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worble · 2020-07-02 12:18:12+00:00

It's a little confusing to see 2 accounts, with very different usernames (epi0Bauqu and yegg), that appear to be posting as Gabriel Weinberg . Are these both legitimate? And if they are, what's the reason for two of them?

aspenmayer | karma 4337 | avg karma 1.67 · | 2021-11-04 23:43:33

The one posting may not be the legitimate owner of the account?

ecmascript | karma 883 | avg karma 1.12 · | 2023-11-03 11:30:53

It's probably his other account.

desigooner | karma 2194 | avg karma 4.03 · | 2010-09-09 08:42:48

Zach, do you have 2 ids? zachinglis and zach-inglis?

because if not, someone's trying to masquerade as you ..

if you do, please stick to using 1 id vs. using a throw away account just to comment.

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kaiken1987 | karma 38 | avg karma 2.24 · | 2023-06-12 13:58:13

Oh man that's a username I have seen in a log time. Wasn't there a theory that they were multiple people using a single account?

viraptor | karma 41139 | avg karma 2.79 · | 2022-09-25 16:33:49

There's another account :-)

css | karma 4114 | avg karma 10.66 · | 2018-08-07 20:50:38

This article is talking about unverified impostor accounts. This thread had _verified_ accounts that changed their name which is even more insidious.

shiflett | karma 118 | avg karma 6.94 · | 2014-04-16 12:24:34

FWIW, neither of those accounts are the original @kathleen.

tehwebguy | karma 7795 | avg karma 3.53 · | 2013-05-24 17:42:52+00:00

It's possible that it looks like this is a duplicate account to them, I've seen that happen before.

pbhjpbhj | karma 20396 | avg karma 1.24 · | 2012-02-14 16:29:59+00:00

What happened here? Double account-ing? Seems a strange post to want to deceive on if that is the case.

konspence | karma 255 | avg karma 2.83 · | 2016-12-27 00:47:49

This wouldn't be reliable, it's very plausible it's somebody else's account being used.

nsagent | karma 793 | avg karma 4.81 · | 2024-01-12 18:12:28

And they are both new accounts.

giantg2 | karma 18870 | avg karma 1.42 · | 2023-02-02 11:51:58

This sounds like notch556. Is there a reason you're using a different name? Did your previous account get banned by @dang?

TACIXAT | karma 90 | avg karma 0.09 · | 2020-11-17 08:39:07

Meta, is the author using multiple accounts in this thread? MalwareGuy, PhantomHacker, MisterKeylogger, TheRansomGerman

blackysky | karma 88 | avg karma 2.1 · | 2012-05-08 20:07:48+00:00

I don't think those are legit accounts because you can clearly see pattern between passwords usernames and e-mails.....

base | karma 901 | avg karma 5.03 · | 2010-11-01 23:02:46

maybe it's not his real account

1123581321 | karma 7823 | avg karma 1.82 · | 2021-08-15 18:55:40

Best to take a look at the submitting usernames before making that assertion. There’s a lot of variety for this domain, mostly from established accounts. It’s a fairly popular website.

greglindahl | karma 9606 | avg karma 2.0 · | 2018-12-31 06:26:23+00:00

Did you look at the usernames? Different users.

gallamine | karma 704 | avg karma 2.33 · | 2015-05-01 13:26:26+00:00

I think there's a "WhoIsHiring" official user and and "__WhoIsHiring" fake user.

kenjackson | karma 20413 | avg karma 3.83 · | 2016-02-02 20:39:48

Thanks. I didn't see that other account.