Do lots of people use proxy servers?

[win4fun]

Hey, so I recently found out how to find a person's IP address by any email they send me.

I've been telling people i'm selling to to email me to prove they own their paypal account. What they don't know is that I check their IP and ask them where they live, most of the time they say a country different then their IP.

So obviously these people are using a proxy server, whether or not this is suspicious and makes the person dangerous to trade with (because of chargebacks) I don't know. So basically, do a lot of legitimate people use proxy servers or are the majority of them scammers trying to chargeback?

Thanks in advanced .

 

[GodGenesis]

Most of the big gold sellers uses proxy to avoid RWT suspicion from Jagex. If that person is a new comer etc and they uses proxy, do be careful as they may have stolen, hacked the paypal account.

 

[Davidp123]

I read somewhere on here that most email providers process the emails through their servers, so the IP that you're getting would not be always theirs, I can be wrong though, cant remember exactly what thread I read it on.

 

[win4fun]

So it seems like checking peoples' IP is a bit of a waste of time?

 

[Try and run]

How do you know your method actually results in their IP address?

 

[FloydZeppelin]

In all seriousness, Proxy servers have gotten big recently so I think you should use a different method to verify information like that.

At the moment, I don't use one but if I start dealing with virtual items again I probably will have one. People don't always use them maliciously ya'know.

 

[win4fun]

How do you know your method actually results in their IP address?

http://aruljohn.com/info/howtofindipaddress/