Unusual question

[martinlw]

Hi We have been recieving abusive messages from somebody on Facebook Messenger,the police are now aware of this,this person is claiming they are using my daughters ip address is this possible as the person lives 30 miles away.regards Martin

 

[Cycloid Torus]

Sorry to hear of your trouble. IPs can be spoofed.

After following up on the police report and advising them of your plan for next steps, you might wish to:
- contact your Internet Service provider for their help
- contact Facebook for their help ( https://www.facebook.com/help/1417189725200547/ )
- changing passwords
- scheduling your daughter's use of Messenger, so you can be available if any further abuse.

 

[DelJo63]

No two devices can have the same IP address--World Wide, so that claim is false.
To clarify, our public IP addresses are assigned by the ISP connection and is always related to the addresses it owns. These addresses get re-established periodically, unless you BUY a domain name for yourself.

The public address is connected to the front-end of our routers. The router then assigns a LAN address to all of our devices, and this is where we see our device addresses like 192.168.1.x and there are millions of these, but they can not be reached from the Internet - - they're call non-routable.

 

[martinlw]

No two devices can have the same IP address--World Wide, so that claim is false.
To clarify, our public IP addresses are assigned by the ISP connection and is always related to the addresses it owns. These addresses get re-established periodically, unless you BUY a domain name for yourself.

The public address is connected to the front-end of our routers. The router then assigns a LAN address to all of our devices, and this is were we see our device addresses like 192.168.1.x and there are millions of these, but they can not be reached from the Internet - - they're call non-routable.

 

[martinlw]

HI Thankyou for the info that has put our minds at rest.regards Martin.