This person sent me spam by private message, and I quote:
ModeratorTeam wrote:
Dear, JazHaz!
A virus alert was noticed on your computer.
We highly recommend you to check your computer and perform online virus check at our site immediately: http://security-tool2010.com/JazHaz
If you do not pass this test we will have to delete your account and forward a complaint to your Internet provider.
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Forum Administration aegidian.org.
JazHaz
Gimi wrote:
drew wrote:
£4,500 though! <Faints>
Cheers,
Drew.
Maybe you could start a Kickstarter Campaign to found your £4500 pledge.
Thanks to Gimi, I got an eBook in my inbox tonight (31st May 2014 - Release of Elite Reclamation)!
Oh damn, a scareware artist. I'll bet if you visited the site in the link, some activeX or javascript boobytrap would be sprung and your poor windows machine gets pwned by a botnet or backdoor virus.
Please, kill ModeratorTeam now!!
Running Oolite buttery smooth & rock stable w/ tons of eyecandy oxps on:
ASUS Prime X370-A
Ryzen 5 1500X
16GB DDR4 3200MHZ
128GB NVMe M.2 SSD (Boot drive)
1TB Hybrid HDD (For software and games)
EVGA GTX-1070 SC
1080P Samsung large screen monitor
There's a huge amount of hits on Stop Forum Spam for ModeratorTeam, with a lot of different IPs and email addys.
I suspect this is a botnet herder using scareware tactics in forum PM spams to grow his zombie army, through his zombies no less.
Interestingly, SFS was unreachable for several hours today, most likely via a DDoS attack. The money says it was this botnet behind it.
Running Oolite buttery smooth & rock stable w/ tons of eyecandy oxps on:
ASUS Prime X370-A
Ryzen 5 1500X
16GB DDR4 3200MHZ
128GB NVMe M.2 SSD (Boot drive)
1TB Hybrid HDD (For software and games)
EVGA GTX-1070 SC
1080P Samsung large screen monitor
Then, reading through the message, it looked suspicious. No real forum/site admin/moderator would send this kind of reguests (click on this link!?!), and even if the reguest was genuine, sender would be the admin/moderator as themselves.
Glad I checked another_commander's announcement first...
EDIT: Another weird thing was that I got an e-mail notification of this message, but I have the notification turned off in my profile...
Weirdness 2: the notification e-mail (from: [email protected]) came to my work e-mail, which is different from the gmail account I used when registering here!
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Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied