There is a proven way to find out the IP address of a person on VKontakte (VK): as a result, you will find out the location of your counterpart, which means you will partially verify the authenticity of his profile. The data will be useless when the interlocutor uses a VPN or an anonymizer that substitutes a “fake” IP.
Most VKontakte users believe that information can be obtained from profile data. This is incorrect, since it is impossible to calculate the IP address in VK by ID. This is classified information and if you encounter scammers or blackmail, contact law enforcement agencies. Only upon official instructions from the administration to provide a person’s data. Therefore, the answer to the question of whether it is possible to find out a person’s IP address from a page on VK is unequivocal - no.
How to find out through VK where a person is - is it possible or not?
All users are assigned an individual serial number at the time of registration. It is unique and unique and is not shared with other users even after the account is deleted. You can use two ways to determine the location of the account owner - by the address in the browser line and through a social network.
Should I use email for this?
A way to find out data using email is often described, but it does not work. You can get an address, but in reality it will belong to the mail server and will not match the one we need. How to check:
- Persuade a VKontakte (VK) user to send you a message to Gmail.
- Open it.
- Find additional menu on the right, click on it and select the line “Show original”.
- The loaded page will contain the code of the letter, and at the top the IP from where it came.
If you find out the IP address of a VK user from a link and compare the results, you will see a complete discrepancy between them.
How to calculate location using VK in profile
Before finding a person’s location through VK, it is recommended that you familiarize yourself with the sequence of actions:
- Open user page.
- Examine personal information.
If the user has hidden personal data from strangers, then this method becomes irrelevant.
How to find out the VKontakte page ID?
ID is a unique identification number assigned to each registered person within a social network. Finding it is not difficult - these are numbers or Latin characters in the address bar of the browser after the / (slash) symbol when going to the main VK page of the user you are looking for.
For example, when you get to the desired page you see https://vk.com/id80489534, then the id is 80489534. If for some reason you cannot find the ID in the above way, then there is an option to go to the page entries, then the last characters in The browser's address bar will also contain ID characters.
Let's move on to the main question of the article: is it possible, knowing the ID, to find out the IP of a VKonakte user? Using cunning and not entirely legal maneuvers, this can be done.
Identification by IP address
You can find out where a person is on VK using their IP address. This method does not work in all cases, but in extreme cases, it can still be used. IP is a unique page number not on a social network, but on the Internet itself.
Please note that social networks try to hide this kind of information in order to increase privacy. To calculate the location, it is recommended to use a trick:
- Use one of the online sniffers, for example IPLogger. First, you need to automatically generate a link that the desired user should follow. To do this, you need to send a trap link in a message or post a trap link on the wall as a comment.
- Try to transfer the dialogue from social networks to mail.ru. You can track your location through email, since this service does not hide it.
You can find out the necessary information about the account owner by IP using a specialized service. The most accurate and functional is Whois. Using the site, you can find out not only the city, but also approximately find out on which street the owner of the ID lives. This method is only relevant if the user does not use an anonymizer or VPN.
Option 2: Social Engineering Tools
If there is no hope of solving your problem and you still want to find out a person’s IP address, then there are several options that cannot be called honest. But in the fight against intruders, any method is probably good. Therefore, we will tell you what you can try, but you will do this at your own peril and risk.
- Hack an attacker's VKontakte account. This is just theoretical advice. We don’t know how to do this and we don’t recommend doing this. Surely there are people on the Internet who provide similar services. Having hacked an account, you can find your browsing history, where you can see the IP of the account owner.
- Use the 2IP Spy service. The essence of the service is that by giving someone a picture to view, you can get the IP address of the person who opened the picture. On the service page, find a link to the image. Send a link to this picture to the person whose IP address you need to determine. This can be done, for example, through personal messages or try to post this picture on the wall of this person on VKontakte. When the picture is viewed, you will see on the 2IP Spy page the IP address of the VKontakte user.
- You can try to turn communication with the attacker into email correspondence. If the correspondence will be via Email, then you can use the method described in point 2 by sending the 2IP Spy picture via Email. This way you will be absolutely sure that the IP address obtained using this service belongs to the right person. You can also determine the IP address by Email headers using our service Determining IP Address by Email. The headers of an Email message contain various service information and very often you can find the sender's IP address there.
That's all that can be done. It is impossible to determine the IP address of a VKontakte user by ID on your own or with the help of some services.
