"Melinda Shore" wrote in message
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Wingnut wrote:
Interesting. This same "fundable" organization has been spamming the cat
groups with requests for donations for a group of cats abandoned in a
Northridge, CA home. I'm not savvy enough to determine the ISP origin.

I'm a nerd and like to read headers, and every fundable.com-
based solicitation I've looked at has been fraudulent.
Sometimes the clues are in the headers but sometimes you can
do a little simple poking and discover a problem. For
example, a few months ago someone posted a solicitation from
an IP address that really didn't suggest there might be a
problem, but going to the website of the rescue group
referenced in the solicitation showed that the miscreant who
posted it copied a more-than-two-year-old solicitation *on*
the rescue group website. The dog himself had fully
recovered and been placed in a permanent home. I kind of
hate to say this (I know there are an awful lot of people
and animals in need, particularly these days) but I would
tend to assume anything using fundable.com as a collection
resource is a fraud.

What do you use to trace an IP address? My search came up with lots of
sites, but many of them are very likely carriers of malware and spyware.

Paul and Muttley