+BBWolf+3Pigs Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 A long missing TB of mine was just logged "Log Date: 4/10/2013 Discovered. Thanks for sharing this. Greets from Germany. " I was suspicious and decided to look at the logger's profile. He appears to have logged hundreds of TBs/GCs in the last couple of days with the same log. Many of them have been missing for years. Who do I need to contact to prevent further logging by this indivual? Quote Link to comment
+TC+12 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Well not sure if you can stop that one particular individual, but you can have Groundspeak lock your TB so that not further logs can be made on it. I wish you Good Luck in stopping this guy though!! Quote Link to comment
Pup Patrol Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 A long missing TB of mine was just logged "Log Date: 4/10/2013 Discovered. Thanks for sharing this. Greets from Germany. " I was suspicious and decided to look at the logger's profile. He appears to have logged hundreds of TBs/GCs in the last couple of days with the same log. Many of them have been missing for years. Who do I need to contact to prevent further logging by this indivual? I would guess only Groundspeak could do anything, if they do anything about this sort of shenanigan. B. Quote Link to comment
+Dr.MORO Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 A long missing TB of mine was just logged "Log Date: 4/10/2013 Discovered. Thanks for sharing this. Greets from Germany. " I was suspicious and decided to look at the logger's profile. He appears to have logged hundreds of TBs/GCs in the last couple of days with the same log. Many of them have been missing for years. Who do I need to contact to prevent further logging by this indivual? Domo!!! Same here, sort of. I long lost TB I still had on my Watchlist, just got logged by the probably the same guys. http://coord.info/TBD738 Very suspicious... Maybe just randomly typing in numbers, and bogusly logging whatever hits. Dumb use of the mind... Quote Link to comment
+BBWolf+3Pigs Posted April 10, 2013 Author Share Posted April 10, 2013 A long missing TB of mine was just logged "Log Date: 4/10/2013 Discovered. Thanks for sharing this. Greets from Germany. " I was suspicious and decided to look at the logger's profile. He appears to have logged hundreds of TBs/GCs in the last couple of days with the same log. Many of them have been missing for years. Who do I need to contact to prevent further logging by this indivual? Domo!!! Same here, sort of. I long lost TB I still had on my Watchlist, just got logged by the probably the same guys. http://coord.info/TBD738 Very suspicious... Maybe just randomly typing in numbers, and bogusly logging whatever hits. Dumb use of the mind... Same guy. Quote Link to comment
+Frodo_Underhill Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Got hit with the same log by the same guy on one of mine. http://coord.info/TBJ4EN I am finding these logs on the older travel bugs whose tracking numbers consisted only of the digits 0 - 9 I have "grabbed" the bug so that it now appears in "the hands of the owner". I also posted the following log when I grabbed it. This travel bug is not in Germany or any other part of Europe. It is lost. Any further falsified logs from those areas will be deleted. Diese "travel bug" nicht in Deutschland oder einem anderen Teil von Europa. Es geht verloren. Alle weiteren gefälschten Protokolle aus jenen Bereichen, werden gelöscht. Perhaps this will slow down bogus logs. It would be nice to be able to lock and unlock travel bugs when this problem arises Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 I just delete them. I've never had one re-logged. If they did I would definitely report it as abuse. Quote Link to comment
+justintim1999 Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 (edited) In Dr.Moro's case (http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?tracker=TBD738) It looks like he's getting the tracking number from the picture on the travel bug page. many people are "discovering" trackables online using pictures that show the tracking number. I think you should physically have the traveler in your hand to log or discover it. The only way to stop this is to educate cachers to make sure they don't show the tracking number in any of the pictures they post. For Travel bugs it's easy enough to turn the travel tag over to the side that doesn't contain the tracking number. Here is what I do for geocoins. Go to http://www.irfanview.com and download the free image viewer (I'm sure many other free image viewers will have this capability but Irfanview is the one I've always used) Load the picture of the coin. Using your mouse select the area around the tracking code (you can use the magnifying glass on the tool bar to enlarge the image and make it easier to work on) On the toolbar select Image/Effects/Effect browser. Select an effect (I use Explosion, Pixelize or Twirl) and use the slider to distort the selected image. When your done click ok and save the image. Now you can post any picture and have the tracking number obscured. After looking at the account profile I was able to manipulate many of the pictures of the travel bugs he has found and get the tracking number. There a lot of them I can't figure out. May just be entering codes until he hits one. Sad Edited April 11, 2013 by justintim1999 Quote Link to comment
spiny norman Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 (edited) I got hit by the same männlich! "Log Date: 4/10/2013 Discovered. Thanks for sharing this. Greets from Germany. " If he spent that kind of time and effort to get the number from the bug's picture, he must live a very sad and lonely existance. We were so excited to see the bug back after 10+ years. Now just In Dr.Moro's case (http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?tracker=TBD738) It looks like he's getting the tracking number from the picture on the travel bug page. many people are "discovering" trackables online using pictures that show the tracking number. I think you should physically have the traveler in your hand to log or discover it. The only way to stop this is to educate cachers to make sure they don't show the tracking number in any of the pictures they post. For Travel bugs it's easy enough to turn the travel tag over to the side that doesn't contain the tracking number. Here is what I do for geocoins. Go to http://www.irfanview.com and download the free image viewer (I'm sure many other free image viewers will have this capability but Irfanview is the one I've always used) Load the picture of the coin. Using your mouse select the area around the tracking code (you can use the magnifying glass on the tool bar to enlarge the image and make it easier to work on) On the toolbar select Image/Effects/Effect browser. Select an effect (I use Explosion, Pixelize or Twirl) and use the slider to distort the selected image. When your done click ok and save the image. Now you can post any picture and have the tracking number obscured. After looking at the account profile I was able to manipulate many of the pictures of the travel bugs he has found and get the tracking number. There a lot of them I can't figure out. May just be entering codes until he hits one. Sad Edited April 11, 2013 by spiny norman Quote Link to comment
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