Honeytrap gubbings

I just thought I’d share with you something interesting when I was looking to extract as much profit as I could from a free £25 bonus from Racebets…

Of course, the first thing I did when getting the notification of the free bonus was to fire up OddsMonkey to find a nice close match with high-ish odds. I thought my luck was in when a few matches close to 100% were returned, however when I attempted to place the bet, Racebets took an age to process before telling me the odds had changed.

This happened 5 or 6 times before I then received the dreaded gubbing email (all this took roughly 10 mins) and I was immediately restricted to SP bets only.

It seems to me that Racebets (and perhaps other bookies too) are publishing honeytrap prices on selected runners during the day and will use this to detect match bettors.

So perhaps don’t always go for the highest % rating every time. And try to avoid the honey.

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steveo 3 April 28, 2016 at 1:41 pm

Interesting, do you know how Amazon manages to offer stuff “based on your browsing history”?

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beh 10 April 28, 2016 at 1:53 pm

Assuming Amazon just mean based on your browsing history of their own site. There’s even a link at the bottom of the page “View or edit your browsing history”.

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John W 3 April 28, 2016 at 1:55 pm

Amazon can only store what you’ve browsed on amazon.co.uk(.com) nowhere else. It should be impossible to inspect your web browser history.

Interestingly, people got scared a little while ago because Gmail seemingly knew what products you’d bought from Amazon. They didn’t achieve this through cookies, but simply scanned the purchase confirmation emails you received.

https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/816486

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steveo 3 April 28, 2016 at 2:07 pm

Hmm, I’ve had stuff I’ve been searching for on google appear at apparently randomly on the Amazon home page and eBay sometimes gets in on it. Though thinking about it, its probably Doubleclick telling on me.

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cbates60 0 April 28, 2016 at 3:28 pm

From what I gather, mpsnare/iesnare monitors your machine’s activity/behavior in real-time and feeds back numerous types of data to iovation. Pages visited, your device’s installation data, info from your registry, browser and operating system information etc.
Third parties can then buy access to this information, as in the case of bookmakers.
It’s called “cookieless fingerprinting”. Bookmakers will have their reasons for employing it but by far the most common reason other third parties will employ it is for spam purposes. You won’t even know which companies have access to your data.
I am new to matched betting and this is probably why I have all of a sudden been receiving debt solution emails direct to my inbox! and plenty of real looking bookie emails to my spam. A nasty little thing this mpsnare/iesnare it seems.

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beh 10 April 28, 2016 at 4:04 pm

I’d suggest people are relying rather too heavily on hearsay/speculation combined with a bit of confirmation bias.

Fingerprinting is based on very basic bits of information given out by browsers (not the registry) and is nothing as intrusive as you suggest, for a quick test see – https://panopticlick.eff.org/tracker . This doesn’t rely on any special software like mpsnare but it’s usefulness is varied depending on how “unique” you are. Third party cookies (e.g. DoubleClick) are the way to track you across multiple sites but they’re effectively anonymous and not tied to your email address.

Did you really never receive spam email from dodgy casinos or loan offers before matched betting?

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Chris 22 April 28, 2016 at 9:20 pm

Yeah its like when the ads in the bottom right tell me how i need to gain a few inches to really satisfy my woman. How do they know these things about me?

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Pickle 60 April 28, 2016 at 9:41 pm

I suggest people install privacy badger and see whats running on particular sites. As im typing this this page is showing 7 trackers including maps.google.com and paypal. Ive no idea how or why but it brings up some interesting stuff.

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