booblacain:


FG of Nigeria cannot track you through twitter server. Stop over exaggerating the danger.

@dreamwaker, since the person asked you to close the account before payment then it is more likely that he is more interested in you closing the account than knowing your account details. So it is either the government wants you to close that account or someone out there wants it, another angle is you could lying.

madridguy:
I can bet with my last kobo I've been on Internet while you still wait for school bus to carry you to school.

madridguy:
You be small pickin for you to make this submission. So the OP is not operating through an IP? You must be a kid if you think Nigeria Government don't have access to the back door of majority of the website running on their cyber space.
I have said my own to the OP as a brother and I don't have time for irrelevant argument.

madridguy:
I can bet with my last kobo I've been on Internet while you still wait for school bus to carry you to school.

Okoroawusa:

u wicked

fuckbmc:
IP that you can alter d way u lyk? lmao

madridguy:
Funny you, because IP can be altered means he cannot be tracked through IP. O.Y.O is your case because no how you hide/change your IP your DNS will still reveal your location. If you like use RDP, SSH, VPN or other sophisticated IP Toolz your yansh is still open. Don't just commit or if you, pray dey don't look for you.

fuckbmc:
lol lyk u knw my age, my profession? well, u still be underage kid and a baby to cyber world. a child born when I start to use internet don reach naija legal age to decide on their own. I bet u dnt have up to 10yrs experience on internet, if you do I want u to tell me the exact yr that ymsgr stopped user access to add & chat unknown friends (like 2go does) and when it stopped leaving u with only option to add email of person known to u for communication(like whatsapp does).

fuckbmc:
Domain Name Server? bro, am done with u because u don't knw what u are saying

Dreamwaker:


Crypto kini, I never believed in all those things. They can pay to a family/friend/associate overseas and that person can send me the money that's if I decide to deactivate it but 250k naira is nothing for someone who works.

Dreamwaker:
I got two mails from an official in the presidents office to deactivate a parody twitter account I'm running. First mail was a instructing me to deactivate the twitter account @PresidentOfNG which I replied saying "it's a free world and I don't have to obey their directives" and I then got a second email from this official offering me money that once I deactivate it, I will get a "handsome" reward of 250k naira. As if the reward is a man or there are ugly monetary rewards.

Anyway should I accept it or ask for more money or keep running it and also could it be a fake official who just wants the twitter account for themselves abs no reward will be given because the mail stated deactivation first then reward.

Dreamwaker:




Ah never thought of that o. That's a possibility but it's not a crime to have a parody account, is it?

And I don't use it for scam purposes o, just a bit of a laugh and to kill time.

madridguy:
Funny you, you just open your yansh with this. Yahoo messenger of all chatting tools. Well. We don't need to argue, just say your hood, state and mention the cyber cafe you started operating Internet facility from am sure people on this platform will come and testify.

I rep Akowonjo/Alimosho and when I mention the cafe names where I learn how to use Internet people will surely know.

Twitter user sells @Israel username for six-figure sum
State of Israel buys account from Spaniard despite Twitter policy against username squatting
Giles Tremlett in Madrid
Tue 14 Sep 2010 13.25 BST First published on Tue 14 Sep 2010 13.25 BST
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While Twitter tries to work out how to make money, a Spaniard has sold his username on the site for a six-figure sum.

In 2007 Israel Meléndez set up a Twitter account under his first name. This year he was approached by the state of Israel, which wanted to buy @Israel from him for a quantity of dollars that, he told Spain's Público newspaper, included "five zeroes".

The sale went through despite Twitter's stated policy of preventing username squatting and Meléndez, who runs adult websites for a living, said Twitter itself had advised the Israeli government on how this could be done.

"All the business of getting in contact with Twitter was done by them [Israel]," Meléndez said. "I never saw any emails [between them] and Twitter never contacted me, but if the @Israel account is open and working I imagine it means that Twitter had no problem with the transaction."


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Meléndez said he set up the @Israel account when he stopped using another Twitter name to escape the attention of an ex-girlfriend. He barely used the account, which was soon flooded with messages criticising the policies of the Israeli government. Only recently did he decide to look at it again and found a message from the office of the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, asking whether it could be bought.

He said he negotiated the deal with the Israeli foreign ministry's Chaim Shacham. "The negotiating lasted for two months but once everything was clear it was all simple. I went to the Israeli consulate in Miami and from there, by telephone, we closed the deal and the transaction."

He sold Israel his password, allowing them to close his account down and immediately reopen it, moving the Israeli foreign ministry's @israelMFA account to @israel on 26 August. "They got on the phone, I gave them the password, they saw that it worked and they gave me a cheque at the consulate," he said from his home in Miami.

