[CQ-Contest] Spoofed Self spots

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

IIRC, maybe 20 years ago Dave, K1TTT did some pioneering work in 
identifying self-spotters, I think through the use of IP addresses  It 
may be that the same techniques can be used today - or maybe they can at 
least demonstrate that these were *not* self-spots. Dave?

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 11/1/2021 2:46 PM, Michael Walker wrote:
> Wow, what a surprise.  I just went and looked at my cluster and sure
> enough.
>
> I was running unassisted and I see that I spotted myself twice.
>
> This is not good and the only reason is for someone to ensure that the
> cluster logging can't be trusted.
>
> Mike va3mw
>
>
> VA3MW-7>
>    7215.1  VA3MW       31-Oct-2021 2319Z
> <VA3MW>
>    7215.1  VA3MW       31-Oct-2021 2313Z
> <WT8WV>
>    7215.1  VA3MW       31-Oct-2021 2305Z  LSB
> <N2YO>
>    7214.9  VA3MW       31-Oct-2021 2252Z  LSB
> <N4SS>
>    7215.0  VA3MW       31-Oct-2021 2249Z
>   <W3MR>
>    7215.0  VA3MW       31-Oct-2021 2244Z  LSB
> <WU9D>
>    7215.0  VA3MW       31-Oct-2021 2237Z
>   <N3GT>
>    7215.0  VA3MW       31-Oct-2021 2235Z  LSB
>   <AC3LZ>
>    7215.1  VA3MW       31-Oct-2021 2211Z
> <VA3MW>
>    7215.1  VA3MW       31-Oct-2021 2205Z
> <KE1IH>
>
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 1:39 PM Dave K2XR via CQ-Contest <
> cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:
>
>> GM contesters.  Hope you all are resting well.
>>
>> In the FRC chat room we have been discussing the abundance of apparent
>> self spots during the contest.  Many of our participants who run had
>> their callsigns spoofed and spots of themselves made. It seems to have
>> happened to enough of us that the question was posed...   'Was it just
>> FRC that was targeted, or was it all contesters? "
>>
>> Looking on this reflector as well as the 3830 reflector, it didn't take
>> long to see that it wasn't just FRC.
>>
>> http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2021-11/msg00174.html
>>
>> Curious to know who else out there was targeted.  The were about 10
>> cases in the chat room I was in this AM, and suspect it might have been
>> a huge problem.
>>
>> Is there a way for the sysops to track down the origin ?     I would
>> think so, but am not positive.
>>
>> It would be great to nail the perpetrator, and some of us are demanding
>> it if it is all possible.  Kind of ruins everything for some.
>>
>>       Dave   K2XR      Frankford Radio Club
>>
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