<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Hi!</span><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The IP was <span class="" style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;">217.61.58.23, which reverses back to </span><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;">host23-58-61-217.serverdedicati.aruba.it. So a virtual machine at </span><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11px;"><a href="https://serverdedicati.aruba.it" class="">https://serverdedicati.aruba.it</a></span></font></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hundreds, if not thousands of fake spots.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">73</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Simon, S53ZO</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">S50DXS sysop</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2 Nov 2021, at 08:14, Danilo Brelih via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" class="">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I was informed of a similar happening
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">BTW, human stupidity has no limits!</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi All</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Apparently,
someone has been having fun in the cluster network by faking
self spots.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The concern is
that self spotting will get you tossed out of a contest and
someone is having fun spoofing these. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Others are
reporting similar on the CQCW reflector.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I thought I
would share part of what is being discovered. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mike va3mw</div>
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