A way to increase your cache count

maccamob · Post by **maccamob** » 06 September 03 8:50 pm

Have a look at this log for Sep 6th:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... x?ID=89600

Follow up to his profile and look at all the TBs and caches he has 'found', and then look at a selection of each, particularly the most recent page. Sure gets around doesn't he?

New York one day, Melbourne the next.

And all just to log a TB he's never actually seen 'in the flesh'.

Many of his recent TB and cache logs seem to follow the same pattern, too. Oh well. Whatever gives you pleasure.

hardunits · Post by **hardunits** » 06 September 03 9:22 pm

They did the same thing in one of my caches and tried to claim it was an accident. I just deleted the log.

embi · Post by **embi** » 07 September 03 12:11 am

i'm not too happy about that....is he getting the tb number somehow?

any help i can get so that i can remove him would be appreciated....its not on.

embi

dcr · Post by **dcr** » 07 September 03 12:46 am

embi wrote:...is he getting the tb number somehow?

After looking through a few of the TBs that he has logged, the TB number is listed somewhere in the log file. For TRAVIS TROUT it is listed in the log for Saturday, August 09, 2003. Hmmmm

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cheers Darren

Team Stargazer · Post by **Team Stargazer** » 07 September 03 12:48 am

WOW, 647 caches found since he joined on Friday, September 06, 2002. That's just 12 months ago today!

Gee... I hope we at 'Team Stargazer' can just get to 50 caches in our first year to earn our first 'half star'

maccamob · Post by **maccamob** » 07 September 03 1:04 am

If you look at the entry here ( http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... c7c33caead ) for 28th July it looks like he just experiments with different numbers. I've seen a couple like this - claimed to be an error ("must have written numbers down wrong") but left there just the same!

hardunits · Post by **hardunits** » 07 September 03 1:15 am

Yep I think he just tries random numbers. If he logs your cache delete the log. I don't get it. I do Geocaching because I enjoy doing it! Defeats the purpose to claim wha you have not done.

riblit · Post by **riblit** » 07 September 03 10:15 am

embi wrote:

any help i can get so that i can remove him would be appreciated....its not on. embi

He is only fooling himself (and a few yanks of you read some cache logs)<br>
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... 9281a9deb8 makes interesting reading. He logged a lost TB.<br>
You could try downloading a loc file of his recent 'finds', convert to ozi waypoint and plot on a map of the USA. He would need a private jet to move around like he expects us to believe.

SNIFTER · Post by **SNIFTER** » 07 September 03 5:06 pm

This is not just an Embi Job. This is a job for the USA people like Jeremy etc.

Slider & Smurf · Post by **Slider & Smurf** » 07 September 03 10:30 pm

If you accidently log a find on the wrong cache or TB, the average honest person would delete the log and go looking for the correct spot ... doesn't appear to be the case here. Otherwise, I want the job that he's got - he gets to travel a hell of a lot more than we do!! Sic 'em, Embi

Gunn Parker · Post by **Gunn Parker** » 07 September 03 10:51 pm

I was checking out travel bugs from the link on the other page, and he has logged another bug today and replaced it back into the same cache.

alex · Post by **alex** » 07 September 03 11:50 pm

He "accidently" logged my 'Going Geocentric' TB in Adelaide on 1Sep03!

SNIFTER · Post by **SNIFTER** » 08 September 03 3:47 pm

I haven't had a look at the TB's concerned but is it possible that he is reading the TB # from off the pics. I know I have seen some pics and the number is clearly visible.

maccamob · Post by **maccamob** » 08 September 03 5:07 pm

He certainly gets some numbers that way, but others he's getting by trial and error. Easy enough to do - just go to the 'Track Travel Bugs' page, type in some numbers in the range of known bugs until you find one that is valid (it is usually very quick), then you know the number of that bug and where it is. Simple (but pointless) then to log it and the cache it's in. <br>He's attracted a bit of notoriety in the US as well, not just with bogus cache and TB finds, but with bogus benchmark finds as well. See http://ubbx.groundspeak.com/6/ubb.x?a=t ... m=16860738 for example

Slider & Smurf · Post by **Slider & Smurf** » 08 September 03 6:51 pm

alex wrote:He "accidently" logged my 'Going Geocentric' TB in Adelaide on 1Sep03!

Good to see his log was "accidently" deleted ... if he's going to log bogus finds, you'd think he'd at least stick to the same continent!!

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A way to increase your cache count

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