Quick question about pseudo Gmail setup
[QUOTE=KidFarian;6879744]I recently learned to send text through Google Voice via email instead of the app. Use a pseudo Gmail account for Google Voice and once it is set up, delete the app and send emails to communicate with and set up appointments. You may have to keep the app if the provider wants to call you before meeting them, so keep that in mind. Good luck and stay safe.[/QUOTE]I'm not the most tech-savvy nerd in the room, but neither am I a Luddite. Google seems to have an uncanny ability to figure out who you are, while trying to setup a dummy account, even if you take steps to prevent that from happening.
Just curious as to how you successfully navigated that particular problem (TIA).
Have you ever been successful in setting up an anonymous Gmail account?
[QUOTE=FarFarAway;6881640]I don't really use google on the web in my personal life. However, they are the vendor to my large organization for work servers, etc. I have never had any suspicion that google figured out who I am.
I have an Android personal cell phone as well as an Android burner that I use GV on. I have no doubt that google could figure out some key info about me, based on the proximity of my phones at times, but I make sure never never to have my burner on at my home (and luckily, my house is a cell dead zone, so I can only get service on my personal cell by using Wi-Fi.
I am pretty picky about the browsers I use to access Google in my sugar life. I am preferring the Brave browser at the moment, I run it only in stealth mode, and I periodically make sure that I clear out the history if there is one (there isn't supposed to be if I have been perfect at running in stealth). I also access a server at my work through a VPN most of the time I use that Browser at home.[/QUOTE]That was the question I addressed to the OP. If anyone has been able to do so, I'd love to hear about the steps they took.
Not sure I'm correctly following the steps
[QUOTE=FarFarAway;6883278]That is exactly what I have. I bought a TracFone smartphone in Walmart w / cash. I made up an email, or perhaps I allowed Android to make it up based on what I entered. The only things I have ever fed TracFone and Android / Google is that sugar name. There is no way to trace that back to me. When I need to buy minutes or GBs, I use cash to buy a TracFone card and enter that PIN on their website. I have also on some occasions used prepaid debit cards to add in a GB of web access through the TracFone website. I enter into that website, or the Google voice page, through a VPN into a large organization's server. And I spoof my machine I'd.
Google may be able to use my behaviors and other places and devices I have repeatedly been around to figure out who I am, but I don't think they have any motivation to do so, and I don't see how that info could get me into trouble.[/QUOTE]Here's my understanding of what you posted:
1. You bought a burner for cash. That's clear enough. Where and how did you activate the phone? Did you need to use a laptop or desktop in the process, or was it completely on the phone itself?
2. You created an email account (Gmail, I assume). And I'm also assuming the TracPhone was the device used to create the account. Questions: Did you disable location services? We're you at a location, while creating the account, that isn't associated with other devices Google recognizes as you? Did you use a VPN while creating the account? Did you sign up on the website or using an app? Specifics are key, and there may be others that are relevant that I didn't think to ask about.
3. What kind of two-factor authentication did you use to set up the account? A text to the burner, or something else? Have you needed to use the 2-FA since you created the account?
4. You mentioned a "large organization server" + VPN. Is that something that can be easily replicated by others, or is it unique to your situation? If a regular monger (who doesn't have access to such an organization) wanted to replicate your process, how would they do it?
5. You said that you spoof the identification of your machine. Are you talking about your TracPhone, or something else? Please explain because, at first reading, it's unclear if that's something that can be easily replicated.
Apologies for all the questions. But it's often the case that someone who has done something can leave gaps when explaining it to others. That's because, once you've done something, some of the steps seem obvious or self-evident. But to others those steps might not be so clear.
So, essentially not replicable for anyone without your specific circumstances.
[QUOTE=FarFarAway;6884557]I didn't have to 'activate' anything. I bought a TracFone. It came working once I fired it up. To set up the phone, I am not 100%, this was many years ago, and I've done it the same way all this time. You can go to the TracFone website on a browser and do a lot of the account functions. I didn't do anything out of the ordinary that I recall, including disable location service. I don't see why it would matter anyway. I probably set up the account while on the phone, not while on a web page. It wasn't until much later in my use of the phone and Google Voice that I realized I could access messages on the web. The burner does not have VPN, so no I did not use a VPN when creating the account. There was no 2 FA then, and there isn't now. Not on the phone, not on the google page I use.
