When I become Speechless…

I am so felicitous in Cochin, but sometimes I feel bore. All my colleagues enthusiastically wait for weekends, but these are despicable for me. During weekends I usually make phone calls to my friends & my relatives. Most of the time they talk about Cochin & about job, till that I acquaint merrily. But when they ask when you are coming home….. I become speechless.

I don’t have answer for this question. My native is too far from Cochin. If I depart by flight then also it’ll take 10-15 hours, because there is no direct flight service. Sometimes I think why it is like that, why there is no IT company in U.P. whether it’s government inefficiency or due to lack of resources. Working here is like an onsite for me. I always feel difficulties to interact with local people due to language problem, food is totally different, and culture is new for me.

Others colleagues waiting for weekends because they want to enjoy it with their parents, but for me it is very difficult to pass these two days. There are so many holidays but I can’t make use of it to go home and enjoy with my family. Sometimes I think Onsite associates are far better than me, at least they can come India to enjoy there long vacations during Christmas.

From my joining on 29 June ’09 to till now I missed Rakshabandhan, Janamasthmi and surely going to miss Dusshera n Diwali festivals as well. But I think this is the way life is. Things in this life are not so leisurely and difficult to achieve all whatever you want.

I have my first salary in my hand but having no idea how I am going to celebrate it with my parents and other best wishers. It is very well possible that I can purchase something for my parents and courier it to them. But then definitely I’ll miss their expression after getting it, which is a most precious moment for me. I am still waiting when my training will be over, so that I could take 10 days long leave to enjoy my native once again.

But still I am enjoying my life here because I have inner satisfaction with my job. Thanks to Anna University which provide me an opportunity to join Cognizant and thanks to Cognizant which always gives me lots of gratification.

MY INVESTIGATION

It was a Thursday morning (6 Aug 2009), my mobile alarm was started to disturb my sweet sleep at 7 AM sharp. As like my normal routine I just pressed the snooze button, so I can sleep few more minutes. But alarm was so punctual and just started ringing exactly after 5 minutes. This time I gave the full honor to its punctuality and woke up with some laziness. After completing all my morning stuffs I got ready for office till 8.15.

As my normal routine before leaving to office, I just opened the flap of my laptop to check my mails and orkut scraps. Generally I use to check my orkut scraps from home, as this site is blocked in office. When my orkut home page loaded, I got surprised to saw a stranger friend request. Because it was a girl profile so I was excited to know more about her. After scrutinized her profile, I was shocked. My all excitements got converted in hate for an unknown person. At that moment only two friends was there in that profile’s friend list, but by looking the contents, it was cleared that it’s a fake profile of a girl, created by a delinquent person. He was also added nine good homely photos of that girl in the orkut album and described all the personal details of that girl including her contact numbers and full address. This was the only reason I got shocked, how can any girl give her full details in a public place. By observing her profile I got confirmed that she was an only 9th standard girl and by her photos I guess that she belongs to a good family. Usually such type of friend request I declined, but I don’t know why for that profile I neither deleted the friend request nor accepted it. I don’t know what was going on my mind, I just noted down the all three mobile numbers given on that profile. I reached office at 8:45 AM sharp and finished my breakfast. I was still thinking about that profile. I entered into the training room but my mind was thinking whether that’s a fake profile or a real profile.

During my first coffee break at 11 AM, finally I decided to call on those mobile numbers. First I tried to contact on the first number given, but it was switched off. I thought she is just a 9th standard student, so she may be in school, might be this is the reason her number is switched off. Then I tried to contact on second number. My intuition was telling me that this numbers may belong to one of her family members. Bell was ringing other side, but I was oblivious what to talk. After few seconds a lady picked the call. My experiences allowed me to guess, this is her mother. I just asked, are you mother of bla bla… She replied “yes, from where u r calling.” I was not sure about her reaction about that profile. But to make her comfortable first I told her about me. Then I told her about their daughter’s fake profile. She told me that she went to school; whenever she will come she’ll ask her. She also told me that her computer is not working from past 10 days. Then she discussed me about the negative aspects of that profile. I explained her all the hitches which they might face in near future. She thanked me and asked me whether she can call me in future. I told sure, feel free to call me whenever you need any help. After that talk it was clear to me, they belong to a good family. I was also assured, that profile is a fake.

