Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire reason for new members all of a sudden...please read

saw this on another thread. I have no way to know the truth of it, but it makes sense.

the search pulls up following new members:

wilssoon

teguh0655

Billyston18

and 12 threads

If that is the case they should be banned.
Any idea as to why they are spamming a bunch of gun forums?

The left is really ramping up the attacks on guns and gun owners.
All their usual methods in the past have not been able go as far as they would like.
Time to try something new and different to smear us?
Get a high post count and then start making threatening posts to try and make gun owners appear crazy and violent?
It is something to watch.

They can post those short links easily on say Twitter.

'Look at how bad gun owner are'

Rick needs to nip it

Yeah. What info could they be gathering Sycamore....if that is your real name!

Ban them, couldn't it be NRA funded also ?

Thanks for the info.

I don't know. but what is the purpose of signing on to a website in order to cut and paste a post from another website, and attach an invisible picture (1x1)?

I have got email messages that said "pictures not downloaded to protect your privacy" . Which indicates opening, or receiving a message with a picture tells the sender "something"? maybe just that it is a valid email?

not sure the purpose, hoping the tech savvy gents can help sort this out.

p/s Sycamore is not my real name, but Jim_Conrad was taken

I have already seen "teguh0655" on this site a number of times 4 times to be exact so far

teguh0655 Offline
Joined 04/04/18
Last Seen Yesterday at 11:31 AM
Total Posts 4 (New Member)
Posts Per Day 1.004

Well, it doesn't sound good.

I suppose its too late for most of us to unplug from the Matrix.

Interesting,

I did a quick search of the "gshort.click" thing and found this. Seems it's very popular on outdoor related forums. Now to find out if it really is a 1x1 data gathering device.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gshort.click&t=ffsb&ia=web

Geno

Geno,

got this off Google:

I'm betting the NRA

I'm the dude that posted that in the other thread. Since I'm basically a
no-post count user I understand anyone's skepticism, but figured I'd
share what I knew. Please check things for yourself if you doubt them.

I've been researching this group for the past few weeks after they
started saturating another forum I use (ar15.com specifically) with
literally hundreds of postings in early March. They caused some serious
problems there and a group of IT savvy folks worked to fix the issue,
and I'm sharing the results here.

This group has been active for a LONG time. I've found links clear back to
2010 and possible even 2008. It's not at all clear why they're doing it, but
it may be conventional spam (the tracking pixel site sometimes will redirect
pixel to amazon products, making them look more popular.) However they've
also used accounts on other forums to post anti-gun and anti-Trump
comments. Nothing seems to be off limits, as they were dumping this stuff
into prayer request threads.

They really stepped up the volume starting in March, almost all on gun/outdoor
forums -- I'm currently aware of more than 40 different forums they're doing this
on. They do post in some political and sports forums as well. They appear to
be based out of indonesia based on the terms they use. The software on the
gshort.click server is called "Po.st" and sold by a company named RhythmOne
(previously called RadiumOne) and the software is specifically designed to
gather information on forum users based on RhythmOne's marketing materials
for Po.st.

Ownership of the gshort.click domain is hidden, as the other domains they used
has been (with one exception.) The founder of RadiumOne/RhythmOne has
some suspicious ties I won't go into, but feel free to look them up. It's a deep rabbit
hole. Since we don't know who owns the domain, they may just be a supplier to
whoever is doing this so I wouldn't draw any conclusions from that alone.

To cut to the chase, the problem has been solved on several forums by
blacklisting any links to gshort.click. They have a long list of other domains
in the past so I'm sure they will change it, but if they can't post that link it
stops them cold and the will stop posting (but they will continue to create
accounts, which is why some of these users have 2-4 year old accounts.)

Happy to answer any questions I can, though for some I may need to answer via PM.

To a non-techy - what is the bottom line here? Don't understand the concern.

It's the Jews

The simple, local problem:

Fake users putting up fake posts and wasting the time of the people who answer them (because the OPs don't care about the question they asked and didn't even write them.) Also wasting moderator's time because they spam wildly off-topic posts everywhere.

So that's annoying.

The bigger, broader problem:

They're using this to spy on you, and the purpose of that spying could be as "innocent" as selling you things or as nefarious as connecting your account to your real-life identity (e.g. "unmasking") for political purposes.

They're also creating "sleeper" accounts they they may then reactivate years later to give the impression that real, long-time users have a particular opinion.

In the end everyone is better off if whoever this is doesn't get to place their tracking pixels into the forums they target.

Look at how easy it is to get ,people interested in AR's to follow the link.. You are on a hunting, ar 15, forum. You ,more than likely, own ar's. Now you are on a list with, an email
So now they have your info. To sell to Co's that sell firearms? To sell to political groups? Would be interesting to know who and what they really do?

The same exact post, " I’m gonna try going basic on squirrels", word for word was made on 4/01/2018 at RIMFIRECENTRAL.com but instead of the screen name of teguh0655 it's posted using the screen name of OUToftheWOODS showing they registered there in March of 2017 and have a total post count of 46 so far. : http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1099938