How to find a person on VKontakte by ID: we organize the search competently!

Methods that don't work, deception

Let’s immediately debunk false information, because it confuses and distracts from the main thing.

• There are no hidden buttons inside the VKontakte social network, clicking which will show the person’s IP address.
• Online services that offer to enter a user ID to calculate IP are a scam to collect money and steal accounts.
• The “hacker” who offers to hack for 1000 rubles and find out the ip via VK is a petty scammer.
• Other technical tricks are also not worthy of attention: you cannot find out the ip by the page code, through the command line, mobile phone number, avatar or folk signs.

Why don't these methods work? The social network has never displayed the IP address of users anywhere; such information is available only in the backend - the software and hardware part of the service, where VKontakte employees work.
In other words, this is internal information.

How to identify a person through the VK website

The first thing you can find out from a known ID is who owns the page. replace the asterisks with the ID number in the browser address bar, which looks like https://vk.com/id****

You will receive exactly as much data as the ID owner wishes to show. VKontakte allows you to display different amounts of information to friends, other social network users, and unregistered visitors.

Some people hide their pages completely:

Let's look at an example. The screenshot below No. 1 shows what a person from the account owner’s friends list sees, and No. 2 shows an unregistered user. In the second screenshot, the blocks “Friends”, “Videos”, “Career”, “Education”, “Military Service”, “Worldviews”, “Preferences” and “Hobbies” are missing.

Find out the maximum from the VK user page

Basic data about a person is stored in the most visible place - at the top of his personal profile. If you are not yet familiar with the social network VKontakte, the instructions below will help you figure it out.

1. Register on the social network and log in to your account.

2. Paste the link https://vk.com/id**** into the address bar of your browser, where **** ID number of the user of interest. Here's what the test page looks like:

3. To find out more, click on the "Show details" link.

If you haven't received the information you need:

• Offer the account owner a friendship. This may be enough for the VKontakte service to show you everything that is on its page.
• If the first option does not work, find an excuse and make friends with one of the friends of the person you are interested in. Friends of friends can also see more than everyone else.

Obtaining reliable data about the location of the ID owner

As you already know, VK users can indicate lies in their profiles. But there is information that is quite difficult to fake. For example, geotags - information about the place where photographs were created that the user posted on his page.

Modern smartphones always add geotags, unless the owner has disabled this option in the settings. However, they may not exist if the pictures are processed in photo editors.

To avoid searching for geotagged photos manually, click the “Show on map” button:

A window will open with a map (1) and a general list of photos with geotags (2). The location of the circles on the map indicates the location where the photo was taken. From them you can find out where a person has been, where, for example, he studied and where he lives now. When you click on the circle, a list of images from the selected location will open.

To change the scale of the map, move the cursor over it and rotate the mouse wheel.

For example, let's open any of the found photos. After clicking on it, a window will appear where the shooting location is indicated at the top right. If we click on this address, we will be taken back to the map.

The location can also be determined by indirect signs. For example, find in the list of user groups those that relate to a specific area. You can explore friends' profiles. But, unlike geotagging, these methods are imprecise and require time and lengthy analysis.

And yet, collecting reliable information about VKontakte users is quite difficult. For example, social networks hide data about the IP addresses of their visitors. To get someone's IP , you will have to resort to tricks, for example, motivating the person to send you an email and using special services.
Or lure them to your website, if you have one.

Calculating the IP of a VKontakte user, working methods

Loggers

The only sure way to calculate an IP is to force the user to leave My page and go to the IP address finder. Submit a link to a decoy online service.

Step-by-step algorithm:

1) find the ip trap

2) convert the address into short links using shorteners (optional step)

3) send the link to the contact user via private message.

Protocol determination services 2ip.ru, 2ip.ua, whoer.net, whatleaks.com will show the address only to the visitor, the result is not stored. Use trap loggers:

• iplogger.ru
• ru.itsip.info/spy
• speed-tester.info/check_another_ip.php
• any others or create your own

The IP of the VKontakte site does not match the IP address of the users; they are not the same thing.

Social engineering

Think about it, have the user provide the IP himself. Introduce yourself as technical support, provider, Internet lottery. Complex method.

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How to find out a person's IP address knowing the VK ID?

The first thing you need to understand is that you cannot officially obtain the IP address of a computer. Therefore, you will have to resort to software engineering, that is, “hack” not the network, but the user himself, that is, find out the necessary information from him.

In our case, we will have to lure a person to a special resource, for example, ipLogger, which returns the IP address of the visitor. The difficulty lies in the fact that it is necessary, without arousing suspicion, to persuade the person we need to visit the site using the link we send. In the site visit statistics you can see the computer's IP.

Next, you can determine the location of the victim thanks to the wwhois.ru/ip.php service (for example), which provides information about the user’s country and city of residence. If you need more accurate data, you can find out which provider this IP belongs to and find out the service areas of this particular provider.

If the above plan seemed easy to implement to you, let us pay attention to the difficulties that may arise at each stage of searching for a person’s location using ID Vkontakte:

• there should be no difficulties at the stage of obtaining an ID;
• the second stage, luring the victim to a third-party resource using a suspicious link, is the most difficult. How the operation will be implemented depends on your ingenuity and imagination; for example, special resources can disguise your link as a link to some other, popular and safe site. Don’t forget that the social network checks suspicious links;
• knowing the IP of a VK user’s computer makes it possible to determine his place of residence with a very low degree of probability, especially since the IP is tied to the device, and not to the user. In the best of options, you will find the computer of the person you are looking for, and not the person himself. Today, a large number of users use anonymizers and VPN services - special technologies that allow them to hide their real IP address, replacing it with a new, very distant fictitious IP, which makes our search impossible.

Finding a person’s location using a VK ID is a feasible undertaking, but quite labor-intensive, especially since the data obtained is very, very approximate and inaccurate, and when the person you are looking for uses anonymizers, the information will be completely incorrect.

What does an IP address do?

Nothing useful. The city in which the person is located, country, name of Internet provider, operating system, browser. When using an anonymizer or VPN, the information will be incorrect. Using IP you cannot hack your profile or find out your home address or phone number. But you can scare the offender! Find out the bully's IP and threaten him with problems.

If the situation is worse, there is blackmail, threats, immediately go to the police!

Now many people are imprisoned for liking and reposting, the authorities know every step of VKontakte users and will easily punish the blackmailer.

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Results

Knowing how to calculate IP from VK, you can determine approximate information about a person - his region of location, country and provider. But you shouldn’t trust such information 100%, because using a VPN or an anonymizer often nullifies all your efforts. If we are talking about violation of the law by a VK user, for example, blackmail or threats, it is better to immediately contact the police. Law enforcement officials will quickly identify the offender through the VKontakte administration and will be able to determine the exact location through the provider. But again, if an attacker uses a VPN, it is extremely difficult to find it.

How to find out the guests of my page

To do this, you do not need to know the IP of the visitors. Get over 100 subscribers, and a guest statistics button will appear under your avatar.

Inside your account, upload the data into Excel and guess by city, age, gender which of your friends visited your VKontakte page. The city in the table corresponds to the “city” field on the user page.

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In what cases might this information be needed?

The ipLogger service is designed to maintain attendance statistics. The data will help create an advertising campaign, both geolocation-based and by target audience.

More often, we need to look at what type of IP we used to access VKontakte to check the veracity of our interlocutor, since when we receive offers related to personal or financial relationships, we want to make sure of the honesty of our opponent.

The third reason is fraud, blackmail and threats on VK. There is a completely legal way to punish a person by contacting the police. If they just send you spam or unpleasant messages, use the link. Several complaints and the VKontakte user will be blocked.