During the lunch break on the same day, my mobile started ringing with an unknown number. I received the call. This was her father; first of all he thanked me a lot to inform them about it at right time and asked me few other details regarding that profile. Till that time a soft corner was created in my heart for that family. I requested her father to not to scold her daughter in this matter. I told him, this profile might be created by one of her close friend. He replied me “Ok, I can understand your feelings”.

In the evening when I returned from office, I finally decided to help that family in this matter. I accessed that profile again. At that time total friend list was increased to twelve. I guessed creator of that profile sent so many friend requests to others as well. I wanted to talk to that crook, so I accepted the friend request and leave him a scrap on that fake profile. I asked that person to delete that profile immediately and informed him about the legal actions which can be taken against him for this activity. He replied me back so rudely during night and as usual I checked my scrap on next morning (7 AUG 2009). That anonymous person challenged me by saying that he’ll never stop and I can do whatever I want. I was so upset after seeing his reply. Suddenly I got a call from her father again. I explained him about that scrap, which make him upset as well.

Then I decided to accept his challenge. On the same day, I spent around 1 hour on Google to learn about IP tracing technologies. I read few case studies related with same matter. Through those case studies, I got to know that, the only way to caught that guy was legal police complain i.e. FIR. But because this case was related with an innocent 9th standard girl and police may investigate her about it. So I thought it will not be a good idea to register a complaint. I suggested the same to her parents.

That day I read so many articles to track an IP address. I found it as a little bit tricky task. Even for mails in inbox, sometimes you can’t get details about sender’s IP. I also learnt that mail sent from an office domain generally contains the IP details, but mail sent through a personal mail IDs like Gmail, Yahoo etc missing the sender’s IP details in the header. Finally I got a conclusion that the only way to track his IP is to make him a login in any Gmail account for which I already knowing the login ID and password. Once he’ll login, I can easily get the time of login and IP address detail of that system from where he’ll be login there. Actually Gmail can tell you about the last 5 login details.

So now it was my turn to think something different. I created a new Gmail account and sent the login ID and password details on the mail ID of that fake profile. In this mail, I also wrote that, in this particular Gmail id there are few interesting past incidents about that bla bla girl and if he wants to know those just login there to check the mails. I left him a simple scrap on that fake orkut scrapbook to check his mailbox. Purposefully I didn’t left login ID and password details on the scrapbook, because it was a public place and after seeing that scrap anyone can login in my new Gmail account. My motive was only to make him login into my new Gmail account. I finished all these stuffs at night after 10 PM. I already observed that most of his activities he was doing during night time, so definitely he must be using net from home and not from any internet café.

I kept my finger crossed and was eagerly waiting for the moment, when he’ll come online. My weekend got started and it was the first night of my weekend. I was up little late that night, but he didn’t appeared online. With lots of hope and confidence I went to bed. Next morning was my result day. I woke up before my alarm at 6 AM and switched on my laptop. Within few seconds net got connected and I logged in to my orkut account. I saw that fake profile displayed at 2nd position in my friends list, so I was confirmed that he came online during last night some time. Immediately I login to that new Gmail account created by me. With a full confidence I just clicked on details of login history and can’t describe my happiness in words. I trapped him successfully and got his IP details. I found that he accessed that Gmail account at 4.08 AM in the morning. Using his IP address, I tracked-down that exact IP location and other details like service provider, type of connection. Luckily one of my friends was working with that internet service provider organization, so I got the full detail about him without difficulty.

At last I conveyed all the details to her parents and suggested them to take appropriate action based upon those details. My mission was completed; I chased that guy well and defeated him.