# How can I find out who is behind these fake accounts?

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**Created:** [March 22, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-can-i-find-out-who-is-behind-these-fake-accounts/319989 "2026-03-22T22:20:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![tali](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/tali/32/166696_2.png) [@tali](https://onehack.st/u/tali)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-can-i-find-out-who-is-behind-these-fake-accounts/319989/1 "2026-03-22T22:20:41Z")

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Someone at my school is creating TikTok accounts, harassing people, and posting terrible things about them, and some of my friends and I are getting blamed! I need to prove it wasn’t us. Is there any way to get the IP address or location where that account was created? I know it’s kind of silly, but please help! (Email or phone number of that TikTok account?)

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**Author:** ![Ze380y](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/ze380y/32/48760_2.png) [@Ze380y](https://onehack.st/u/Ze380y)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 8:27am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-can-i-find-out-who-is-behind-these-fake-accounts/319989/2 "2026-03-23T08:27:51Z")

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You can’t look up the IP or email yourself — only police can force TikTok to hand that over — so have a parent file a police report **today** and tell the officer to send TikTok a preservation request under 18 U.S.C. § 2703(f) (this freezes all account data for 90 days even if they delete it). While you wait, plug the fake username into [**WhatsMyName.app**](https://whatsmyname.app/) — it scans 640+ platforms in seconds, and if they reused that handle anywhere tied to their real name, you just solved it yourself. 🕵

**To clear your name right now:** open Settings → Screen Time (iPhone) or Digital Wellbeing (Android) and screenshot every single day — this data disappears after **7 days** , and if TikTok wasn’t even open on your phone when those posts went up, that’s timestamped alibi proof your school can’t dismiss. 🛡

> 💡 The thing nobody tells you: TikTok stamps every account with a hardware `device_id` that **no VPN can fake** — when police subpoena the records, it proves exactly which physical phone created those accounts. Download your own TikTok data (Settings → Privacy → Download Your Data) to prove your device is a completely different one. That’s your checkmate.