Author:  ALegoBrick  Posted:  Feb 23, 2017 14:20  Subject:  Security suggestion re scammers  Viewed:  155 times  Topic:  Suggestions  Status: Discarded Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card ALegoBrick (3) Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland Member Since Contact Type Status Feb 20, 2017 Buyer

I posted this a few hours ago here: https://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=217172&nID=1028587 but i thought it might be better to do so here. Since i have some experience in infosec, i thought i vent an idea here. I just signed up a few days ago, (great to be here so far!) and noticed the same, i have had 2 haunted houses mails of under 150€, in the last 3 days. Yesterday Susan, day before Anthony. Anthony actually send me a very small, low res. pic, without ANY exif data... If you think i am crazy to check these things, well wake up and welcome to the interweb: The biggest darkest alley, filled with criminals, where you would normally never come! (and yes my friend call me internet-paranoid). Before i could answer it was sold. Never got that answer. It is a sad thing scammers... so my solution, kind off. Maybe give new sign-ups a week or so a status of "aspiring member" for an x period (week/2 weeks). In this period a new member can only buy NOT sell. (maybe even have to buy before you can sell? although that's a biggie) It is no fool proof solution, but a big hurdle for scammers looking for a quick buck. This will stop most if not all quick scammers, i take it IP addresses are already logged and banned? Maybe analyse those, is there a trend? Although i think this will help a lot, even asking for copy of ID, what i do NOT propose is no really watertight solution. (who is going to check all those, and securely safe the data of those offsite?, complience etc) my 2 cents... Kas

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