Extracting an IP address from an online Image?

Calahonda52

'How I caught my online scammer
is from the BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37348014
with this blog about the event
https://blog.haschek.at/post/f3281
where it says
His IP address from opening the image I sent him (also confirmed his location)
which was posted
here
https://www.pictshare.net
which seems to be the scammed guys own site so I wonder is that why he was able to link the image and IP address.

Thanks as always

Fysh

It's not the image that provides the IP address - it's the logs on the webserver hosting the image. The same general technique is used by companies running mailing lists to try and generate profiles of their subscribers and when/how they check their email (which is why turning off embedded images is a good idea).

Calahonda52

English is not my first language but I thought that
which seems to be the scammed guys own site so I wonder is that why he was able to link the image and IP address.
Has the same meaning as
The opposite, pictshare is the site owned by the person who got scammed. He uploaded a picture of the gift cards as proof to the scammer that they were real. The scammer looked at the picture and as a result his IP address at the time was recorded.

So back to the TEFL class notes

Anyway thanks for the answers, as always.