[Possible Geocache Vandal - How do I handle/report suspicious activity?]

Good points.  I thought mine was premium but I’ll check.

 

Another local cacher reached out to me - he/she was having the exact same odd communications from viper200, and will now check out his hides.

[Possible Geocache Vandal - How do I handle/report suspicious activity?]

Hello, everyone.

 

I have placed just a few caches in my area, and one cacher has sent me messages about them, including someone stealing my cache.  Yet, when I go to check the cache, it's still there.  In one case, he sent me some spam, and lo and behold the next day the cache was emptied out and moved.  Very suspicious.  I've attached images of the messages.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

 

[Logs and Souvenirs disappearing/reappearing for anyone else?]

update - Surface Of The Sun is back.  Hmm...

[Logs and Souvenirs disappearing/reappearing for anyone else?]

2 minutes ago, Max and 99 said:

I'll ask the first obvious question. Are you using the latest app version? 

 

Yes, it's the latest version. 

 

GC8HWHC just reappeared...lol.  But as for the GC5E8WX Surface of the Sun, that is still not showing up on the app for me.

[Logs and Souvenirs disappearing/reappearing for anyone else?]

For example, I deciphered and found GC8HWHC, but a  does not appear on the website or on the app.

 

Then, today when I found GC5E8WX, I received credit for the Surface Of The Sun souvenirs...and then it disappeared the next time I opened the app!

[IPhone is not showing many caches found on geocaching.com website. Why?]

On 4/13/2021 at 8:19 PM, Treasurefox said:

I have a Premium membership and had spotted on geocaching.com, a recently placed cache near my home. I do most of my geocaching from my iPhone. My phone is signed into my account when using the geocaching app. I discovered this cache was not viewable on my iPhone. 

 

This has been happening to me, too.  They show up in Cachly, but not in the "official" app sometimes for me.  Even when I log them as Found, they still don't show up.  It only happens occasionally.  It's REALLY irritating.

[What to do when a CO disappears?]

Thanks a lot, everyone.

[What to do when a CO disappears?]

A pretty prolific cacher in my area, Irish Kidz , hasn't logged in for quite some time and a number of his/her caches are in dire need of upkeep or have disappeared.  What can cachers do when this happens?

 

Thanks.

[Lost Northern Virginia Geocache - "Four Kittens"]

I found a little geocache outside of a restaurant.  The log inside says, "Official Geocache - "Four Kittens," and was last signed in 2017.  Perhaps it dropped out of someone's purse?  I'm happy to mail it to the owner.

 

[Can I Reassign/Unregister Travel Bugs?]

10 minutes ago, cerberus1 said:

All I see is two  patches in your inventory, both with a release date of 21 April,  with a goal and description filled out on both. 

Odd  (if that's it - "local heroes" - since you say you found it in a note) that it would be a patch as well (the other a centennial games patch).

The link on your posted Note (Not a Retrieve from a cache)  just puts me on a map, so couldn't figure what cache it might have come from either to help.

 

It wouldn't be the first time we've seen unactivated trackables left as swag, we do it sometimes as well.  Couple dozen TBs left and around a hundred coins (all unactivated), we sometimes leave 'em in caches that are much further than forty feet from a parking lot.

 

Yes, I found them BOTH on 21 April.  One was found in Gabrielle's Gold and the other in Now Go Home!

 

When I went to log them, it asked me to register them - and me, never having found a trackable before, just registered them.  It's Travel Bug Dog Tag that I'm trying to unregsiter now.

[Can I Reassign/Unregister Travel Bugs?]

1 hour ago, Eartha said:

If you were able to register it, it was probably left as "swag" and it was meant to be kept by whoever traded for it. Remember, trade up, trade even, or don't trade at all.

If not, it might be hard to find out who put it there, unless there is mention of it in the logs on the cache page, in which case you could email, or message them through their profile page and ask if they left it unregistered on purpose. Some people have not, when they wished they had, but didn't know, so it is nice to ask, but it's also mire rare than someone leaving it as swag. Do you have a link to the cache page? You can message it to me, if you'd like me to research what I can. Or you can research it. Up to you. 

 

The owner actually pinged me:  "Hi! Could you check the geotag you registered on April 21st? My son purchased <tracking code removed by moderator> so that he could complete his BSA merit badge, but it seems to have been registered by you. I know the system is somewhat 'accident prone.' Was hoping you could 'unregister' the tag or give us access to it so that he can complete the merit badge."

[Can I Reassign/Unregister Travel Bugs?]

I found my first travel bug and came online to log it.  It turns out I accidentally REGISTERED it.  I would like to let it go so the original owner can reclaim it.  How can I undo my error?