Re: [talk-au] Strange friend request?

[stevea]

Andy, thank you for those excellent instructions.  I've had an off-list 
conversation about these "honey-traps" (or whatever you might call a 
sociological spoof, a "social hack") and it is good when we have our wits about 
us and are wary to click on email links (and other "loose places" where we 
might compromise security) by cute people with tasty-looking pectoral muscles 
or polka-dot bikinis.

Or both.

Glad to see the DWG "raises an eyebrow of suspicion" when we mortals on the 
ground "raise an eyebrow of suspicion."  It's good.

Careful out there,
SteveA

> On Aug 29, 2021, at 1:38 AM, Andy Townsend  wrote:
> 
> I've had a few of these as well (different names to the ones mentioned). In 
> the one example that I got to before the user was deleted, the profile had a 
> link that claimed to be to a porn site.
> 
> If anyone sees any of these, the best thing to do is to click the "report 
> user" button in the user profile and report it as spam.  The admins tend to 
> delete them fairly quickly.
> 
> If "there is no user with that name" then it means that someone else has 
> reported the user already and they have already been deleted.  I believe that 
> (or the user renaming their own username) is the only way that a user can 
> appear as not existing.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Andy

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Re: [talk-au] Strange friend request?

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

Thanks, fellas.

All the page I got from "Megan" says is:
"The user Megan Ritchie does not exist

Sorry, there is no user with the name Megan Ritchie. Please check your
spelling, or maybe the link you clicked is wrong".
So I guess she was already deleted before I got to even see it?

Thanks

Graeme


On Sun, 29 Aug 2021 at 18:42, Andy Townsend  wrote:

> I've had a few of these as well (different names to the ones mentioned).
> In the one example that I got to before the user was deleted, the profile
> had a link that claimed to be to a porn site.
>
> If anyone sees any of these, the best thing to do is to click the "report
> user" button in the user profile and report it as spam.  The admins tend to
> delete them fairly quickly.
>
> If "there is no user with that name" then it means that someone else has
> reported the user already and they have already been deleted.  I believe
> that (or the user renaming their own username) is the only way that a user
> can appear as not existing.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Andy
>
>
> On 8/29/21 2:12 AM, nwastra wrote:
>
> I have also been added as a friend by user ‘Debra_Devries’ but on going to
> the link which seems legitimate, the user does not exist.
> Maybe my new friend has to do some edits before coming in to existence for
> the link?
> Thanks,
> nevw
>
> On 29 Aug 2021, at 9:51 am, Graeme Fitzpatrick 
> wrote:
>
> Bit of a weird thing to ask about ...
>
> Open up the e-mail this morning & there's an OSM message (which certainly
> appears legit?) to say that "this person" has added me as a friend.
>
> That's nice, but it appears to be a real name that I don't know, & when I
> go to look at their user page, it says that that user doesn't exist?
>
> Anybody seen this before?
>
> & if it possibly is a scam of some sort (?) who should I report it to?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
>
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Re: [talk-au] [EXTERNAL] Re: Low quality road classification contributions in SA via Microsoft Open Maps Team - contact point?

[Andy Townsend]

At the risk of repeating what might have been said earlier, I'd suggest 
commenting on one or more of the problem changesets, explaining why 
"residential" (or whatever) isn't a good fit.


If the users concerned don't reply then we (the DWG) can try and draw 
their attention to the comments before they make future changes.


Best Regards,

Andy

(from the DWG)

On 8/29/21 2:15 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
Through overpass, plus random sampling as I'm editing; I'm still 
seeing a substantial amount of misclassifications.


https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1aIk 

~2400 ways.

https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1aIl 

Most of these outside of townships appear to be still very poorly 
classified, and last edited 2 months ago.


Has any correction been done whatsoever?

On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 3:39 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick 
mailto:graemefi...@gmail.com>> wrote:



Thanks everybody for your comments.

On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 16:23, cleary mailto:o...@97k.com>> wrote:


I am insanely jealous that you can go driving in the countryside.


Sorry to make you feel bad! :-(

 Thanks

Graeme

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Re: [talk-au] [EXTERNAL] Re: Low quality road classification contributions in SA via Microsoft Open Maps Team - contact point?

[Daniel O'Connor]

Through overpass, plus random sampling as I'm editing; I'm still seeing a
substantial amount of misclassifications.

https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1aIk

~2400 ways.

https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1aIl

Most of these outside of townships appear to be still very poorly
classified, and last edited 2 months ago.

Has any correction been done whatsoever?

On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 3:39 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick 
wrote:

>
> Thanks everybody for your comments.
>
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 16:23, cleary  wrote:
>
>>
>> I am insanely jealous that you can go driving in the countryside.
>>
>
> Sorry to make you feel bad! :-(
>
>  Thanks
>
> Graeme
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Re: [talk-au] Strange friend request?

[Andy Townsend]

I've had a few of these as well (different names to the ones mentioned). 
In the one example that I got to before the user was deleted, the 
profile had a link that claimed to be to a porn site.


If anyone sees any of these, the best thing to do is to click the 
"report user" button in the user profile and report it as spam. The 
admins tend to delete them fairly quickly.


If "there is no user with that name" then it means that someone else has 
reported the user already and they have already been deleted.  I believe 
that (or the user renaming their own username) is the only way that a 
user can appear as not existing.


Best Regards,

Andy


On 8/29/21 2:12 AM, nwastra wrote:
I have also been added as a friend by user ‘Debra_Devries’ but on 
going to the link which seems legitimate, the user does not exist.
Maybe my new friend has to do some edits before coming in to existence 
for the link?

Thanks,
nevw

On 29 Aug 2021, at 9:51 am, Graeme Fitzpatrick > wrote:



Bit of a weird thing to ask about ...

Open up the e-mail this morning & there's an OSM message (which 
certainly appears legit?) to say that "this person" has added me as a 
friend.


That's nice, but it appears to be a real name that I don't know, & 
when I go to look at their user page, it says that that user doesn't 
exist?


Anybody seen this before?

& if it possibly is a scam of some sort (?) who should I report it to?

Thanks

Graeme
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Re: [talk-au] Strange friend request?

[Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-au]

If user is not existing then its spam profile was likely deleted.

Is this possibility mentioned at page of deleted user?

If not - can  you link it? Maybe it can be improved and 
mention that deleting user is common reason for spam accounts.

In general, in such case I would go to an user profile (if still existing),
press report user and as reason put "unexplained friend request, likely
spam/scam".

It may be a repeat of this private message spam, that was advertising porn 
sites.


Aug 29, 2021, 03:12 by nwas...@gmail.com:

>
> I have also been added as a friend by user ‘Debra_Devries’ but on going to 
> the link which seems legitimate, the user does not exist.
> Maybe my new friend has to do some edits before coming in to existence for 
> the link?
> Thanks,
> nevw
>
> On 29 Aug 2021, at 9:51 am, Graeme Fitzpatrick <> graemefi...@gmail.com> > 
> wrote:
>
>> Bit of a weird thing to ask about ...
>>
>> Open up the e-mail this morning & there's an OSM message (which certainly 
>> appears legit?) to say that "this person" has added me as a friend.
>>
>> That's nice, but it appears to be a real name that I don't know, & when I go 
>> to look at their user page, it says that that user doesn't exist?
>>
>> Anybody seen this before?
>>
>> & if it possibly is a scam of some sort (?) who should I report it to? 
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Graeme
>>
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