Surely you remember the boom around sites with anonymous questions, which was so relevant 3-5 years ago. Many Internet users shared links to such resources and encouraged friends and strangers to ask them about various things. “Ask.fm” and “Sprashivay.ru” were very popular among Russian users. Serious verbal battles, showdowns, revelations, and confessions flared up on these sites. And the question “How can I find out who writes anonymously to Ask?” was probably asked by everyone who registered there. Even if passions have subsided a little today, and only their devoted fans remain on these networks, there are still questions that are still relevant. We will sort them out.
If you were on the sidelines of that trend, then first of all we will briefly tell you about this resource. Ask.fm (today it is ASKfm) is a social network where a user can both send completely anonymous questions to others (you can remove incognito if desired) and answer such messages yourself. The resource was created in Latvia in 2010. It acted as a competitor and in some ways a successor to the once popular Formspring.
Unlike the same “Facebook”, “VKontakte”, the functionality of “Ask” is somewhat limited: setting an avatar, a short questionnaire, a wall with friends’ answers, your own profile with all the questions you were once asked in chronological order. By replying to a message, you automatically make the question and your message visible to everyone who visits your page. You can publish anonymous questions in Ask.fm and publish your answers on Tumblr, VKontakte, Twitter, having previously integrated with these services. By the way, it was precisely such reposts that once widely advertised this site.
Who writes to Ask? According to statistics, in February 2015 the popularity of the network reached its peak with 80 million registered users worldwide. Not everyone has the same attitude towards her. Many were shocked by the news in 2012: Irish schoolchildren committed suicide due to bullying by their classmates at Ask.fm.
First of all, I’m wondering how to write anonymously to Ask. This can be done in two ways.
In Russia (not all countries have this option), it is possible to ask a question to the Aska user without having an account on this network. Of course, if the user allows the possibility of sending him such messages. This is done like this:
If you want to find out who is writing to your friends in Ask and ask and answer questions yourself, then it’s easier to register online. It's easy - enter your email, name, password, date of birth, gender. It’s faster to log in via VK, Twitter, Facebook. The question is simple:
If we turn to information from official representatives of this resource, we will see that they assure everyone that the site is absolutely anonymous. That is, if, when sending a message, you marked “Anonymous question,” then you can be 100% sure that this is really true: no one will ever know that it was you who sent the message.
In principle, this is the feature of the resource that attracted you to it - the ability to ask questions incognito and receive them from people who want to hide their identity.
If you are wondering how to find out who writes anonymously in Ask, then you are probably looking for additional software that can provide this opportunity. If we turn again to official representatives, they will assure us here that there is not a single program in the world that would allow revealing all the cards of their users.
But we know that there are craftsmen who can hack even the most secure system, let alone data from a site with anonymous questions. If we look at the advertising of these programs, their developers describe the secrets of their creations approximately this way: “Asku” knows the IP address of any user, by which the system identifies him, which is why each user has his own unique ID. Based on this data, the program tracks and identifies the anonymous person. And if he has a page from another social network linked to his profile, then you can instantly recognize by sight the person who left you such an exciting message.
However, there is one “but” here - under the guise of whistleblower applications, a lot of malicious programs are distributed that are configured to steal your personal data. Therefore, we advise you to refrain from such investigations.
If you are really worried about annoying anonymous people, we advise you to do the following:
That's all, now you will only receive questions from those who are not shy about showing their faces.
So, how do you find out who is writing anonymously to Ask? As the site developers assure, it is impossible to obtain such information. Theoretically, however, one can argue with them. But it makes no sense to recommend a specific whistleblower program - there is no proven reliable software of this kind. In the vast majority of cases, by downloading such software, you will introduce a dangerous virus to your gadget.
There is a problem: someone wrote a post on your blog, how do you find out who this person is? Very simple - using its IP.
IP address (IP address, short for Internet Protocol Address) is a unique identifier (address) of a device (usually a computer) connected to a local network or the Internet.
Traveling across the network, we leave our unique trace in the logs of the servers we visit. All we have to do is determine the well-wisher’s IP and use it to calculate the places he visits. Using these clues (login, nickname, email, mobile, address), you can create an approximate composite photo. Most often it is possible to access your personal page “In Contacts”. Email, the “Contacts” page can be broken, but we will limit ourselves to legal methods - namely, a targeted search for information on the Internet.
So let's start with IP. If you have a blog like I do, you probably have a free counter on it. In addition to the useful property of counting the number of visits, the counter, as a rule, collects other information about visitors - their IP, time of visit, basic information about their computer (OS, browser version, and so on).
How does this happen? When visiting your page, the user's browser downloads its skeleton from the server on which it is located. After that, the browser loads all the pictures and additions from the main site, as well as other sites on which they are posted. There is a trick here - in order to display the counter image in itself, the client’s browser must send a request to the server that provides the counting service - and it does this. At this time, the server easily determines and records who asked for the drawing (IP), the time it was and other information that the client provides.
Here's what the counter field looks like on my blog:
Seemingly simple drawings, but everything is not so simple:
If you look inside the page, this block contains the following code.
There is no need to be afraid - almost all sites contain counters and there is no escape from this. Moreover, some sites regularly post (consciously or not) statistics on visits to their site, which means search spiders (google, yandex) have a copy of these pages. It turns out that everyone knows everything about everyone - all you have to do is use your brain a little.
