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HELP! IDENTITY THEFT!

Dave_4
Dave_4 Member Posts: 1,405
in THE MAIN WALL
It didn't happen this time, so maybe it was a glitch that got fixed, but . . .

why were posts I made assigned other person's login and email addresses?

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  • Norm Harvey
    Norm Harvey Member Posts: 684


    What are the posts you made that were assigned different info?

    That info may be helpfull to the system administrators trying to find out what happened.

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  • Brad White
    Brad White Member Posts: 2,399
    Cookies and Cheap Drama

    This has happened before. The explanation had to do if someone sent you a URL or vice versa, I forget. When that happens your posts take on that person's identity.

    Odd, I know, but it happened to me too. Just change your sign in information back before you send. I think that was the fix.

    I never saw any such posts- As Norm suggests, where are they?

    I do not think anyone deliberately would want to be you ;)
    "If you do not know the answer, say, "I do not know the answer", and you will be correct!"



    -Ernie White, my Dad
  • Dave_4
    Dave_4 Member Posts: 1,405
    How should I take that?

    No one would want to be me? Why not? ;-)

    What I have been noticing is that my email has been getting, just for the past week or so, a lot of Wall replies, to threads I have never visited.

    Furthermore, I was doing posts, with the forum's software inserting someone else's name and email address in the message header spaces where mine should be. I made certain to make corrections, but it is that stuff that made me suspect glitches.
  • ME_17
    ME_17 Member Posts: 2
    Crush your cookies...

    No, not toss your cookies. Well, OK, I guess it would be toss your cookies. The Wall reads the cookies in your cookie file. Some times and somehow, they get corrupted. When that happens, you take on a new name. Clear out your cookies and you'll return to normal programming...

    Speaking of which, time to get back to 0's and 1's.

    TTFN

    ME
  • chris_86
    chris_86 Member Posts: 53
    Ditto,...

    I have noticed this as well, as well as a few posts that were not mine!
  • Bernie Riddle_2
    Bernie Riddle_2 Member Posts: 178


    "WOW" could there be another BRAD WHITE out there
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0
    Cookie issues...

    ... can arise here as a result of searching. Recently when unable to find something using the Wall's Search function, I went to Google and performed an advanced search in the domain forums.invision.net. When the desired match was clicked on, two things happened. First, font type and size changed. Also, when I tried to reply, I morphed into whoever it was that had posted the found item. A complete invision.net cookie dump fixed that.

    The negative side effect of deleting invision.net cookies is that all threads "bookmarked" here -- with red dots -- disappear. It's probably safer to save threads as IE Favorites or Mozilla Bookmarks or equivalent.
  • Brad White
    Brad White Member Posts: 2,399
    I suppose

    but hope not....Hawaiian pan flute players and Water Heaters are not me. :)

    But I do post under my own name and address....
    "If you do not know the answer, say, "I do not know the answer", and you will be correct!"



    -Ernie White, my Dad
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