I have a Macbook Pro on CL and got this email tonight. What do you make of it. Seems to be a strange but harmless request.

"can you please take a picture of the Mac Book pro with a piece of paper next to it that says freebiejeebies

i just need to see your real and you really have the it no picture no reply"

I wonder if it has anything to do with this website: [www.freebiejeebies.co.uk]

i'd put today's date and something else on the paper, like an eBay account name if you have one.

they want to use your photo for their own purposes.

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I was just trying to win a bet that I could make a stranger write "freebiejeebies" and take a photo of it...


Potential buyer just wants to make sure it's real... maybe abbreviate to "fbjb" and a smiley face.
Did you use a stock photo, or no photo in yout listing?
I usually try to take personalized photos so it subconciously conveys a real deal, as well as include a bit of history about the item to help eliviate buyers' concerns. Relatively high ticket item merits scrutiny.


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What he said.

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Print the email from the guy, black out all of your name/email/contact info from it, but leave his in, and take a picture of that with the MBP. If he tries to re-use it, it will be clear that he requested someone else take the picture.

CL clears the EXIF data on pics posted to the service.

If you send the pic without clearing the EXIF data on it, you may be giving away a lot of info on yourself, including your address for a quick bit o' burglary while you're out to meet someone for a laptop-sale.

...and if you send it to that person, you're also giving away your email address. I hope it's a throwaway account.

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CL clears the EXIF data on pics posted to the service.

If you send the pic without clearing the EXIF data on it, you may be giving away a lot of info on yourself, including your address for a quick bit o' burglary while you're out to meet someone for a laptop-sale.

...and if you send it to that person, you're also giving away your email address. I hope it's a throwaway account.

There is no info in the EXIF data that lists your address or any other personal info. The only info EXIF data has pertains to the picture and the camera that took it. Stop trying to spread FUD.

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Chakravartin
CL clears the EXIF data on pics posted to the service.

If you send the pic without clearing the EXIF data on it, you may be giving away a lot of info on yourself, including your address for a quick bit o' burglary while you're out to meet someone for a laptop-sale.

...and if you send it to that person, you're also giving away your email address. I hope it's a throwaway account.

There is no info in the EXIF data that lists your address or any other personal info. The only info EXIF data has pertains to the picture and the camera that took it. Stop trying to spread FUD.

Not true. On GPS enabled cameras the GPS data is imbedded in the file. MIght not be in the EXIF specifically, but it is there.

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I wonder if it has anything to do with this website: [www.freebiejeebies.co.uk]

Oh, well...looks like a scam site. At least he's not trying to rob me or something worse.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/31/2012 09:58PM by richorlin.

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Chakravartin
CL clears the EXIF data on pics posted to the service.

If you send the pic without clearing the EXIF data on it, you may be giving away a lot of info on yourself, including your address for a quick bit o' burglary while you're out to meet someone for a laptop-sale.

...and if you send it to that person, you're also giving away your email address. I hope it's a throwaway account.

Also, never give anyone your phone number, or any way to contact you.

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Just give him the heebie jeebies and be done with it already.

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CL clears the EXIF data on pics posted to the service.

If you send the pic without clearing the EXIF data on it, you may be giving away a lot of info on yourself, including your address for a quick bit o' burglary while you're out to meet someone for a laptop-sale.

...and if you send it to that person, you're also giving away your email address. I hope it's a throwaway account.

There is no info in the EXIF data that lists your address or any other personal info. The only info EXIF data has pertains to the picture and the camera that took it. Stop trying to spread FUD.

Not true. On GPS enabled cameras the GPS data is imbedded in the file. MIght not be in the EXIF specifically, but it is there.

I turn the GPS, and other power-sucking features, off most of the time to conserve battery power. For a CL pic, no need for GPS data. GPS is fun to have a record of where you've been, so I tend to turn the GPS on to take a few location shots, then turn it off until the next location... but; I'm thinking next time I take pics to sell something, I'm gonna schlep it on a road trip and turn GPS on, just to give any EXIF hunters a run for their money... or better yet, figure out how to swap GPS data from other photos, and really have some fun

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edit the exif data.

[www.lemkesoft.com]
add and edit GPS do support extended GPS tags

[albumshaper.sourceforge.net]

[www.qdev.de]


[www.geosetter.de]

[www.exifpilot.com]

[www.photome.de]

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The sociologist, and historian, Adam Ferguson described the phenomenon of spontaneous order in society as the "result of human action, but not the execution of any human design".

or just take a screenshot, there is no EXIF there

Eh, just skip it. Weird requests are just that.. non serious 'buyers'. Next he'll be asking you to meet with his freight forwarder and accept a cashier's check for $1,000 more than asking price.

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Eh, just skip it. Weird requests are just that.. non serious 'buyers'. Next he'll be asking you to meet with his freight forwarder and accept a cashier's check for $1,000 more than asking price.

It's a request that might make some kind of remote sense after an initial exchange, but I agree that as a first overture- just smells like trouble-- skip.

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