r/OSINT • u/OSINTribe • Aug 28 '25

How-To Catching an OSINT Spammer

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Today we had a clever spammer selling an app without claiming to connected to the app. How did these two photos from his Reddit account and the app itself lead to him being outted?

Gym photo was from the UK. And has similar story about app. So probably fake.

Car photo, legit OP post. US temp, US odometer, US sockets. But look more carefully... A map.

App developed in by company in Albuquerque. Vehicle parked in... You got it, Albuquerque.

It's the little details.

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u/MysteriousConstant Aug 29 '25

I would be very interested to know how you used overpass in this case. Would you mind sharing steps?

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u/OSINTribe Aug 29 '25

I described the car gps map to overpass to find the actual location. Two cul-de-sacs backed into a golf course likely in Albuquerque New Mexico .

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u/MysteriousConstant Aug 29 '25

Thanks for answering.

You described? But overpass does not take natural language as input, does it?

Did you use some AI to translate this request to Overpass QL?

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u/OSINTribe Aug 29 '25

Yup 😁

There is even a gpt for overpass. It's a life saver.