Quote Originally Posted by SOL BADGUY View Post
I didnt think he wanted my exact address, sheesh, hes not asking for your social security number.

You guys need to calm down. If yorue ever interviewed by press people they ask for very basic broad info and helps with breaking down population interests with local news people.
With a full name and town you can pretty much look up addresses using the yellow pages website, unless you have a dirt common last name. If you have really rare stuff or a large valuable collection you'd be worried about break ins.

True about legitimate press interviews, but usually legit reporters give more detailed information about themselves before asking for an interview. Usually stating where they work or who they're representing, it's the difference between accepting an interview from a major newspaper or from a trash tabloid. This guy didn't give any credentials or detailed information in his first post, how could anyone be sure he was a real reporter in the first place? His first post gave the impression that he was a professional journalist working full time for a professional gaming magazine, but later we found out he's a student in school working to become a journalist, working on a class assignment that might have a slight chance to be published. I'm not sure why he wasn't just open about this in his first post, it's not like he was on this forum beforehand and was basically a stranger to us.


It's like The Name Game type scam that was posted on various forums a few years ago. It basically asked a bunch of personal questions that would seem harmless but would be used for identity theft.

1.YOUR REAL NAME:
2.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother and fathers middle names):
3.NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother’s dad, father’s dad):
4.STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name):
5.DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal):
6.SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, town where you were born):
7.SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd fav color, fav drink, add “THE” to the beginning):
8.FLY NAME: (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name):
9.STREET NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie):
10.ROCK STAR NAME (pet’s name and street where you live):
11.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle):
12.YOUR IRAQI NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, first two letters of your middle name, last two letters of your first name then last three letters of your last name):
13.YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one of your pets):
14.GIGOLO NAME: (name of your fav perfume/cologne, fav candy):
15.PORN NAME: (first pet, and mothers maiden name):