Israel is not the first to find a way to purchase control of a Twitter account. The cable news service CNN was one of the first to manage it.

Twitter explains its rules on selling usernames like this: "Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with Twitter, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell."

madridguy:
Funny you, because IP can be altered means he cannot be tracked through IP. O.Y.O is your case because no how you hide/change your IP your DNS will still reveal your location. If you like use RDP, SSH, VPN or other sophisticated IP Toolz your yansh is still open. Don't just commit or if you, pray dey don't look for you.

Dreamwaker:


Crypto kini, I never believed in all those things. They can pay to a family/friend/associate overseas and that person can send me the money that's if I decide to deactivate it but 250k naira is nothing for someone who works.

Dreamwaker:
I got two mails from an official in the presidents office to deactivate a parody twitter account I'm running. First mail was a instructing me to deactivate the twitter account @PresidentOfNG which I replied saying "it's a free world and I don't have to obey their directives" and I then got a second email from this official offering me money that once I deactivate it, I will get a "handsome" reward of 250k naira. As if the reward is a man or there are ugly monetary rewards.

Anyway should I accept it or ask for more money or keep running it and also could it be a fake official who just wants the twitter account for themselves abs no reward will be given because the mail stated deactivation first then reward.

lionel4power:

AS A SEASONED CYBER SECURITY EXPERTS...

PS: Nigeria DSS are good...

I'll give you some good advice.
1) Tweet with your phone instead
2) if you must tweet with a PC endeavour to use a VPN
3) Don't share your contact details online EVER!!!
4) Don't link your Twitter account to any other social media account.
5) Review all apps you gave access to your Twitter account immediately. (Do it now)
6) Don't share your location with Twitter ( to be safe turn off your GPS LOCATOR)
7)
before you enter Twitter, type duckduckgo.com then type Twitter in the search box. it would automatically keep you safe online.
8 ) protect you TWEETS... go to..... option, under Settings > Security and Privacy, to protect your tweets , meaning only those followers you approve get access to them.

THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL
# DELETE ALL IMPLICATING TWEETS AND INFORMATION YOU POSTED IN ALL YOUR TWITTER ACCOUNT NOW
# PUT A DISCLAIMER CLAUSE ON THE TWITTER ACCOUNT
#

OmoOshodi:
Ngeneukwenu... The transgendered is keeping vigil on this post.... Wonder why??

Dreamwaker:
I got two mails from an official in the presidents office to deactivate a parody twitter account I'm running. First mail was a instructing me to deactivate the twitter account @PresidentOfNG which I replied saying "it's a free world and I don't have to obey their directives" and I then got a second email from this official offering me money that once I deactivate it, I will get a "handsome" reward of 250k naira. As if the reward is a man or there are ugly monetary rewards.

Anyway should I accept it or ask for more money or keep running it and also could it be a fake official who just wants the twitter account for themselves abs no reward will be given because the mail stated deactivation first then reward.

NgeneUkwenu:
And a lot of ipob Vandals are already following him...

fuckbmc:
yahoo messenger is the oldest & favourite chatting browser back then. if you are active on the internet in the year 2000, & 2001 you will testify to my claims. Propietor of the school where I worked back then loves me so much because am the first teacher to expose their students to the world of internet. We use a the one & only cyber cafe(I forgot the name because its exactly 17yrs that I stopped working with the school) located around Catholic Hospital Oluyoro Oke Offa, Ibadan. hw old are u then when I don dey collect salary as a teacher?

themonk:

You have zero idea of what you are talking about. I pity people that liked your post. You think googling DNS, RDP,SSH and VPN will confuse nairalanders?
Do you even know how a VPN works? Or what SSH is?

Dreamwaker:


Ok done that just now. However I don't think any official from the presidency has time to be chasing every parody accounts of the president. They are plenty online on different platforms.

madridguy:
We are taking this too far bro. I'm sorry if I've offended you with my early submission, far back 17 years ago, I may not be receiving salary but Alhamdulilah am working and earning money too.

fuckbmc:

You talked about my age and that's why I have to tell you the reality about my person. Age is just a number and nothing else so there's no need to brag about it.
May God crown our effort, Amen.

One Love

madridguy:
Well, I don't want to argue over this again but I will be grateful if you can provide any server that can guarantee 100% anonymity.
Thanks in advance.

Dreamwaker:


I'm not a criminal o and I'm not looking to dupe anyone. Even someone from Argentina wrote to "me" asking for help, sent me his number, passport and company details, and I clearly told him I'm not the real Buhari. Screenshot above.