Posted on Sep 20, 2015
How does one report a potential impersonator of a high profile official on this site? Possible Fishing.
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I was perusing one of the discussions and reading comments. I noticed what looked like a fishing spam type of comment as a reply to an individual. The comment was coming from someone who is a General officer. I will not call them out in the off chance I could be wrong. However, looking at said persons profile stuff does not make sense. First the person in real life is a retired Maj Gen. The rank listed in their profile is full O-10 General of the 4 Star variety. The person is using a common picture that is available on Google Images. Lastly the said person has their military occupation listed as Pilot. According to the GO's official bio the occupation was space systems and acquisitions.
All of these things are sort of setting off alarm bells that there maybe an attempt to fish for info. It seems uncharacteristic for someone, especially a GO to solicit a job prospect in the private industry to someone in a public forum in an unrelated post. Then all of the other stuff does not make sense either.
All of these things are sort of setting off alarm bells that there maybe an attempt to fish for info. It seems uncharacteristic for someone, especially a GO to solicit a job prospect in the private industry to someone in a public forum in an unrelated post. Then all of the other stuff does not make sense either.
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Lt Col (Join to see) You need to report the information via message to SSG Carlos Madden ASAP. Thanks
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This sounds like it would interest the CEO LTC Yinon Weiss. He probably has a preferred POC for it.
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Lt Col (Join to see)
Ok test I see that one. Thanks.
As for ducks in row. All I can do is report my observations on what seems off in the profile based off official biography as well as the odd recruitment solicitation.
As for ducks in row. All I can do is report my observations on what seems off in the profile based off official biography as well as the odd recruitment solicitation.
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I think email RP not ask in an open post. Probably not a lot of GO Pilots on here. I'm sure we can all figure out who you are talking about. If you are wrong some of us will only remember this.
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Lt Col (Join to see)
Agreed, but if you read something to the effect of...
"Hello friend
I am so happy to meet you. I see you very talented. I have job for you as manager in my company. Please let me know if you are interested."
So if you saw that in an unrelated post, hopefully that would look out of place. If you saw the poster is supposedly a 4 star general that would probably raise your eyebrows a little. Then when you look at their profile out of curiosity and then compare it to an official bio and find out that every detail is incorrect from the rank, to the AFSC, down to their service dates, that would not make sense either.
So, what is going on here? Well it could be innocent mistakes, sure it happens. The entire profile being wrong though from a GO! It does not add up.
Why did it peek my interest and why did I make it public? Well there is a cyber adversary out there. It has been done before in other online source. Where someone took public available information of a high ranking officer to impersonate them to solicit info. I made it public to try to raise some awareness that there maybe an intruder in our midst that could be up to no good. That people need to tread with caution stuff that does not make sense. That is why I sounded off on here.
"Hello friend
I am so happy to meet you. I see you very talented. I have job for you as manager in my company. Please let me know if you are interested."
So if you saw that in an unrelated post, hopefully that would look out of place. If you saw the poster is supposedly a 4 star general that would probably raise your eyebrows a little. Then when you look at their profile out of curiosity and then compare it to an official bio and find out that every detail is incorrect from the rank, to the AFSC, down to their service dates, that would not make sense either.
So, what is going on here? Well it could be innocent mistakes, sure it happens. The entire profile being wrong though from a GO! It does not add up.
Why did it peek my interest and why did I make it public? Well there is a cyber adversary out there. It has been done before in other online source. Where someone took public available information of a high ranking officer to impersonate them to solicit info. I made it public to try to raise some awareness that there maybe an intruder in our midst that could be up to no good. That people need to tread with caution stuff that does not make sense. That is why I sounded off on here.
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Lt Col (Join to see) Sir. If that is exactly the way it was written I'd almost say we have a Nigerian prince in our midst wantin to transfer some money..lol
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SFC Joseph Weber
Lt Col (Join to see) I looked at it. Does seem a bit odd. I think you may be right. There are a number of GO profiles that are obvious fakes. RP should check them all.
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