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I Can't Help Anybody Who Doesn't Want To Be Helped

There was a very young girl (12-13) who posts her family members picture in her profile. She is a pretty girl, so there were many men view her profile and view all the pictures that she posts about her and her members in the family. She has her sisters, her mom, and her friends in her pictures, and there are some pictures that many perverts compliment her and her acquaintances. What makes me shocked the most that in the posts that she posted, there are many men comment and exploit her pictures that including her acquaintances or family members to other men, and they share to each other. I was so worried about her and message her right away. I was trying to help her to be aware and recognize what she does in her profile and be careful of perverts around here and be cautious for her safety. But then she blocked me. And I was speechless. I realize that there is something wrong with her, and I doubt her that there might be something fishy behind that. This girl gives me negative vibes.

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EnigmaticGeek · 61-69, M

She could also have been a LEA (Law Enforcement Agency) posing as a child to entrap people. If that is the case, it did you a favor by blocking you.

SW-User

@EnigmaticGeek If she could have been a LEA, then why she did not tell me instead of blocking me? There is nothing wrong with doing a good thing, so why she has to hide it?

But thankfully, her account was suspended thanks to my report. I'm happy more than ever. 😌

EnigmaticGeek · 61-69, M

@SW-User If it is an LEA, it would be an undercover operation.

SW-User

@EnigmaticGeek If so, then why SW have to suspend that account? That LEA must let the SW admin know their purpose (secretly) so that the SW admin will not suspend them because the SW admin knows that they are here for a good purpose.

EnigmaticGeek · 61-69, M

@SW-User Not necessarily. If it was an LEA, they most likely have multiple profiles. To appear as genuine underage persons, they can;t interfere with the site admins, because an actual underage person wouldn't be able to, either.

SW-User

@EnigmaticGeek They can tell the SW admin and let the admin know that they are pretending to be an underage person. Furthermore, there are two types of suspenders; the first type is once they get suspended, they can still create another account; the second type is once they get suspended, they will not be allowed to create another account or so. It depends on what type of illegal activities they have been committed to. If their illegal activities related to sexual abuse or fake account, they will be suspended and will not allow creating another account.

EnigmaticGeek · 61-69, M

@SW-User Only if SW can detect that it's the same person creating the other accounts. There are technical ways to prevent any such detection by SW that could be successfully be used by anyone who isn't a paying member.

SW-User

@EnigmaticGeek We use our technologies machine to use social media such as iPhone, laptop, iPad. Once we use these technologies, we have to create our account for it, and then it will connect to any other accounts on any social media. And if our account on social media was suspended in a way that we can never create another account, then the website that suspended us can detect the account of our iPhone, laptop, iPad so that they can prevent us from coming back.

If there are technical ways to prevent any such detection by SW that could be successfully be used by anyone, then what is it? How?

EnigmaticGeek · 61-69, M

@SW-User I'm not going to post the details publicly on here for obvious reasons. They are all documented online and in numerous technology books and publications.

I am a computer programmer, and I used to actually operate a small part of the Internet in my hometown from 1998 - 2010. That's how I know the limitations of authenticating non-paying users of any website.

SW-User

@EnigmaticGeek You can share with me that information in a private message.

EnigmaticGeek · 61-69, M

@SW-User Search...

website user identity verification

...for starters. In order to circumvent identity verification, you will first have to know how identities are verified, and the limitations of the methods used. It is a non-trivial body of knowledge. The total amount of knowledge you'd need to even circumvent SW's free account checks would easily fill a book.

The fact that any of your social media accounts know about any of your other accounts makes it easy for SW. It also makes stealing your identity easier for cyberthieves.

LEAs would never tie their own social media accounts, their multiple email addresses, their multiple IP addresses, their multiple VMs, multiple browser profiles, or anything else that would be visible to the SW website if they wanted to covertly maintain multiple accounts.

SW-User

@EnigmaticGeek Interesting. I have a question; for example, if LEA entraps the bad person on social media (a private website perhaps), but that person was from another country, what can they do about it?

EnigmaticGeek · 61-69, M

@SW-User Depends on the MLAT Treaty between the countries involved.

SW-User

@EnigmaticGeek And depends on if the law from that country accepts to capture the bad person on social media. I know there are some countries that don't care about that much.

I'm confused. Why would an LEA have to join into a private website in order to entrap bad people but blocking good people? If that girl didn't want my help, then why she didn't choose to ignore me (because it was an undercover operation) instead of blocking me? Why she has to block me when she knows that I'm not a bad person? If that person can aware that I'm an innocent person and my intention is for a good reason, why they have to hide from me?

The question is, why is it necessary to block people when you know that they did not do anything harmful to you?

EnigmaticGeek · 61-69, M

If it was an actual LEA profile, they most likely blocked you when they realized that you weren't anyone whom they were seeking.

If they hadn't blocked you and had you continued to contact that profile no matter how well intentioned you are, the time they spent dealing with you would be effectively wasted, which would technically mean that you were interfering in an ongoing LEA operation.

All clandestine ops do this, from local police, all the way to the CIA. None of them are ever going to admit who they are or what they do. Doing so may even be illegal for them, and it most definitely is for CIA operatives.

SW-User

@EnigmaticGeek Well, thank you for sharing this with me. I really appreciate it. We would never know who they are and what they do. So, our hypothesis is just a hypothesis.

EnigmaticGeek · 61-69, M

@SW-User You're welcome.

That's the way they want and need for it to be in order to maintain their cover--assuming it was an LEA profile. We truly will never know.