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ShakyhandsBTCer

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This is a really good security implementation. Reminded me of DannyHamilton's post:

Quote from: DannyHamilton on April 27, 2015, 10:14:52 PM

There are scammers that will create a userID that looks VERY similar to a trusted bitcointalk user (or that will purchase an old account that already has some trust feedback). They will then contact you pretending to be the trusted user. Make sure that you are talking to the person you think you are.

Here are some examples of such scammers. If you click on the userID you can see that they are not me and that they have negative feedback:
DanmyHamilton
dannyham¡lton
DannyHarnilton
DannyHamliton
DannyHamiltonn
DannyHamillton
DannyHamlton
DannyHamiltton
DannyHamiliton
DannyHamiliton
Danny Hamillton

Most of the best escrow providers in this forum have provided their public PGP key and will sign communications if you ask them to. It would be a good idea to have the public keys of all the escrow providers that you might consider using in the future and learn how to verify a PGP signature.

Welsh

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Although I understand why it was added, I never understood how some people could be so unaware of the username when talking to another user. At ths rate in few years time we'll have to spoon feed people.

hedgy73

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I love this new feature hopefully it'll help stop people being scammed and put off scammers from trying.

Superhitech

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Great! This is a nice feature!

One suggestion, I think the text should be in the center, it would look better. Also, the text, if possible, should be removed when the member gets out of the newbie status.

koelen3

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Sooner or later, a man who wears two faces forgets

Quote from: erikalui on May 03, 2015, 04:35:12 AM

There is an issue with this warning as it gets quoted in the message text. Two newbies sent me PMs and by mistake I quoted the complete message and they also got to see the warning "!!! WARNING: This user is a newbie. If you are expecting a message from a more veteran member, then this is an imposter !!!" I am now editing the quotes in the message text but it's quite time consuming to do it all the time.

Can't this be rectified?

Yes , am facing the same problem . I replied them without removing Quote and they were asking me , why is it for .
Now i have to remove it before replying if i quote the message , it would be helpful to make it automatically cropped from the Reply.

erikalui

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There is an issue with this warning as it gets quoted in the message text. Two newbies sent me PMs and by mistake I quoted the complete message and they also got to see the warning "!!! WARNING: This user is a newbie. If you are expecting a message from a more veteran member, then this is an imposter !!!" I am now editing the quotes in the message text but it's quite time consuming to do it all the time.

Can't this be rectified?

koelen3

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Sooner or later, a man who wears two faces forgets

Quote from: redsn0w on May 01, 2015, 05:31:34 AM

Quote from: koelen3 on May 01, 2015, 05:24:03 AM

Wow! i saw a similar Message today and was thinking that the guy must have typed it for some sarcastic reason .
It is a good measure as it will stop Imposters from cheating people.
Thank you Theymos.

Now I really want to bet , do you think that some newbie imposter will be able to scam another user? I think that there will be someone who will be scammed (and I am not kidding).

I remember seeing many people mostly newbies saying that they sent money to Escrow and it turned out the Escrow was just a imposter and had a slight difference in the username . I also remember seeing someone sent BTC to wrong person(imposter) for the Advertising auction of forum by Theymos. So as i think , it'll avoid newbie members to be scammed by imposters and scammers .

redsn0w

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#Free market

Quote from: dserrano5 on May 01, 2015, 03:49:00 AM

Quote from: TheButterZone on April 30, 2015, 08:54:03 PM

How difficult would it be to add a PM warning for accounts that have changed passwords recently (or ever)?

Changing passwords is a good security measure. I don't thing punishing that with a measure like this is a good idea. At most a something saying "This user has recently change their password" but without red alerts or sirens.

I have asked this improvement to theymos in that thread, but he never changed the color of the 'write' (or also the size).

Quote from: koelen3 on May 01, 2015, 05:24:03 AM

Wow! i saw a similar Message today and was thinking that the guy must have typed it for some sarcastic reason .
It is a good measure as it will stop Imposters from cheating people.
Thank you Theymos.

