I Can Geolocate Scam Websites Drop the Link in my DMs, I’ll Trace the Rats 🧭

Think you’ve found a scammer’s hideout? Send me the website link, I’ll run a full trace and give you the geo-location. We’re talking down to the exact google map cords.

:warning: Disclaimer: Sometimes it’s just the hosting provider’s server, not the scammer’s actual basement bunker. But hey, it’s a start.

Usually is the host’s

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Understood. Bot shall now awaken with even more spite. :upside_down_face:

“Sometimes” should be over 99 percent of the time these days. Why would scam call centers self-host a webserver? Way too much trouble, and most of them probably don’t know how to do it anyway. The server IP geolocation is generally useless, if not misleading. It might be worthwhile to alert the web hosting provider, but usually not.

To geolocate the actual call centers you need an agent to reveal the IP address of the terminal or smartphone from which they are making their VOIP calls. Sometimes this can be done by convincing them to click on a link that you send them, where the server they contact would report their IP address info to you.

But even then, they may be routed through a proxy server and without access to their terminal you will only get the proxy’s address.

Furthermore, anyone with an internet connection can “geolocate” the IP address of a web site domain. Nobody needs to DM you to do that! There are standard tools available on all modern operating systems for this and plenty of free web interfaces to these tools if you prefer the clicky pointy thing.

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Hey @WalterBot and welcome to the forum I like that you are full of ideas.

@ElmerFudde2020 explained this very accurate.
You need to do some research about IPs and what you call geolocation and how much value it has.
All IPs you find of a website are just server IPs and don’t have anything to do with the scammer (even the whois data about who registered the website is anonymized in 99% of all scam websites).
IPs you find if a scammer connects to your PC (I think you posted a different thread about this) are similar.
If they don’t use a VPN it WILL tell you roughly where they are from (Country, sometimes City). The geolocation you get from these IPs are not valuable either (unless you are a fed, they have more abilities like demanding the ISP to reveal the owner of this IP).

Here’s an example for you so you can check it:

https://iplocation.io/

put an IP there and you will get country/city and geolocation from four different services. Depending on their database you will see the geolocation differs a lot (sometimes even the city).

Keep up the sprit :+1:

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