If in the end, one way or another, you received an IP address, then all the information that can be obtained by IP address can be found on the page
Services that can help you track your location
You can use additional applications to calculate your location. The most popular are the ones mentioned above - Whois and IPLogger. You can use the software for free. Applications are freely available and do not require lengthy registration in the system.
Additional ways to determine a user's address:
- Open photo. With photographs, as a rule, geotags are loaded, defining both the city and more precise coordinates.
- Open the list of groups. Most users subscribe to those public pages that correspond to their location
- Friend list. You can calculate your location based on photos you shared with friends in which the user you are looking for is tagged.
You can get the necessary information about the owner of a social network account in any convenient way. It is recommended that you first familiarize yourself with the sequence of actions so that no difficulties arise in the process.
You should not use those who perform the task on a paid basis. You can find out the location yourself by being smart. There are no other ways to clarify the required information. Using paid services you can only get similar information.
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.
What to do with someone else's IP address?
Now, after receiving the IP, you can determine the location of the person you need. To do this, open the whoer.net service and in the Whois section indicate the received IP. You will immediately be shown information about the location of the device.
Check IP
Perhaps you yourself received similar messages and your IP was checked in the same way. So be careful when you access different links on websites.
Finding a user by photo
To do this, follow these steps:
- Open the photo posted by him personally. Since information is only visible here about the place where it was taken, it is better to choose home photos;
- See if it is geotagged. They are indicated under the “Like” button.
If the address is indicated on a recent photograph, and the place on it is located in the city where you live, consider yourself lucky. It is easy to find a person using these coordinates. In the same way, look at the location on photos in albums and on avatars.
If you don't want to be found in the same way, turn off location display in the page settings. Also remove any marks you have already made on the uploaded photos.
This won’t take much time, since you can delete a geotag in just three clicks:
- Open the photo;
- Select “Specify a location” by clicking on the “More” button;
- On the map that opens, click “Delete place.”
The new setting will be saved automatically.
How to identify a person through the VK website
The first thing you can find out from the known />
You will receive exactly as much data as the ID owner wishes to show. VKontakte allows you to display different amounts of information to friends, other social network users, and unregistered visitors.
Some people hide their pages completely:
Let's look at an example. The screenshot below No. 1 shows what a person from the account owner’s friends list sees, and No. 2 shows an unregistered user. In the second screenshot, the blocks “Friends”, “Videos”, “Career”, “Education”, “Military Service”, “Worldviews”, “Preferences” and “Hobbies” are missing.
Find out the maximum from the VK user page
Basic data about a person is stored in the most visible place - at the top of his personal profile. If you are not yet familiar with the social network VKontakte, the instructions below will help you figure it out.
If you haven't received the information you need:
- Offer the account owner a friendship. This may be enough for the VKontakte service to show you everything that is on its page.
- If the first option does not work, find an excuse and make friends with one of the friends of the person you are interested in. Friends of friends can also see more than everyone else.
Obtaining reliable data about the location of the ID owner
As you already know, VK users can indicate lies in their profiles. But there is information that is quite difficult to fake. For example, geotags - information about the place where photographs were created that the user posted on his page.
Modern smartphones always add geotags, unless the owner has disabled this option in the settings. However, they may not exist if the pictures are processed in photo editors.
How to find out someone else's IP address on VKontakte: methods
Method 1
There is a completely legal way to look up someone else's IP address without breaking the rules. It consists of persuading a person to send an email. For example, you can say that you have a very important matter with him and it can only be resolved by email or ask him to send a picture or document there. In other words, your task is to persuade the user to communicate with you by email.
If everything worked out for you, then consider it done. All that remains is to look at the service data in the letter. This is done in any email program and it begins with the following lines:
Service data
The information we need is in the fourth line at the very end. This is the information we need. By the way, you can view data from any social network in a similar way.
Method 2
You can also look at someone else's IP by creating special links. First, it is created using a service for collecting IP addresses. You can use IP Logger. To create a link, click “Link/Image” and place any link in the field. After that, click “Get logger code”.
IP Logger
- Now you need to save the logger ID so that you can see the transitions based on it.
- To complete your plan, send the desired user a link from the service and convince him of the need to switch.
It's worth noting that you may arouse suspicion. To prevent this from happening, shorten it in Google.
When a person clicks on the link, he will be taken to the page that you specified in the IP Logger service, and his IP will appear in the statistics.
