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Sure a lot of posers lately

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Basil

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I have been running into a larger number of "posers" registering here lately. What I mean by "poser" is someone registering and claiming to be in "USA" but their IP traces to someplace like China, Pakistan, or some such place. The most recent was someone claiming to be in USA but their IP traced to Ukraine. (I trace all IPs before approving accounts here to try to limit the likelihood of spammers or phishers in order to protect the members here).
 
We're just glad you have the wherewithal to handle that!
:thumbsup:
 
Basil, what would someone hope to accomplish by such action? What are they trying to do?
 
Mostly they want to spam, scam, data harvest, blah blah.

I gave up and completely banned several countries from my sites by all their IPs.
 
It's still up in the air as wether or not MS is part of the US. :jester:


Actually, the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain isn't US soil. From the Pearl River to the MS River and the lake to the north border of the boot tip wasn't part of the Louisiana purchase. It was still part of Florida. When Spain sold Florida to the US, that area of land wasn't in the deal. It was never transfered legally into US ownership. The US just took it over , but it was never paid for and legally, still Spainish soil.

When you travel I10, there is a sign that says "West Florida Republic Parkway" with a white star. This was the first "Lone Star Rebublic" in the US, way before Texas.

The way laws are handled in the area is like it's in a whole other country as the powers that be do as they please.
 
aerog said:
Mostly they want to spam, scam, data harvest, blah blah.

I gave up and completely banned several countries from my sites by all their IPs.
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That is exactly what they try to do.
 
Trevor Triumph said:
Solipsistic... I get it. I had to look it up. But it is about me. T.T.
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:smirk:
 
That is yet another reason I like this site, the care and time you put into it to help protect us
 
The thing that sucks about this is I can't register as my alternate rapper ego, Chill E Cheeze Dawg. ( Featuring Poppa Cap and Ice Trey.)
 
But surely this unfairly discriminates against all those poor Ukrainian LBC owners.... :jester:
 
JamesWilson said:
But surely this unfairly discriminates against all those poor Ukrainian LBC owners.... :jester:
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umm... Too late. Horsemits is Uki. We've been infiltrated. :blush:
 
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