect you from various kinds of scammers (extortionists) or simply keep your location incognito from your friends without clicking on random links, or vice versa, using a method to find out the location of friends.
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