Screening 101

[urhuckleberry]

Interesting reading:

http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?t=228156


Huck

[TechOne]

Email is not totally safe, either. The headers contain IP addresses, and if the cops have 3 or 4 emails from the same iP address and you ever admit to the email address being yours, you can still be busted for discussing sex and money together.

I pissed off the cops that busted me a couple years ago by sending warnings to all of my past girls and one of them was the "sting". They had the email printed out to show me, so I knew then that girl was the fake profile!

MMS and email on a cell phone is less likely to be traceable except under federal warrant through Homeland Security.

[urhuckleberry]

Good points, though I learned in a recent iincident there are ways to hide originating IP addresses in e-mails, especilally in yahoo, google and hotmail.

The key to remember is no one ever pays for sex. That is not legal.

Huck

[TechOne]

Originally Posted by urhuckleberry

Good points, though I learned in a recent iincident there are ways to hide originating IP addresses in e-mails, especilally in yahoo, google and hotmail.
Huck

Yep, that's IMAP webmail, not POP mail. Those services use consolidator routers and do not normally log IP addresses of the sender, as long as you can authenticate into the server, you are then authorized to send mail through your account. Webmail uses different ports through a router, much like viewing a website. Now, the rub is that the account must be verified, so using a client app to receive the POP mail as verification can be logged and traced if LEO so wishes, but there must be felonious evidence to get that warrant; not likely.

I wish I had all the answers and workarounds, but I don't, nor does anyone else. LE does not have the resources to trace and track like the crime show on TV. So as long as the hobby continues to grow and expand, we are all doing our job to make LE feel helpless to stem the tide! lol