I just found out a friend of mine has been using my computer to send messages to people from fake accounts to get back at her boyfriend. Apparently she threatened no one but her boyfriend's friend is a police officer and he says he has a cyber detective looking into this and that if the messages are traced back to my computer I will be arrested. Is this true?
Don't the police need a search warrant before they can trace messages? The fake account was deleted but I know the info is still saved on FaceBook servers. I am just worried.
So here is my question: arrested for WHAT? usually, to be arrested you have to have broken the law or at least be accused (with SOME evidence) of breaking the law.. No one was threatened... sooo.. what's the threatened charge?
Anyway, to answer your question:
Facebook can/will give IP information if ordered by a judge or if the information is requested by law enforcement (as per Facebook's public policy) - so, sure, it is possible that the "friend" could get your IP address ..
But.. your IP address is pretty much useless unless he can show that your IP matches the IP at the time those (law breaking??) messages were sent. and, to do that, he will have to go to your ISP, who will be much more tight with your information - almost guaranteeing the need for a judge's court-order. and i can imagine no judge willing to hand over your Constitutionally protected private information over "messages to get back at someone's boyfriend" ..
So, however technically possible, I would highly, HIGHLY doubt you have anything to worry about. Seems to me, that if you got arrested over a personal vendetta, the officer and the department that he works for would be open to MUCH more trouble when you sue the sh**t out of them for false arrest, harassment, etc.
Oh - if the part about not making threats isnt true, all bets are off.. you're going down..
If there is a court order or criminal/police investigation, it will be a pretty easy task to trace it to the mobile phone or device of the cowardly jerk that sent the message.
I recently found out my ex was married. to get back at him i created a fake FaceBook page of me with name all wrong making it seem that someone created a page of me. i contact his wife thru the fake FaceBook page and told her about me and her now husband relationship. i am done with it and honestly a waste of my time, very stupid to have done that i know. my question is, can i get in some kind of trouble with the law for doing such? also, i deleted the account and the fake email as soon as i sent that msg to her. can it still be traced??
Thank you
No, you cannot get 10 years in jail for saying someone is a whore. That is not a threat. You may get misdemeanor harrassment. All you did...if that is all you did was share your opinion.
If I put a post on a company website from something I heard from a friend about one of their workers stating he sent porn to teenagers, would the police really track down my IP address?
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