Comments on: 5 ways to sniff out online fakers

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:01:15 +0000

It says ‘localtime’ in the article.

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 20:59:42 +0000

The article says “Most fake accounts are created late at night local time: 3:00 a.m “. You obviously don’t know what ‘localtime’ means.

By: wasteOFtime

wasteOFtime — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:47:17 +0000

This article was by an poser for other posers

Perhaps a email that begins

“Consulate wants to transfer 1 million dollars to you” is the only legitimate statement you could have made.

Late night ? There’s this thing called earth that is round and you have overseas orders – complex I know.

By: realist50

realist50 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:11:32 +0000

“People using Chrome on Windows XP are four times more likely to create a fake ID than the average user”

I don’t see how this tells us much unless we know the relevant percentages, i.e., if 1% of all users are fake but 4% of people using Chrome on Windows XP are fake, so what? (The overwhelming majority are still real users. Any business flagging people on Chrome on Windows XP as probably fake would therefore be driving away mostly legitimate users by making things tough for them.

By: Mickey

Mickey — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:14:34 +0000

Ulthman, (or is it Barrister Ulthman?) there is a reason most internet fraud is referred to as a “419″. This so called “Advance Fee Fraud” has become an industry in Nigeria, and the surrounding countries. Another common name is “419 fraud” after Section 419 of the Nigerian Penal code, the section that specifically prohibits this type of crime. While the scam is not limited to Nigeria, the nation has become associated with this fraud and it has earned an unenviable reputation for being an epicenter of email scam crimes.
Check out : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_scam

By: Felicity

Felicity — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:53:35 +0000

That would be “Phrenology”. Some of Terry Pratchett’s books also featured the opposite, retrophrenology, where the practitioner would change the shape of the patient’s cranium in order to influence whether their criminal tendencies (or willingness to use Chrome or XP). Each retrophrenologist came equipped with a big mallet… I suppose the lart would be a similar technology.

By: Ondrej

Ondrej — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 08:40:31 +0000

OMFG… It’s 3:36am and I’m reading this in Chrome on XP. At least I’m in Oklahoma, but hey there are them proxies! If people like these have their way, it’s all going to end in tears.

By: greg

greg — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:47:59 +0000

As someone who deals with Nigeria on a daily basis I can say fraud is a major issue and even though there is a problem in most countries Nigeria is famous for its culture of corruption. Anyone who deals with Africa will note this and though the 100% claim is absurd – so is the claim that most Americans have no idea about the rest of the world.

Getting back to the actual topic … the examples shown are crude and anyone depending on this type of analysis should hire those from the finance world to get more insight – especially anyone from the money transfer (remittance) world.

Anyways .. hope to see more metrics.

By: John Gunn

John Gunn — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:42:52 +0000

Was thinking the same thing socky. Seurity companies rarely give the bad guys a roadmap to the was they get screened out

By: A friend

A friend — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:07:31 +0000

This is nothing but bs, fraudsters will adapt quickly. Simply setting my user agent to Safari running on Mac, clicking a few pages and not logging in from Nigeria will defeat your screening procedure? How long do you think it takes for them to catch on?