I got one as well. It is kind of annoying, because it is spammy.
I received a PM on two accounts, on different days.
I suggest anyone leave a negative feedback on the user that they received the PM from, because i think spamming users PM's is unacceptable.
Topic: Anyone else get a Qtum advertising PM? (Read 1686 times)
I thought i'm the only one who receive this messages privately i just receive 2 times pm to me and 2 different old account made 2011 and 2013..
This is another attack from the hacker who hack the old database of bitcoin and i think they are the same person who hack the database.. and now trying to encourage people to apply if you are developer they can hired you this is the same as someone who working on black market and hiring someone in services section before to work to them..
Hope that this forum will not down or not be the same as before..
This is another attack from the hacker who hack the old database of bitcoin and i think they are the same person who hack the database.. and now trying to encourage people to apply if you are developer they can hired you this is the same as someone who working on black market and hiring someone in services section before to work to them..
Hope that this forum will not down or not be the same as before..
What a height of spam messages...
Qtum Test Network Launch in Shanghai:
The Qtum team hosted a launch event in Shanghai two days ago to celebrate the Test Network release. So far the network is running well, and tokens
are available for anyone interested. The source code is available on our github:
More information on how to use smart contracts with qtum may be found in our official thread
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.19812821
We also launch a block explorer - https://qtum.info
Please feel free to look over the code, and submit any feedback you may have. If you would like some Test Network tokens, so they are now available on our
Faucet: http://qtum.me , simply add your QTUM address and hit enter!
More news
The Qtum team is live in Moscow at the http://blockchainhack.ru/ hackathon!
Wish the participants good luck as they compete for 8500 Qtum tokens. This is live in Moscow July 1st-2nd
The Qtum team hosted a launch event in Shanghai two days ago to celebrate the Test Network release. So far the network is running well, and tokens
are available for anyone interested. The source code is available on our github:
Instructions on how to compile from source are listed in the Git. Please see the documentation provided:
Code:
Quickstart
Build on Ubuntu
This is a quick start script for compiling Qtum on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils git cmake libboost-all-dev
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev
# If you want to build the Qt GUI:
sudo apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler
git clone https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum
cd qtum
# Update cpp-ethereum submodule
git submodule update --init --recursive
# Note autogen will prompt to install some more dependencies if needed
./autogen.sh
./configure
make -j2
More information on how to use smart contracts with qtum may be found in our official thread
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.19812821
We also launch a block explorer - https://qtum.info
Please feel free to look over the code, and submit any feedback you may have. If you would like some Test Network tokens, so they are now available on our
Faucet: http://qtum.me , simply add your QTUM address and hit enter!
More news
The Qtum team is live in Moscow at the http://blockchainhack.ru/ hackathon!
Wish the participants good luck as they compete for 8500 Qtum tokens. This is live in Moscow July 1st-2nd
The website will working soon.
IF YOU ARE A TALENTED DEVELOPER, SEND YOUR RESUME TO OUR EMAIL: [email protected]
Very interesting, take a look at this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=192243.1660
You can see the multiple spam accounts posting small parts of their messages. If you look at the post history of the account that sent that message.
What a height of spam messages...
Qtum Test Network Launch in Shanghai:
The Qtum team hosted a launch event in Shanghai two days ago to celebrate the Test Network release. So far the network is running well, and tokens
are available for anyone interested. The source code is available on our github:
More information on how to use smart contracts with qtum may be found in our official thread
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.19812821
We also launch a block explorer - https://qtum.info
Please feel free to look over the code, and submit any feedback you may have. If you would like some Test Network tokens, so they are now available on our
Faucet: http://qtum.me , simply add your QTUM address and hit enter!
More news
The Qtum team is live in Moscow at the http://blockchainhack.ru/ hackathon!
