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			 by padey on Fri May 26, 2006 9:04 am
 I just received this question from my lens auction;
 Now that site is a front for this guy that requests your eBay user name and password. He then gets the info to your account!
 Apart for alerting eBay, can we get this guy? Flood him with fake accounts? Any ideas?
 If any you computer nerds know a better way. I'm all ears!Andrew
 
 Canon make photocopiers and stick lenses on them....
 
			
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 by Michael on Fri May 26, 2006 9:46 am
 people can ping his IP with large packets, hopefully enough to DDOS it. Last edited by Michael  on Fri May 26, 2006 9:54 am, edited 1 time in total.
					
				Are we there yet? 
			
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 by gstark on Fri May 26, 2006 9:52 am
 Andrew,
 Sadly, you just have to get over it.
 
 I would lovce to be able to send some sort of bomb back to all of the spammers that send me crap - I run my own servers, and it really pisses me off more than you can imagine to recieve that sort of crap.
 
 Similarly, we get a number of fake logins here every so often - usually a couple each week. I've taken steps to eliminate them from open proxy sites and to stop scripted signups, but a few morons still try to do this manually. They're quite easily identifiable because we now change their occupation to something appropriate: village idiot.
 
 But the other day I was looking to find something that could either shut down their browser or turn off their pc while executing the script, but nothing acceptable turned up.
 g.Gary Stark
 Nikon, Canon, Bronica .... stuff
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 by gstark on Fri May 26, 2006 9:57 am
 The IP address is owned by a Rumanian Telco.
 Here's some of the details from a WhoIs query ...
 person:         Honoriu Lazar address:        TELEMOBIL S.A. address:        2 B Bis, Calea Bucuresti, address:        Balotesti, Jud. Ilfov address:        Romania phone:          +40-21-4024444 fax-no:         +40-21-4023256 e-mail:         Honoriu.Lazar@telemobil.ro nic-hdl:        HL525-RIPE mnt-by:         TELEMOBIL-MNT changed:        honoriu.lazar@telemobil.ro  20051101 source:         RIPE
 and an email to Honoriu.Lazar@telemobil.ro  complaining of network abuse can't hurt.g.Gary Stark
 Nikon, Canon, Bronica .... stuff
 The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it - US Pres. Bartlet
 
			
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 by padey on Fri May 26, 2006 10:09 am
 and another scam; registered yesterday, scam today...
http://www.ebay.ph/viItem?ItemId=7621290716Andrew
 
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 by Glen on Fri May 26, 2006 10:19 am
 
Andrew, you are right that link you put above seems as dodgy as all hell! Have a look at the images, that guy is trying to pass himself off as some sort of wedding photographer    
			
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 by radar on Fri May 26, 2006 10:24 am
 Hi,
 just a note of caution:
 
 By visiting dodgy sites, you better be sure that your browser software is fully up to date on fixes. It doesn't matter if you are using Firefox, Internet Explorer, <insert favourite browser>, Windows, Mac, Linux,  they all contain some vulnerabilities that could be exploited by visiting dodgy sites.
 
 Cheers,
 
 André
 Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. Ansel Adams
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 by Glen on Fri May 26, 2006 11:32 am
 It seems the scammer Andrew pointed out sold his lens. Congratulations    
			
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 by Michael on Fri May 26, 2006 11:37 am
 Yes, I bought it with my fake escrow account. Are we there yet? 
			
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 by padey on Fri May 26, 2006 12:25 pm
 Glen wrote:It seems the scammer Andrew pointed out sold his lens. Congratulations   
 Yes, and i hear the lucky bugger has now bought a 200mm f2.  Andrew
 
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 by Glen on Fri May 26, 2006 12:28 pm
 Congratulations Andrew, hope you enjoy your 200 f2    
			
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