A site that organizes visit counting provides the blogger with interesting statistical information about his blog, but in addition to beautiful graphs and numbers, the site contains a banal log
I changed all the IPs for the secrecy of my readers, but, as you can see, I see them in their pure form.
It is worth starting an investigation from the time when the comment was left. Next, we should look in the counter log for the entry made +/- at this time. Using the counter, calculate the IP address. Using the IP address (if you're lucky, of course) you can find other traces left from the author's computer. There is a non-zero probability that in those traces there will be other clues (email, mobile phone, asya, nickname on the forum) - then we can say success.
I did this twice. The work is not easy and it is not certain that it will lead to a result (or the right result). In any case, be prepared that this will take several hours of your time. In addition, the IP address can change (be dynamic). But even here there are opportunities to get out, and since they are unique for each unique case, I did not describe them here. In the future, if the opportunity arises to find someone again, I will definitely describe the process...
Not everyone knows that now anonymous questions on Ask can be easily resolved, and some additional services help with this.
For those who have not yet figured out how to write anonymously in Ask, we will help you quickly and easily understand this procedure. There are several ways to ask an anonymous question. After a short registration has been completed in the service and a new user’s own page has been created, Ask.fm offers an anonymous service when writing a question. This means that the user to whom the question is addressed will not see the original data of the person who asked the question. If you don’t need to write anonymous questions to Ask, just don’t select this function when sending your message. Read more about anonymous questions in the ask on the next page page.
Additional resources help determine who wrote a message in an anonymous ask or left a question. Some services make available the IP addresses of those who write anonymous questions, and subsequently such information can be useful in identifying the anonymous person.
Another type of site that helps identify the authors of anonymous questions offers users a quick and easy registration (usually such a site offers a transition through the main page to Ask.fm). As a result, just one login to a unique resource is enough, and all questions asked on the page are no longer anonymous, but contain complete information about the user who is their author. What questions you can ask in the ask, read the next one
29.03.2017
Ask.fm— a social network for communication using questions and answers. Created in Latvia and is a competitor Spring.me(early Formspring). Using this site, users can answer questions and also ask other users. The main function of such a service is the ability to ask an anonymous question. Actually, this is the reason for this question.
Probably, many site users have received the same question, after which you want to find the person who wrote it. Often these are questions of an offensive or piquant nature. Let's try to resolve this issue.
Of course, there are ways to expose an anonymous person. But you shouldn’t trust such “magic” sites that can find an anonymous person just by the page number. The scammers write so believably that even the most advanced user can believe that this service works. There are a large number of such sites on the Internet. Their task is to defraud you of money or infect your computer with malware that can steal your personal data (for example, data from an electronic wallet). An example of such a site:
Attention! Don't trust sites that ask you to send a message from your phone. Sites that require phone verification automatically send you a message with a code that you need to enter.
Now let’s look at some really working methods that won’t steal your money or harm your computer.
Every person can be brought to clean water. But for this you need to find the right approach. This can be done in several ways:
To calculate an anonymous user Ask.fm, you can use the link to catch guests. To apply this method, you need to place in the column "Web site", link to profile in "In contact with" or "Classmates". To catch an anonymous person, we will use the application "My guests". To do this, you need to do the following:
After this, the construction of the trap will be completed. All users who follow the link will be displayed in the section "Guests". All you have to do is wait and periodically log into the application. This is where the methods of exposing an anonymous person end.
Greetings!
Services where you can ask an anonymous question to the page owner are gaining more and more popularity. However, human curiosity has no limits and sometimes you want to find out who asked a particular question.
Let's see if it is possible to find out this information.
A rather pressing question for many users of the above services is how to find out the sender of a question, what is hidden behind the anonymous name.
Perhaps there are some ways to find out this information of interest. However, there are no official methods - the service administration does not disclose this information, even on a paid basis. Undoubtedly, within the depths of the service this information is monitored and recorded, but only for technical needs, as well as for government services, for example, law enforcement. In the event of illegal acts using this service, the administration is required by law to provide all available information to the competent authorities that would help solve the crime.
But if the data is collected, then it may be accessible from the outside; fortunately, on the Internet you can find offers that indicate that you can easily identify an anonymous sender, you just need to pay a certain amount of money.
It is worth especially noting and emphasizing that there are no third-party services that would show you, even for a fee, the anonymous sender of a particular question asked of you. All of this is pure fraud. In the best case, you will lose money, and you will be shown a random person who supposedly asked the question, and in the worst case, you will compromise your account (provided, of course, that in order to “identify” the author of an anonymous question you will need to enter the username and password for your pages on the anonymous question service).
Exactly the same applies to programs for computers, as well as applications for smartphones, the functionality of which promises to identify the user who asked you an anonymous question. Do not even think about installing them; these utilities are almost guaranteed to be viruses and other malicious elements.
It is necessary to understand that if you make it possible to disclose this data, then the very essence of the service, which asks questions on an anonymous basis, is lost. If a person asking an anonymous question knows that he may be recognized, then he will most likely simply refuse to submit the question. Traffic to the service and activity on it will suffer, so it’s unlikely that anything will ever change and the ability to find out who asked you an anonymous question will be introduced.
