+Pigling Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Very recently two of my TBs lost several years ago (in Australia & USA) have suddenly been 'discovered'! Not the good news one would texpect it to be. It seems that new members are finding TB codes (as many as 400 at a time) on the Internet (including Facebook) and bulk logging them even though they have never even been within 1,000 miles of them! One miscreant who has been a member for just one year has 'found' 2,000 caches & 'discovered' over 8,000 Trackables! 4 TBs in every cache?! Who publishes these codes? How do they obtain them? What do genuine Geocachers think of this practice? Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Yeah, quite a few threads on the subject. Odd behavior, possibly for a challenge? Could be someone created a random number generator just to find 'em. My other 2/3rds had one (a coin) never released, never shown, turn up "discovered". Weird... Quote Link to comment
+shellbadger Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 This morning I received about 30 logs of discoveries of one of my TBs from cachers at an event in Slovenia (GC5EWE2). Instead of the usual boilerplate text, two of the emails consisted of a list of TB tracking numbers. Given its recent history, I think my TB was actually there, but still ................? Quote Link to comment
+GeoLog81 Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Have you tried contacting the people who have made discoveries and asking them where they get that code from? If you know where it was published, you can at least take some countermeasures, for example if they were published on someone's blog, you can request that they are removed. Quote Link to comment
+Shop99er Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Whenever there are big events in Europe, particularly in Germany, The various Slavic countries, or Portugal, I'll get a slew of discovered logs on several of my trackables. Now, since those very items have never left my house, the logs get deleted toot-sweet. And I do not explain why. They know they never saw it/them. Quote Link to comment
+Gustav129 Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 As virtual discoveries have been frowned on in the past, there is a Facebook page where people post their TB's asking others to be virtually discovered. One guy has a trackable that is his collection book. All trackables in the book are listed on the Collection TB page. I was kind of skeptical at first, but I did log the guy's collection. Quote Link to comment
+wmpastor Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Have you tried contacting the people who have made discoveries and asking them where they get that code from? If you know where it was published, you can at least take some countermeasures, for example if they were published on someone's blog, you can request that they are removed. It might work, but i'm pessimistic that there will even be a reply. Quote Link to comment
+Great Scott! Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 This morning I received a discover log for my 2004 USA Geocoin from a user named Trebbi. I deleted the log right away. Then I watched the account to see that he/she discovered over 5900 USA Geocoins today. Logs dated 11/28/2014. Quote Link to comment
Team Hatfield Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 This morning I received a discover log for my 2004 USA Geocoin from a user named Trebbi. I deleted the log right away. Then I watched the account to see that he/she discovered over 5900 USA Geocoins today. Logs dated 11/28/2014. Yeah, I also 4 vintage geocoins that Trebbi "discovered". The must be using some sort of software or hacked into GC.com to get all of those numbers. I deleted all the finds as well. Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Those of us that have been around for a while (like the last two posters and myself) know that USA Geocoins were one of the first Geocoins trackable on Geocaching.com. Note the bold, there were many Geocoins in 2004 trackable on their own websites. I don't know about hacking (although it's possible), but my guess is they discovered a vulnerability with a pattern in which the tracking numbers were issued in the olden days. Anyways, good news for you two I suppose, the offending user, from Germany, has gotten their account locked. In other words, a ban from the website, almost surely temporary, for x amount of time. Quote Link to comment
+CazP Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Why do some users bother to find tb numbers online? I have seen the facebook group and also some links on catchers logs/tb pages. I'm guessing it is just about the numbers. I am anew catcher but at least read the rules, did have a lucky escape when an even newer tracker logged a picture of a TB of mine and posted it with the tracking code. Only a few discovers which were deleted. Personally I enjoy sending them out and watching them travel (I have started collecting some - buy 2 just after pay day, 1 of these gets sent out and I keep the other) Quote Link to comment
DougDawn Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Is there any way to get a travel bug photo deleted from the geocaching.com master photo gallery of trackables? It was posted by the owner with its tracking code showing. Quote Link to comment
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