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How did a stranger find out my real name with my yahoo/flickr account?

• through specifically yahoo/flickr I am a yahoo answers/flickr user. this happened to be even though i do not use my real name or give out any private information. my real name ...show more

• Answer:

  You would be surprised at how easy it is to track people and find out their real name, where they live, what they do for a living if you know how to research online. Example: On a particular site that I volunteer as an online tech, a gentleman asked for help to remove viruses from a Windows 8 computer that he said was installed by his son. After a few indepth scans cracked software was found. I pointed this out to him and he said his son installed the cracks to access free software from the App store. He asked me to please help him remove the cracks. I did, though in the mean tiime I googled his username, found his FaceBook profile, his MySpace profile which had a picture and also found that he was a member to many hack forums. The guy was lying to me. He was not the father, he was the son himself. It took me 15 minutes to find out who he was, (real name) and in what area of the USA he was located. Trust me, even the slightest bit of information may seem nothing to you, though to a complete stranger that is determined, that tiny bit of info is all they need. On another occasion, a fellow here on Yahoo Answers asked if anyone knew how to find people. He was looking for a specific patent lawyer. All he had was a last name and a brief description of a street and that the lawyer worked for a large company. I found him on LinkedIn, though refused to provide the mans location and who he worked for since I had no idea if the guys intent was as he said it was. He could have been a bad guy for all I know.