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1. Is it possible that there are two posters with VERY similar names?

Reply to gristy (Original post)

Sat Aug 19, 2023, 11:15 AM

Aug 2023

I am thinking of the scam where a scammer spoofs a website url by using an alternate character for one letter, that the target of the attack may not notice.

(Not that this would necessarily be intentional here. But I have one person on my ignore list from long ago, that has a weird spelling of their username that would lend itself to this situation.)

But anyway, the way you could check is by clicking on each profile and see if they are exactly the same, down to number of posts, etc.

Sorry if you already thought of this, just mentioning in case you hadn't.