How Accurate Is Tracing an IP Address? Can You Really Find Someone's Location? or What's the Best Met

Tracing an ip is useful for broad stuff—like figuring out if a scammer’s in Nigeria or something. But exact location? Nope.

I’ve used ARIN’s WHOIS lookup before, and it’ll tell you who owns the IP (usually the ISP), but that’s about it.

Unless you’ve got access to ISP logs (which you don’t), you’re not finding anyone’s doorstep.