I work with a group that has over 20000 employees. If you work for a big corporation, I am sure they have more. If you VPN into their server, that sea of people provides a modicum of anonymity I'd guess. I am no techie however. If you don't work for a big company, SOL. Figure it out yourself.
I will switch the MAC I'd periodically on the laptop I use to access websites, including google's. I never do anything different w / the phone. I downloaded an app to switch the MAC I'd on my Apple laptop. It is called WiFiSpoof. Anyone can use it.
There is no warranty on anything I have said. This is what I did, to the best of my recollection. Some of it was done years ago. Since then, I also got a new phone and had a mom and pop cell phone shop xfer the sim card to a new phone w / more memory. I recommend at least 12 MB. If that ain't good enough for you, good luck.[/QUOTE]Namely, access to the anonymizing process of using a 20,000 person organization to lose oneself in the crowd, aided by a VPN and MAC address changer.
Thanks for clearing that up.
So I guess I'll repeat the question I addressed to the OP (KidFarian) since his post specifically said that he set up his Gmail account recently, rather than years ago. Hopefully his recollection will be clear and it's also to be hoped that his methodology will be applicable to a wider cross-section of mongers.
Indy Providers should practice OPSEC
This thread had provided many tips and methods for customers to practice OPSEC. For their sake local providers should practice a bit too.
This week I reached out to a Craigslist ad that was reported on here to provide extra services. We set up an appointment and she provided a street address so I Googled it before visiting. The address turns up as a $1 million townhome in Vienna (Tysons) and the resident is listed as a woman with a Vietnamese / American name. Figuring it's safe I go to the appointment but the visit was not all I had hoped for. Mind you a HJ and boob play was provided and a very senior board member says 15 years ago she was giving massages with BLS HJ's but I was not impressed.
After the visit, and seeing her face body and dog, I googled her name and a trove of personal info came up; like 6 Facebook accounts, Insta, wedding photos, friends and more. She has a work history in Vietnamese nail salons going back to 2006, and wedding photos from 2018 to a very rich international electronics company CEO who also breeds, trains, and races thoroughbred horses. I guess that marriage ended (nice looks and big tits can only take you so far when you are over 60) and now she is doing what she knows best (jerking dicks while they play with her tits and ass for $60).
The point is her careless Social Media access could cause a lot of embarrassment with her Hi So Vietnamese friends she posts about on Facebook if they found out how she earns her money now.
On a side note this is the third provider I have seen in NOVA who started out as a sex worker and ended up marring a very successful multimillionaire (I guess everyone needs good sex just look at the Philly Eagles owner sitting in the owners' box) only to leave the marriage and return to cheap sex work.
Everyone should practice good OPSEC
[QUOTE=FakeName3;6920800]This thread had provided many tips and methods for customers to practice OPSEC. For their sake local providers should practice a bit too.
This week I reached out to a Craigslist ad that was reported on here to provide extra services. We set up an appointment and she provided a street address so I Googled it before visiting. The address turns up as a $1 million townhome in Vienna (Tysons) and the resident is listed as a woman with a Vietnamese / American name. Figuring it's safe I go to the appointment but the visit was not all I had hoped for. Mind you a HJ and boob play was provided and a very senior board member says 15 years ago she was giving massages with BLS HJ's but I was not impressed.
After the visit, and seeing her face body and dog, I googled her name and a trove of personal info came up; like 6 Facebook accounts, Insta, wedding photos, friends and more. She has a work history in Vietnamese nail salons going back to 2006, and wedding photos from 2018 to a very rich international electronics company CEO who also breeds, trains, and races thoroughbred horses. I guess that marriage ended (nice looks and big tits can only take you so far when you are over 60) and now she is doing what she knows best (jerking dicks while they play with her tits and ass for $60)..[/QUOTE]Everyone needs good sex. Ladies, especially sex workers who marry rich (typically older) dudes, they trade the sex for security and eventually wish for more. They may still be married, the husband may be in on it, or they divorced and she got the house and the tax bill, thus the return to old ways.
We all need intimacy. As a 60 year old, she has not idea how to protect herself digitally. Consider showing her how to protect herself, you may make a new friend and a "deeper" relationship.