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Hi guys, so recently a guy has been attempting to scam me out of a few thousand dollars. Before I report the guy to the district attorney I was hoping you guys could help me get his ip address through a little social engineering. My idea is to setup a webserver which I can hopefully use to capture his real ip address since gmail addresses do not show sender ip addresses. I've got a linux server setup with a lampp installation setup and was hoping somebody with web experience could help me out. I have never used lampp (xampp) before and was hoping somebody could help me setup a simple image that captures his ip upon loading. Here is the code I was hoping to use I just need some help setting it up on the server side and implementation.
Code:
<?php

header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
readfile('image.jpg');
$filename = "logged.txt";
   $somecontent = "Connection from:".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']." at ".date("r",time())."\n";
   if ($handle = fopen($filename, 'a')) {
           fwrite($handle, $somecontent)
           fclose($handle);
   }



?>

It would be GREATLY appreciated if someone could help me get this scumbag.
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Try asking on Reddit, in a proper sub reddit.
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Try asking on Reddit, in a proper sub reddit.
I'll try posting there if necessary but would like to see if anyone here can help me first. It should be pretty simple, I'm just trying to figure out how to get the image hosted with the php code to log his ip.
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I managed to get it all setup, hopefully I can get this guy to click the link.
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