Home › Forums › Archives › Instant Messaging › Yahoo! Messenger Support › Find someone’s real name from their Yahoo ID
- This topic has 8 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated 15 years, 10 months ago by skinman.
-
AuthorPosts
-
June 11, 2008 at 11:33 am #28920thetoon1892Member
Hi all,
i’ve been having a bit of a problem lately, someone contacted me on yahoo messenger under a certain i.d. & fake name. They then told me some things about my GF,some of which turned out to be true, she said she was a friend of my GF thats how she knew all this information, but she wouldnt tell me her real name.
i want to know her real name so i can find out if she has another motive for telling me all this information & trying to cause trouble between me & my GF. i.e. her & my GF not being in good terms
is there anyway of finding out this persons real name or even location from their yahoo i.d. i fear there’s not but i just thought i’d ask
Cheers all
June 11, 2008 at 12:11 pm #170044DermotParticipantNo there is no way to find it directly or indirectly.
If you have GF problems i suggest you talk to her about it.
June 11, 2008 at 12:35 pm #170048thetoon1892Memberi asked for I.T. advice dermot, not relationship advice
June 11, 2008 at 1:39 pm #170046mfenechMemberAnd you got both. 🙂
June 11, 2008 at 10:09 pm #170047Doris KenneyParticipantBout the only thing I can suggest is a google on the Yahoo screen name. That may or may not yield anything at all.
June 11, 2008 at 10:54 pm #170043DavidParticipant@thetoon1892 230611 wrote:
i asked for I.T. advice …
The internet doesn’t work like that, you asked for a solution, and he gave you the only option that makes sense.
June 12, 2008 at 12:32 am #170045imported_Ven0mMemberNot possible. If it were, it’d be a major breach of privacy.
June 12, 2008 at 8:37 am #170049thetoon1892Memberok thought not,
thanks to all who gave purely technical responses
June 26, 2008 at 1:48 pm #170050skinmanMemberDuring an add-friend request, the name on the account is sent to the person you’re adding, to ask their permission. This name isn’t shared in the public profile, so many people put their real name in there without realizing it’ll ever be made available.
If she created this profile for the express purpose of messing with you, then she probably put bogus info in there. Or if she’s smart, and like Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie said in the privacy song, “whatever you do when they talkin’ to you, for god’s sakes, lie”, then you won’t get anything useful this way. But, if she wasn’t thinking about privacy when she created the account, there’s a good chance she just threw her real name in there without thinking.
And all you have to do to see it is get her to add you…
-
AuthorPosts
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.