# Have you ever been robbed/scammed abroad while on holiday in Africa?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-robbed-scammed-abroad-while-on-holiday-in-africa/792579>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 1, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-robbed-scammed-abroad-while-on-holiday-in-africa/792579 "2017-08-01T14:51:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-robbed-scammed-abroad-while-on-holiday-in-africa/792579/21 "2017-08-06T08:12:43Z")

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Thanks, I’ve been on this board 16 years and I never have figured out how people know stuff like that.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-robbed-scammed-abroad-while-on-holiday-in-africa/792579/22 "2017-08-06T15:00:06Z")

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> [@madmonk28](#):
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> Thanks, I’ve been on this board 16 years and I never have figured out how people know stuff like that.

IP addresses

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**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-robbed-scammed-abroad-while-on-holiday-in-africa/792579/23 "2017-08-06T15:55:11Z")

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I meant how other posters find out someone is a sock, they don’t announce it.

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-robbed-scammed-abroad-while-on-holiday-in-africa/792579/24 "2017-08-07T00:34:37Z")

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> [@elfkin477](#):
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> IP addresses

We all have access to IP addressees?

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**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-robbed-scammed-abroad-while-on-holiday-in-africa/792579/25 "2017-08-07T01:03:20Z")

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> [@jtur88](#):
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> We all have access to IP addressees?

Used by other members to access the boards? I hope not.

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