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JMAYOESQ
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 Posted: Sat 12 Mar 2005 14:06 Post subject: IDENTIFYING A WOULD BE THIEF! |
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Hello,
When someone as a potential scammer, identifies themself and what organization they represent, is there a way to check out their identity and if they truly work for this organization?
Sincerely,
John Manion |
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| Posted: Sat 12 Mar 2005 16:06 Post subject: |
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Welcome.
Trying to varify the identity of an individual by way of their apparent organisation is sometimes difficult. If the person states that he/she is from an organisation that really does exist then you could contact the organisation by finding their contact details on the internet or other sources.
You can then phone, email or use their forum asking to varify a persons identity. However, if an individual is a known scammer, they may make details up to try and fool you. In this case it may be very difficult.
If you post more details here we may be able to assist you in your search. |
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SolitaryMan
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| Posted: Sat 12 Mar 2005 18:26 Post subject: |
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| A first checkpoint is the email address they use. If it they claim to represent a legitimate organization but use yahoo, hotmail or other free email addresses, they are almost certainly scammers. |
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stuka
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| Posted: Tue 06 Sep 2005 09:35 Post subject: |
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well, yes.
first of all, check up on their ip adresses. they are included in the email headers the scammers sends you.
use a nice smart program like VisualWhois to see if the scammers sending location is actualy where he says it is.
if that checks out, then do a google search of the email address. many times it has been blacklisted on 419 sites and you can see if it belongs to a known scammer.
if they provide you with a website that looks authentic, then use this web-based search tool to check it out: http://www.dnsstuff.com/
u can find out if the website is being hosted by a free .com webhosting service (which is normaly the case).
like mentioned before, if the scammers say they are legitimate business-men, then why do they use free email account, instead of a corporate adress.
hope this helps  |
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| Posted: Tue 06 Sep 2005 11:07 Post subject: |
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Thanks for your input stuka, however this is an old thread. If you want to discuss this topic its best to start a new thread which a link referring back to the old one.
The reason we have the rule about thread necromany is that members who posted in the original thread may no longer be around and therefore you may not receive a response to your post.
Thread necromany is covered in this section of the site guidelines:
| Quote: | | Please avoid thread necromany (that is: posting in a thread that has been inactive for several months to bump it back to the top again). Old threads will usually little relevance anymore. Also, members that posted in it may not be around anymore. If you really want to bring up an old discussion again because you have something of value to add, post a new thread and put a link in it to the old thread. That way people do not have to read through all the old posts to see what is new. |
You will probably want to read the whole of the site guidelines as it will tell you what is and what isn't acceptable on this site. |
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