Ip Address and legal issues

[nihil]

How did you actually find out about this account in the first instance?

I think that two of the major problems you are going to hit with an ISP over this are:

1. There is no money in it for them so they couldn't care unless there is something blatantly illegal or against their policies going on. It is not as if this is a pay for service?

2. It is going to be very difficult for you to prove to them that you are who you say you are, unless you approach them through a law enforcement agency.............none of whom are likely to be that interested, given that no real "crime" seems to have been comitted at this stage, and there is no money involved. Your other recourse would be through a solicitor, but that will be expensive?

As liquid62 puts it so aptly, this could be a case of identity theft, it could be a case of your daughter sneaking around on the web.

Or it could be some sort of prank by one of her fellow schoolkids?

[foxyloxley]

Originally posted here by Negative
Your best best is filing a police report, and or contacting your local FBI office.

how do you know she's American
OH I know

you checked her IP

whois this man

[back on topic]
you might have to accept the fact that there is NOTHING you can do
and it COULD be your daughter's own zone

report it to MySpace
ignore it for a while
monitor the situation
if it holds
let it go

if it escalates
THEN think about the police / lawyer route

[nihil]

As I mentioned before, how did you find out about it?

If your daughter is under 14 years of age then there is an obvious solution:

Eligibility. Use of and Membership in the MySpace Services is void where prohibited. By using the MySpace Services, you represent and warrant that (a) all registration information you submit is truthful and accurate; (b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information; (c) you are 14 years of age or older; and (d) your use of the MySpace Services does not violate any applicable law or regulation. Your profile may be deleted and your Membership may be terminated without warning, if we believe that you are under 14 years of age.

The addition of the name of a friend indicates that this is someone who knows both of them.

If you examine the MySpace site you will see that there are league tables for schools and the number of members they have signed up.

That makes me think that it is even more likely that it was someone at her school that did it. If that is the case then you are certainly looking at "mission impossible" as they would doubtless have used a school or Library computer.

It would be interesting to know if her friend has a MySpace account, and if they do, are they aware of it, and did they set it up themselves?

It would not be surprising to me to find that fellow students had done this to boost the school's "league rating"

Just a few thoughts