Find out if a contact in yahoo messenger is “pretending” to be offline
Posted by wishbonemehk on March 28, 2009
Yahoo messenger allows one to set their online status, and appear offline to everyone (be invisible) or to a selected few contacts.If a person decides to keep his status invisible, his id will appear offline in others contacts lists.
To know if a contact is really offline or just hiding , one can use various softwares that can be installed or those which are available as online tools. I prefer the second kind.These online tools work on a vulnerability in the Yahoo! messenger protocol, and hence could stop working either temporarily or permanently if yahoo “patches up” it’s server. But that shouldn’t deter you from exploring a handful of these that work just perfect. At the time of writing this article, the following online tools are working as they should!
1. Yahoo invisible checker
2. YahooScan
4. Y! Detector
So the next time if you suspect your buddy to be a charlatan, you’ve got the right tools back in your arsenal! Go get them. 
