Newbie PM warning

[theymos]

PMs from newbies now have a warning added to the beginning of the PM. The warning is actually added to the PM's text, so it won't be added to old PMs or removed when the sender leaves newbie status.

The warning is:
!!! WARNING: This user is a newbie. If you are expecting a message from a more veteran member, then this is an imposter !!!

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[alani123]

Thanks for this update. Automation is going to be helpful when it comes to fighting impostors.

[Vod]

We know people have fallen for newbie scams before (like account names with ' after them)

This is a good improvement. 

[EFS]

I found hard to believe old users fall for newbies scam attempts easily. Hope this helps. Good addition theymos.

[TheButterZone]

How difficult would it be to add a PM warning for accounts that have changed passwords recently (or ever)?

[koshgel]

This is an awesome idea. Will hopefully prevent the situations where scammers imitate the names of reputable members.

[jacktheking]

Hmm.. Good idea. If you could, why not have it on old message too? Just check if the message at the time of sending is Newbie or not. After that, we could have a personal setting that let us set a minimum rank to show warning for message.

[Josef27]

Good Idea, but are peoples really fall into their traps? The rank display already look obvious for me and could be avoided easily

[xetsr]

Good Idea, but are peoples really fall into their traps? The rank display already look obvious for me and could be avoided easily

Look around. It happens all the time.. Scammers are gonna be pissed off about this one. Nice job

Would be nice to see something about password changes like TheButterZone suggested. Can usually be found on the trust page but would be so much easier if the warning was made clear on the private message. People around here seem to be lazy sometimes or just don't make it to the trust page before completing a deal :\

[TenderLoins]

Im a newbie at the moment but I agree, this is a great implementation for security.

[dogie]

I found hard to believe old users fall for newbies scam attempts easily. Hope this helps. Good addition theymos.

Its not that farfetched when you're expecting a PM from someone without an Avatar. Traders of advertisers especially get a lot of PMs and so might just skim for the content of a PM they were expecting.

[Neotox]

Its a good security update and I think all new users will accept this expect those who are here to scam other.Legit users won't have any problem with this.I just got a PM from newbie and it was showing warning there.

[Quickseller]

I like this idea, although I do see one flaw that may actually make it more difficult to find/out scammers (that I sent a PM amount).

I have gotten a pretty good number of these newbie imposter scammers, and they have pretty much all been blatantly obvious, at least to me.

[hilariousandco]

Can we get an air raid siren noise that blasts out as soon as you open a pm from a newbie as well? Like this http://youtu.be/HHLERpO4HuI  

Good Idea, but are peoples really fall into their traps? The rank display already look obvious for me and could be avoided easily

Well you would think not but it's not that uncommon. One was successful recently on the forum ad slot auction and I've seen it happen a handful of times there before https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1029623.msg11217900#msg11217900

I'm sure it's tried by someone weekly and a lot of users might not even report when they've been scammed out of embarrassment.

[jacktheking]

Can we get an air raid siren noise that blasts out as soon as you open a pm from a newbie as well? Like this http://youtu.be/HHLERpO4HuI  

Good Idea, but are peoples really fall into their traps? The rank display already look obvious for me and could be avoided easily

Well you would think not but it's not that uncommon. One was successful recently on the forum ad slot auction and I've seen it happen a handful of times there before https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1029623.msg11217900#msg11217900

I'm sure it's tried by someone weekly and a lot of users might not even report when they've been scammed out of embarrassment.

Was looking at the linked post. Trying to find fake acount. Read the whole post and only to find out I did not see that the quoted post was a fake post..

[redsn0w]

Thanks for this improvement, theymos! Now I think there will not be scam made by imposter anymore (like in the auction thread for the ad slot, etcetera).

[Muhammed Zakir]

Thank you, theymos. Good addition. Hopefully, imposters times are over.

[dserrano5]

How difficult would it be to add a PM warning for accounts that have changed passwords recently (or ever)?

Changing passwords is a good security measure. I don't think punishing that with a measure like this is a good idea. At most something saying "This user has recently change their password" but without red alerts or sirens.

(edit: typo, grammar)

[koelen3]

Wow! i saw a similar Message today and was thinking that the guy must have typed it for some sarcastic reason .
It is a good measure as it will stop Imposters from cheating people.
Thank you Theymos.

[redsn0w]

How difficult would it be to add a PM warning for accounts that have changed passwords recently (or ever)?

Changing passwords is a good security measure. I don't thing punishing that with a measure like this is a good idea. At most a something saying "This user has recently change their password" but without red alerts or sirens.

I have asked this improvement to theymos in that thread, but he never changed the color of the 'write' (or also the size).

Wow! i saw a similar Message today and was thinking that the guy must have typed it for some sarcastic reason .
It is a good measure as it will stop Imposters from cheating people.
Thank you Theymos.

Now I really want to bet , do you think that some newbie imposter will be able to scam another user? I think that there will be someone who will be scammed (and I am not kidding).