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Offline daniel60sd

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isp/ scam concerns
« on: October 04, 2019, 10:07:52 AM »
 I have been chatting to a lady, I checked the ip address and found a couple of bad reports stating that the ip address had been used in conjunction with spam/ voip fraud /phising. This information completely contradicts the video calls that I have with this lady face to face. Any further help/ advice / information would be much appreciated.

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Re: isp/ scam concerns
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2019, 12:56:29 PM »
Where is she and the IP located?
Read a trip report from North Korea >>here<< - Read a trip report from South Korea, China and Hong Kong >>here<<

Look what the American media makes some people believe:
Putin often threatens to strike US with nuclear weapons.

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Re: isp/ scam concerns
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2019, 01:25:09 PM »
When you say 'chatting', what exactly do you mean? If you are using live chat then the service you are using wouldn't reveal a location-based upon IP address.

Email might, but that's not a great indicator either because thousands of people using the same service are bound to be sharing the same or very similar IP address.

In the end, your choices are going to depend upon the person and your relationship with them. All you have to do is be sensible and not do the stupid stuff that too many men still insist on doing. Don't do the stupid stuff and there's not much can go wrong. You are most unlikely to lose a kidney.
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Re: isp/ scam concerns
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2019, 07:25:10 PM »

Paranoia will destroya. If you video chat and talk to the woman on the phone often and she gives you no reason to believe she's a bad person, don't go believing she's a bad person.
Over 220 generals and admirals say we are in a fight for our survival like no other time since 1776. If you want to stop the war in Ukraine, fix elections, stop medical tyranny and forced vaccinations, lower inflation and make America and the world a better place, get Trump back into power. The Democrats and Republicans have shown they can't do the job. They are good at robbing us and getting people killed in non stop wars.