[TheRealVille]

Moderators can search for the source of your IP address. Each internet provider is given a range of IP addresses, which they assign to their subscribers. Hypothetically, if you logged in to a different account over a cell phone or 4G or 3G tablet connecting through a cell phone network, then there is no way that a moderator could say that the two accounts were related in any way (short of subpoenas to both the cell phone company and your cable or DSL provider to divulge the owner of the accounts). They can, under those circumstances determine that the user of those accounts are posting from the same general geographic area.

With a little more imagination, you could easily appear to be posting from two different locations separated by hundreds of miles. It is really a waste of time for free websites like this one to spend much time trying to determine who has multiple accounts. They can make it more difficult by doing things like disallowing the use of free email accounts for registration, but they cannot catch somebody who is determined to break the rules without resorting to the courts.

I believe you when you say that you only use one account, but I never fully trust anybody that I am only acquainted through the internet. It helps to keep me safe from Nigerian scam artists.:biglmao:

I actually had one of those type guys try to scam me once when I was trying to sell a motorcycle on the net. He wanted to write me a check for the bike, and another 9k dollar check for shipping, which he wanted wired to a "shipping" company. nicker: