[Dxspider-support] CQWW Self Spotting - spoofing

[Simon Ravnič]

Hi!

The IP was 217.61.58.23, which reverses back to host23-58-61-217.serverdedicati.aruba.it. So a virtual machine at https://serverdedicati.aruba.it <https://serverdedicati.aruba.it/>

Hundreds, if not thousands of fake spots.

73
Simon, S53ZO
S50DXS sysop

> On 2 Nov 2021, at 08:14, Danilo Brelih via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> I was informed of a similar happening in recent days.
> Someone is set up a robot that spots a station "x" minutes after the "live" spot with same frequency and callsign. He spot it however with another random sign that appeared among cluster users but he change cluster origin. It will be interesting to look deeper at the spotter IP.
> 
> BTW, human stupidity has no limits!
> 
> 73 Dan S50U
> 
> 
>> Hi All
>> 
>> Apparently, someone has been having fun in the cluster network by faking self spots.
>> 
>> In the 2 with my callsign on them, I was running unassisted in this contest.    These are not automated search and pounce spots that N1MM can produce.  
>> 
>> The concern is that self spotting will get you tossed out of a contest and someone is having fun spoofing these.  
>> 
>> Others are reporting similar on the CQCW reflector.
>> 
>> I thought I would share part of what is being discovered.  
>> 
>> Mike va3mw
>> 
>> 
>> VA3MW-7>
>>  21203.1  K3LR        31-Oct-2021 2351Z                                <K3LR>
>>   1863.0  K3LR        31-Oct-2021 2342Z                               <VE3RZ>
>>   3802.2  K3LR        31-Oct-2021 2341Z  QSX 3618.00                  <VE3RZ>
>>   7129.6  K3LR        31-Oct-2021 2334Z                                <N2NI>
>>   3802.0  K3LR        31-Oct-2021 2319Z  QSX 3621.00 TU CQWW Test     <VA2QR>
>>   7135.0  K3LR        31-Oct-2021 2257Z                              <VA2XMP>
>>   1867.2  K3LR        31-Oct-2021 2248Z  lonely LSB                    <WX3B>
>>   1867.2  K3LR        31-Oct-2021 2239Z  LSB                           <K1RH>
>>   1867.2  K3LR        31-Oct-2021 2236Z  LSB                           <KU2C>
>>  14150.9  K3LR        31-Oct-2021 2224Z                               <WT8WV>
>> 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>
>> VA3MW-7>
>> 
>> 
>> 
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