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May 01, 2015, 01:03:51 AM |
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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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May 01, 2015, 01:06:37 AM |
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Thanks for this update. Automation is going to be helpful when it comes to fighting impostors.
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May 01, 2015, 01:08:49 AM |
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We know people have fallen for newbie scams before (like account names with ' after them) This is a good improvement.
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May 01, 2015, 01:47:16 AM |
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I found hard to believe old users fall for newbies scam attempts easily. Hope this helps. Good addition theymos.
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May 01, 2015, 01:54:03 AM |
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How difficult would it be to add a PM warning for accounts that have changed passwords recently (or ever)?
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Saying that you don't trust someone because of their behavior is completely valid.
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May 01, 2015, 01:59:28 AM |
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This is an awesome idea. Will hopefully prevent the situations where scammers imitate the names of reputable members.
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May 01, 2015, 02:01:58 AM |
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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.
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So sad! This profile does not appear as the #1 result (on anonymous) Google searches anymore.
Time to be active on the crypto forums again? Proud to be one of the few Legendary members of the Sparkie Red Dot!
Gonna put this on my resume if I ever join a cryptocurrency/blockchain industry!
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Josef27
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May 01, 2015, 02:48:07 AM |
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Good Idea, but are peoples really fall into their traps? The rank display already look obvious for me and could be avoided easily
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May 01, 2015, 02:51:37 AM |
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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 :\
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May 01, 2015, 02:52:30 AM |
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Im a newbie at the moment but I agree, this is a great implementation for security.
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May 01, 2015, 03:08:18 AM |
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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.
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May 01, 2015, 04:24:21 AM |
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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.
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May 01, 2015, 05:04:18 AM |
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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.
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May 01, 2015, 05:51:46 AM |
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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#msg11217900I'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.
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May 01, 2015, 06:26:34 AM |
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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#msg11217900I'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..
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So sad! This profile does not appear as the #1 result (on anonymous) Google searches anymore.
Time to be active on the crypto forums again? Proud to be one of the few Legendary members of the Sparkie Red Dot!
Gonna put this on my resume if I ever join a cryptocurrency/blockchain industry!
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May 01, 2015, 07:49:08 AM |
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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).
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May 01, 2015, 08:30:09 AM |
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Thank you, theymos. Good addition. Hopefully, imposters times are over.
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May 01, 2015, 08:49:00 AM Last edit: May 03, 2015, 09:42:45 AM by dserrano5 |
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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)
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May 01, 2015, 10:24:03 AM |
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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.
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May 01, 2015, 10:31:34 AM |
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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).
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