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| Sun 18 Jan 09, 3:15 PM thongadongalong 5 yrs |
Whilst making usual typing/operating clangers have unearthed a method of identifying some scammers. When pressing "send" on gumtree accidental fingeritis caused two presses a minute apart so sent two memmos. Evil bitch was a commission agent for pay date site and had set her machine to auto reply hence received two replies in return. A real person would have sent one or no reply.
CB236 Stainless steel posts,guidepins,spacers,security etc to raise funds for wildlife group woodland project | |
| 18 Jan 09, 3:18 PM mini_velvet UK(EH), 6 yrs  |
This is IC not Gumtree. No colours or shapes | |
| 18 Jan 09, 3:49 PM bohnanza UK(FK), 12 yrs  |
No you haven't. You have only identified another method of detecting automated replies. The response arriving pretty quickly is usually a pretty good method of detecting an automated response. Humans generally aren't very good at seeing and e-mail, reading it, writing a reply and sending it within 20 seconds. Science, the only religion that works even if you don't believe in it. | |
| 18 Jan 09, 9:50 PM footstool83 UK(CB), 6 yrs |
You can find some great scammers on gumtree, the best are ones who are "moving to west Africa and no longer need" a certain property or item and so are trying to sell it. One of my favourite slow-work-day activities at the moment is using fake gmail addresses to wind the scammers up. Try it for yourselves. I recently had a guy claim that the house he was selling had a spunktrench and rhubarb cable piping (after I specified this was what I was looking for). | |
| 27 May 09, 10:42 AM Canedman UK(TR), 4 yrs |
I had a reply from a "girl" on Gumtree.She didn't seem to be aware I was seeking a dominatrix. Then she told me she was a refugee from Darfur,and could she transfer a large amount of money into my bank account.Yes,and I just fell with the last shower of rain!!! Thank you Mistress. | |
| 27 May 09, 11:13 AM Captain_Jack UK(CR), 5 yrs |
Here is some information many of you mind find useful. As most of you know, every computer on the internet, or gateway to it (like a home network router) has an IP address which is unique on the internet. Which typically allows figuring out the (rough) location of the user, like what city, etc... Not the ACTUAL address, only the ISP would know that. So the first step is for you to figure out their IP address. Then you plug it into one of the free demos of an IP-location lookup service like http://www.ip2location.com/demo.aspx or http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_ip How do you get someone's IP? One good way is to look at the headers of a received email. Chances are they are using a free mail service like from Yahoo or Hotmail and these put into the header the IP address from the user sending the mail. For example with Hotmail/Live, there's an entry in the headers called "X-Originating-IP". With Yahoo, it can be the first IP address after "Received from [". I recommend you look at the headers and try out some of the IP addresses in there until you develop a feel for it. Certain email client / mail server combinations can insert such information as well, for example under the header "X-RemoteIP" seen from Outlook Exchange. So if someone emails you from while sitting in Nigeria, pretending to be in London ... good idea to stay away. It is possible to use proxies to be a bit more sneaky, so don't consider this a fool-proof strategy to identify scammers. Hope this helps a few ppl a little. Your Captain Jack
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| 27 May 09, 11:24 AM CookieMonster UK, 6 yrs |
Thats a good way to trace spammers the getting them booted of the server by reporting them to their ISP for breach of TOS. Hotmail etc will also take action
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| 28 May 09, 7:11 PM SDWsdw UK(NW), 5 yrs |
Thanks for posting these links ! !
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| 28 May 09, 7:27 PM Jahc99 UK, 5 yrs |
Careful what you say about Clangers..... Why poison your liver when I could eat it for you? |
