+Cape Geckos Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 I received this contact via the website this morning: "You should be aware that geocaches are often located on private and public property without proper permission. Groundspeak has no way of verifying that proper permission has been obtained. Instead they rely on "adequate" permission asserted by the hider of the cache. There have been a number of instances where geocachers have been detained by law enforcement. Recently there have been several of instances where property owners have come to the forums to alert geocachers to caches placed on their property without their permission. Before you continue in this hobby you should question the legalities of this activity. User's Profile: http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=ed...d3-f9599e16b51e " Does anyone know who Fuzzbuket is? They appear to have a brand new profile and ahve not responded to my response contact via the website. Has anyone recently found one of my caches and been approached by anyone? In which case, which cache was it? Quote Link to comment
+trevorh7000 Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 I have heard of a case of someone even signing up for premium membership to read cache info so they could remove the premium only caches that were apparently offending them. Apparently this is quite common overseas. Fuzzbuket would do well to be a little less cryptic and a little more direct - if he has bothered to join up that mean he has bothered to do a little research. Just a little bit more would have led to him to report directly to GS any unsuitable caches. Keep us informed if the fuzzy one replies to you. Trev Quote Link to comment
+Fish Eagle Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Ignore it - it's spam. Quote Link to comment
+trevorh7000 Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 I have heard of a case of someone even signing up for premium membership to read cache info so they could remove the premium only caches that were apparently offending them. Apparently this is quite common overseas. Fuzzbuket would do well to be a little less cryptic and a little more direct - if he has bothered to join up that mean he has bothered to do a little research. Just a little bit more would have led to him to report directly to GS any unsuitable caches. Keep us informed if the fuzzy one replies to you. Trev PS - if you google fuzzbucket you wil find this thread http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=257897 Seems as if the fuzzy wonder has been sending the same email to many others - so DO complain about it and surely that account will be removed. Quote Link to comment
+Cape Geckos Posted August 20, 2010 Author Share Posted August 20, 2010 Thanks for the feedback guys. I will definitely report it. I dont understand why people are like this. To quote a friend of min "I have lots of faith in humanity, but very little in humans" Quote Link to comment
cache-fan Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 We also received this mail. Quote Link to comment
+BruceTP Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 User's Profile: http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=ed...d3-f9599e16b51e " Does anyone know who Fuzzbuket is? They appear to have a brand new profile and ahve not responded to my response contact via the website. I see that GS have acted swiftly and banned them from the game and rightly so... Quote Link to comment
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