[Scam Prevention] Using Google Image Search to Your Advantage

[Belumoth]

First off, not sure if this is the best place move if needed.
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Want to see if the account you are buying has been sold before? Fake bank? Here is a way to see if it has.
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Ok so i was recently scammed and before i was going to pay i felt the urge to run the "drawing" through the google image search. but i pushed the thought aside.

Well I decided to run the search the next morning and boom, there it was, the same exact picture same size and everything.

This will teach you how to use this awesome function google has incorporated. And I don't believe many people know about it.

Step One: Navigate to -> images.google.com

Step Two: Click on the camera icon

Step Three: Enter either the url, upload or simply drag and drop the picture in question

Step Four: Compair Results

As you can see, the first picture was an exact match.

Quick and effective, no more scrolling through pages and pages looking for one picture.

 

[IRL Seller]

I did not even know you could search by image...

What if there is a watermark in the image that was ADDED after being downloaded offline (by the supposed "seller")

When you search will you get the original? Would it be a banable offense if caught?

 

[Nature]

I did not even know you could search by image...

What if there is a watermark in the image that was ADDED after being downloaded offline (by the supposed "seller")

When you search will you get the original? Would it be a banable offense if caught?

It should be ban material unless the user is able to verify that he does indeed own the account and so forth.

 

[Belumoth]

I did not even know you could search by image...

What if there is a watermark in the image that was ADDED after being downloaded offline (by the supposed "seller")

When you search will you get the original? Would it be a banable offense if caught?

In my example the guy did add his "watermark" and it brought up the original with no watermark. This was used in my report to get the user banned.

 

[Brendan]

In my example the guy did add his "watermark" and it brought up the original with no watermark. This was used in my report to get the user banned.

Google will take over the world one day with their technology.

Thanks for the guide. I personally didn't know there was even a Google Image Search haha. Also, you could create a thread in the Internet Guides Section for this guide, as well as the one in here