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Cause Maybe 90% of Dani Web comminity probably hates those annoying bots that lead to you sites to get your credit card info, says add me on this social networking website, add me on Facebook, saying text me so I can send you photos.

I was thinking if it was possible for a advanced skilled user out there to know if it's possible to find out who created the bot then report the crime to the feds, bots are annoying and imposeronate inoccent women also guys to.

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Short answer: it can be possible, but only rarely by an ordinary user. Reliable attribution of a bot or botnet to a specific person normally requires forensic logs and records that only platforms, registrars or ISPs hold. As notes, that level of work needs experienced analysts and access to infrastructure — local clues help start an investigation but rarely prove authorship on their own.

Practical steps a non-expert can take immediately to preserve evidence and make any later investigation useful:

  • Capture full-page screenshots showing the account/URL, timestamps and the browser address bar. Save message IDs or profile URLs where available.
  • Save any suspicious files without opening them; isolate the copy offline.
  • Record every suspicious URL (including shortened links) and the exact text the bot posted.
  • Compute file hashes and collect simple network traces so analysts can correlate indicators.

Example commands (run on a safe, isolated machine or a copy of the file):

# Linux/macOS: SHA256 of the file
sha256sum suspect.bin

# Follow redirects to see final landing URL
curl -Ls -o /dev/null -w "%{url_effective}\n" "http://short.url/..."

For deeper attribution: trained analysts will use static/dynamic malware analysis, extract C2 domains, check hosting ASNs, WHOIS/passive-DNS data, TLS certs and platform logs. Avatar images can be checked with reverse-image searches to spot impersonation. Be aware that timestamps, compile times and registrations can be falsified; only platform/ISP logs (IP/session records) tend to tie activity to a real person.

If fraud or identity theft occurred, report to the platform’s trust & safety team and to law enforcement (preserve a copy of everything you hand over). Do not attempt “hacking back” or invasive tracing yourself — that can be illegal. As and implied, backtracking and file artifacts are useful starting points, but definitive attribution usually requires professional incident response and cooperation from the service providers.

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That is usually a subject for experts in computer network security. I am a senior engineer with a major internet company, and I would need a year or two at least to get even a bit competent in determining who was behind some bot/botnet.

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one needs some knowledge of back tracking maybe !!!!

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If the virus/malware executable is saved onto your Hard Drive, and you have access to it then there may be a way of checking how and where you received it from.

Check the file name of the file. Go into your webbrowser the one used when you received the file from a download and go into your history and search the filename. If you hadn't changed the filename on the download "save dialog" then it should display the URL to where you received it from.

If however, your talking about online websites with bots and advertisements, there isn't much you can do about it. Considering, the website owner chooses what advertisements go onto his website. Unless what is on there is actually against the law, there's not much to what you can do. If you've been scammed, had your credit card stolen from entering a form and so on, there commiting fraud and you can definetely do something about that.

If this is Software infection/virus, I highly suggest you get sorted with a good Anti-Virus/malware software.

If the above information I have created for you isn't what you were looking for, my apologies.

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