Now I really want to bet , do you think that some newbie imposter will be able to scam another user? I think that there will be someone who will be scammed (and I am not kidding).

koelen3

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Sooner or later, a man who wears two faces forgets

Wow! i saw a similar Message today and was thinking that the guy must have typed it for some sarcastic reason .
It is a good measure as it will stop Imposters from cheating people.
Thank you Theymos.

dserrano5

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Quote from: TheButterZone on April 30, 2015, 08:54:03 PM

How difficult would it be to add a PM warning for accounts that have changed passwords recently (or ever)?

Changing passwords is a good security measure. I don't think punishing that with a measure like this is a good idea. At most something saying "This user has recently change their password" but without red alerts or sirens.

(edit: typo, grammar)

Muhammed Zakir

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I prefer Zakir over Muhammed when mentioning me!

Thank you, theymos. Good addition. Hopefully, imposters times are over.

redsn0w

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#Free market

Thanks for this improvement, theymos! Now I think there will not be scam made by imposter anymore (like in the auction thread for the ad slot, etcetera).

jacktheking

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Quote from: hilariousandco on May 01, 2015, 12:51:46 AM

Can we get an air raid siren noise that blasts out as soon as you open a pm from a newbie as well? Like this http://youtu.be/HHLERpO4HuI Grin

Quote from: Josef27 on April 30, 2015, 09:48:07 PM

Good Idea, but are peoples really fall into their traps? The rank display already look obvious for me and could be avoided easily Undecided

Well you would think not but it's not that uncommon. One was successful recently on the forum ad slot auction and I've seen it happen a handful of times there before https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11217900

I'm sure it's tried by someone weekly and a lot of users might not even report when they've been scammed out of embarrassment.

Was looking at the linked post. Trying to find fake acount. Read the whole post and only to find out I did not see that the quoted post was a fake post..

hilariousandco

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Can we get an air raid siren noise that blasts out as soon as you open a pm from a newbie as well? Like this http://youtu.be/HHLERpO4HuI Grin

Quote from: Josef27 on April 30, 2015, 09:48:07 PM

Good Idea, but are peoples really fall into their traps? The rank display already look obvious for me and could be avoided easily Undecided

Well you would think not but it's not that uncommon. One was successful recently on the forum ad slot auction and I've seen it happen a handful of times there before https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11217900

I'm sure it's tried by someone weekly and a lot of users might not even report when they've been scammed out of embarrassment.

Quickseller

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I like this idea, although I do see one flaw that may actually make it more difficult to find/out scammers (that I sent a PM amount).

I have gotten a pretty good number of these newbie imposter scammers, and they have pretty much all been blatantly obvious, at least to me.

Neotox

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Its a good security update and I think all new users will accept this expect those who are here to scam other.Legit users won't have any problem with this.I just got a PM from newbie and it was showing warning there.

dogie

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Quote from: EFS on April 30, 2015, 08:47:16 PM

I found hard to believe old users fall for newbies scam attempts easily. Hope this helps. Good addition theymos.

Its not that farfetched when you're expecting a PM from someone without an Avatar. Traders of advertisers especially get a lot of PMs and so might just skim for the content of a PM they were expecting.

TenderLoins

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Im a newbie at the moment but I agree, this is a great implementation for security.

xetsr

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Quote from: Josef27 on April 30, 2015, 09:48:07 PM

Good Idea, but are peoples really fall into their traps? The rank display already look obvious for me and could be avoided easily Undecided

Look around. It happens all the time.. Scammers are gonna be pissed off about this one. Nice job

Would be nice to see something about password changes like TheButterZone suggested. Can usually be found on the trust page but would be so much easier if the warning was made clear on the private message. People around here seem to be lazy sometimes or just don't make it to the trust page before completing a deal :\

Josef27

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Good Idea, but are peoples really fall into their traps? The rank display already look obvious for me and could be avoided easily Undecided

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