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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 4:38 am
by JazHaz
ModeratorTeam
https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php?mode ... ile&u=2903
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.
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 4:41 am
by Chaky
You're not alone.
I bet everyone got that same PM.
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:11 am
by Cmdr Wyvern
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!!
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:13 am
by Chaky
I did recieve same PM on some other forum and was bold enough to click on the link... (I think I did it from within VirtualPC)
The link was bogus.
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:50 am
by Cmdr Wyvern
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.
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:21 am
by Chrisfs
I got this as well, and was worried for a sec, and then I realized
'Hey, wait a minute I'm running Ubuntu now, this can't possibly be real'.
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:17 am
by DaddyHoggy
Chrisfs wrote:I got this as well, and was worried for a sec, and then I realized
'Hey, wait a minute I'm running Ubuntu now, this can't possibly be real'.
Same here (on my main machine) - although this machine happens to be a Vista machine at the moment because it's my work laptop...
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:35 am
by Zieman
re: ModeratorTeam's message:
My 1st thought was: "WHAT?!?"
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!
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:39 am
by JazHaz
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:30 am
by DaddyHoggy
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https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php?mode ... ile&u=2904
"Hummannic" ID'd as a spammer on SFS (despite semi believable occupation and interests still set off my spammy-sense)
http://www.stopforumspam.com/search?q=h ... webhop.biz
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 6:44 am
by Diziet Sma
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:21 am
by another_commander
Confirmed. Spammer's post deleted.
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 3:40 am
by Cmdr Wyvern
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The spammy sense went off on this guy.
SFS hits for
SecuredOne
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:54 pm
by Disembodied
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johnylod:
https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php?mode ... ile&u=2906
Loads of recent registrations, plus an odd link. I could be wrong but it all feels spammy to me ...
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 1:17 pm
by Disembodied