Would it be easy for someone pretend to be in a different country?
Someone has been writing to me saying they are from a specific country (Germany) The ip address check out as being German -- BUT they use a German email company and a laptop. Could they be in the UK pretending to be in Germany? And how easy would it be for them to do that???
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Anyone with moderate to advanced computer skills could likely bounce an email enough so it would appear from somewhere else. It's possible that by viewing the complete email headers you could better know the origin, but even then it could be masked.
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Actually, it would be very difficult because of the way IP addresses are assigned. They would have to have a permanent IP address, and that's hard to do when you connect in different places (or even to different networks). However, if they use broadband it is possible to get a GPS location on them.
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For the email, this is no problem... You can signup for a Yahoo Mail and say you are in UK and will get your mail as whatever@yahoo.co.uk As for the IP, there are some applications that hide your real IP and provide you with another virtual one They are known as IP Hiders and they work in a Proxy Technique... About whether its possible to choose an IP of a specific country, don't know of any application that does it, but if there is applications that change your physical IP to a Virtual IP, then probably there is an application that would provide you with the feature of choosing the country you want...
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yup its actually pretty simple I live in The Netherlands but EVERYbody thinks I live in USA
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