How to find out if someone lies about the country they are in?

willhub · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:00

Hi.

As above really, I was to find out if this guy who claims he is currently in poland really is in poland, I think he's a compulsive lier but I'd like to reveal it, he's not smart with computer so he wont be masking the IP or anything.

So how could I do it? Based off just some posts on a forum?

Thanks
Will.

Cosimo · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:03

OcUK dicks get them out, OcUK dicks get on the job.

willhub · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:05

Ok maybe OcUK detectives can do it for me?

Oh this forum

http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=40020

The guy called Bhima, can you confirm is he in Poland?

Daegan · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:15

The IP's recorded for his posts won't be displayed to guests or regular forum members, you'd need to find one of their admins/mods for that info.

willhub · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:23

I know that but I'd have thought there maybe ways of finding it out still.

TheDogFather · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:23

I used one of those stats sites once to monitor who was visiting a webpage, you could embed a counter thing in one of your posts then next time he posts match the time to the logs.

Kemik · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:26

TheDogFather said:
I used one of those stats sites once to monitor who was visiting a webpage, you could embed a counter thing in one of your posts then next time he posts match the time to the logs.

There's no way you could do that on vBulletin. It would phase the javascript out. You could use a dynamic image and then log the location of people who download the image when they visit the page but it could be anyones location who visits that page.

V4NT0M · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:26

Can't you get him on msn, initiate a file transfer and do an... *forgot*... oh that was it, netstat -a

Felix Da Housecat · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:29

Ask him to post a picture of him stood next to his bike/car which shows the reg number.

Get him to hold up an A4 page with your name on it, and don't forget the hovis.

willhub · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:29

Cant get him on MSN, dont really want to lol.

It's not Vbulletin, at the bottom it says Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group

TheDogFather · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:36

Kemik said:
There's no way you could do that on vBulletin. It would phase the javascript out. You could use a dynamic image and then log the location of people who download the image when they visit the page but it could be anyones location who visits that page.

Thats what it was a clear 1 pixel image if I remember correctly

I used gostats.com

V4NT0M · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:37

If you had a webhost you could have your signature say "if your name is bhima click here" and monitor the IP addresses that go there. Obviously people other than bhima will click it but what's the chances they are from Poland too?

THMRK · 5 Aug 2009 at 23:20

Extraordinary rendition followed by water boarding should do the trick.

Stolly · 5 Aug 2009 at 23:26

I've got my own webserver where i keep my sigs for other forums. The weblogs make interesting reading. The software i use to analyse the logs try to get the country of origin but its not foolproof.

GeX · 6 Aug 2009 at 07:36

private message him, with some random image on your webserver, then look at the IP that views it.

Janesy B · 6 Aug 2009 at 09:51

GeX said:
private message him, with some random image on your webserver, then look at the IP that views it.

This

MowyTone · 6 Aug 2009 at 10:02

whats to stop him reading this and then not opening the image?

TheDogFather · 6 Aug 2009 at 10:08

I thought i'd try my way out

Heres Janesy B