Diggers Fake Kevin Rose’s Profile to Hit Digg FrontPage!

Posted by Abbas ||

January 3, 2009 ||

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I recently published a post “Diggers Revolt, Again!” that discussed how Power Diggers were being blamed for abusing their popularity and why Digg should evolve the system instead of banning these so-called power diggers.

This morning I saw something that I had never seen before, I received a shout from “kevinrose” recommending me to digg a submission of another user.

That seemed unreal, so I decided to look into the details to confirm if the shout was really sent by Kevin Rose or not, as expected it was not!

Following finding confirm that Kevin’s profile is being faked…

Every time I receive a shout on Digg I receive a e-mail on my Gmail. After seeing the shout in Gmail I tried finding the shout on my Digg profile but it was missing.
I never found this shout on Kevin’s shout history.. (see the picture below)
I compared two shout e-mails and found some obvious differences.. (see the pictures below)
The first one is the fake one…

This is an authentic shout received as an e-mail (I used this to compare with the one above ‘Fake’)

These two images very clearly show the difference.
I was not able to track the e-mail back to its originating IP as ~~Gmail does not display original header information~~ (I stand corrected on this one.. Gmail does show some header information..Thanks for pointing it out Saad!). So, if you got one at Yahoo or Hotmail.. you’ll be able to track the e-mail trails as well.
But tracking this user on Digg should be fairly simple for the Digg team as they track information about its users.