[Az-Geocaching] New Fake cache logger - FYI

[Jim Scotti]

He hit 3 of my virtuals and 3 others I watch as well.  I was going to give 
him a little bit to produce pictures and then confront him (politely, of 
course).  The log date is Dec. 31, 2007, so the logs could easily be 
overlooked by inattentive cache owners.

I had a cache that was being falsely claimed by primarily German cachers.  I 
got suspicious and finally looked at the cachers activities and found a 
couple of them visiting caches that would have made a Star Trek transporter 
part of the necessary caching equipment in order to visit such a diverse set 
of locations in a single day.  I changed the requirements and have only had 
one faker try since (with the old answer, and yes, he was from Germany).

Jim.

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, ShadowAce wrote:

> http://www.geocaching.com/profile/default.aspx?guid=a04344d8-a7df-4233-ad21-fe144716fde1
>
> Profile for User: The-Sledge
>
> He has logged everything I own as a virtual and simply wrote "Email sent"
> as the log.
>
> So since my virtuals require pictures I sent a polite email back asking for
> the pictures and decided to check his profile and see if it is a visitor or
> a new AZ Cacher.
>
> Interestingly he found 129 virtual and no physical caches:
>
> Member Since:  Thursday, February 26, 2009   Last Visit:  Thursday, February
> 26, 2009
> In the amount of time it took to write that much he went from 129 to 143
> finds..
>
> Name  Count
> <http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?tx=294d4360-ac86-4c83-84dd-8113ef678d7e&ul=The-Sledge>
> Virtual Caches * 143
> ------------------------------
>  **Total Caches Found*  * 143 *
>
> ranging from Arizona to Alaska to Connecticut and Hawaii on the SAME DAY
>
> Someone needs to help stop these fake logs :(
> I am simply going to delete any and all logs from them until they can
> provide the required information however I thought you all might want to
> know
>

I'm not normally a religious man, but if you're up there, save me,
Superman! - Homer Simpson
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Jim Scotti
Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721 USA                 http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/