Impostor
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An impostor or imposter is a person who pretends to be somebody else, often to try to gain social advantages, but just as often for the purpose of damaging somebody's reputation.
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Types of impostors
- Impersonator
- An impersonator is someone who imitates another player, usually with using his nickname and sometimes also with imitating or coping the behavior or actions of the another. Well known players and contributors to community become often a target of impostors.
- Fake clan member
- A fake clan member is someone who puts a known clan tag to his nickname without being allowed to. The reasons to doing this are quite different. The easiest possibility is that he want to participate at the good reputation of the clan. Another possible reason is that he has failed to get into a clan and is now ingoring the clan's decision or want to take vengeance on them. A third possibility for the appearance of fake clan members is the intention to damage a clan's reputation with actions like cheating or abusing the master role.
Identifing an impostor
With server logs
Jul 25 08:00:48 [201.58.249.143] mde changed his name to winstrol{TyD}.
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Jul 25 08:05:22 [201.58.249.143] winstrol{TyD} says: 'type /ban 0'.
Jul 25 08:05:42 [XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] Quick_burger says: 'winst..tyd is a cheater'.
Jul 25 08:05:48 [XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] Undead[C=64] says: 'and impersonator'.
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Jul 25 08:07:12 [XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] metal kicks winstrol{TyD} (13).
Jul 25 08:07:12 [201.58.249.143] disconnecting winstrol{TyD} from IP 201.58.249.143 [kicked by server operator]
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Jul 25 08:07:57 [201.58.249.143] AnY (10) connected on IP 201.58.249.143.
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Jul 25 08:09:18 [201.58.249.143] AnY changed his name to Paulet{TyD}'s.
Jul 25 08:09:27 [201.58.249.143] Paulet{TyD}'s says: 'hey'.
Jul 25 08:09:34 [201.58.249.143] Paulet{TyD}'s says: 'going to bed now'.
Jul 25 08:09:37 [201.58.249.143] Paulet{TyD}'s says: 'see u all'.
Ingame
The identfication of a fake clan member takes normally a simple look at the clan's members list on their website (which should be regulary updated). Another way is if the fake clan member is playing on a server hosting by "his" clan, that he will be asked to take admin, which he normally should be able to.