Wish the participants good luck as they compete for 8500 Qtum tokens. This is live in Moscow July 1st-2nd
The Qtum team hosted a launch event in Shanghai two days ago to celebrate the Test Network release. So far the network is running well, and tokens
are available for anyone interested. The source code is available on our github:
Instructions on how to compile from source are listed in the Git. Please see the documentation provided:
Code:
Quickstart
Build on Ubuntu
This is a quick start script for compiling Qtum on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils git cmake libboost-all-dev
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev
# If you want to build the Qt GUI:
sudo apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler
git clone https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum
cd qtum
# Update cpp-ethereum submodule
git submodule update --init --recursive
# Note autogen will prompt to install some more dependencies if needed
./autogen.sh
./configure
make -j2
More information on how to use smart contracts with qtum may be found in our official thread
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.19812821
We also launch a block explorer - https://qtum.info
Please feel free to look over the code, and submit any feedback you may have. If you would like some Test Network tokens, so they are now available on our
Faucet: http://qtum.me , simply add your QTUM address and hit enter!
More news
The Qtum team is live in Moscow at the http://blockchainhack.ru/ hackathon!
Wish the participants good luck as they compete for 8500 Qtum tokens. This is live in Moscow July 1st-2nd
The website will working soon.
IF YOU ARE A TALENTED DEVELOPER, SEND YOUR RESUME TO OUR EMAIL: [email protected]
There is also an ongoing DDoS on our website, which started a few hours after the first spam messages appeared:
seems another user is sending the same spam again, just received a new message a few hours ago
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/frod-74535
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/frod-74535
I also got the pm with following subject
The Qtum Test Network Has Been Released!
Qtum is doing itself harm by sending spam messages
The Qtum Test Network Has Been Released!
Qtum is doing itself harm by sending spam messages
We are not sending the messages, and no one is doing it on our behalf. We don't know why this is happening, it could be an attack on our project, or it could be an individual or a group that is trying to lower the price of our tokens to get more.
It's a bit suspicious that our site was ddos'd the same day these spam messages started, and multiple Slack channels were being spammed by Qtum-Patirck, which was obviously fake.
Back in January/February we had this same type of behavior on our Slack channel from someone spamming almost identical messages about another project.
I also got the pm with following subject
The Qtum Test Network Has Been Released!
Qtum is doing itself harm by sending spam messages
The Qtum Test Network Has Been Released!
Qtum is doing itself harm by sending spam messages
Please report them the moment they arrive. If you see messages like this coming from a "Qtum-Patrick" or "Qtum-Patirck" on Slack channels you frequent, report those also.
also got this pm but apparently the mods banned the user as the message got removed from my inbox, good job.
I received another pm from a newbie. And reported it immediately. Don't click the links. Probably a malware to hack your accounts and destroying the reputation of Qtum Project.
It happened in past with me a guy was sending PM to me on a mass amount daily and once I replied he sent me a link likely scam intent.
I suggest everyone be precautious when you get these P'Messages.
I suggest everyone be precautious when you get these P'Messages.
Almost all active member here receive that message i also receive this message.
Without strong evidence, I can't ban the subject of spam because then you could get anyone banned by spamming "for" them.
Agree I think the one who need to ban is the member who's send those messages.
Any plans on banning Qtum, since it's almost definitely them/their team behind the spam?
Without strong evidence, I can't ban the subject of spam because then you could get anyone banned by spamming "for" them.
Please report these PMs and any future PMs of this nature. Whoever is doing this spamming was not asked on our behalf and it makes people annoyed with us. Whoever is spamming with all these PMs should be banned
I also received that PM.
I think someone is destroying qtum project reputation here in BTT..
EDIT: I can't find now in my inbox.
I think someone is destroying qtum project reputation here in BTT..
EDIT: I can't find now in my inbox.
theymos deleted them.
I wiped all of those spam PMs, and the senders are all banned.
I received PM from https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/raintrain-82923
Date of the message Today at 07:27:43 PM
Yes, and I reported the PMs too. The user is sending these messages on all slack channels too and I did not click on any of those links as they can be malware/phishing links. Are those hacked accounts? They haven't been posting since 2011-12.
Edit: Got 2 more today
Edit: Got 2 more today
hero member
Activity: 560
Merit: 506
I prefer Zakir over Muhammed when mentioning me!
I also received that PM.
I think someone is destroying qtum project reputation here in BTT..
EDIT: I can't find now in my inbox.
I think someone is destroying qtum project reputation here in BTT..
EDIT: I can't find now in my inbox.
theymos deleted them.
I wiped all of those spam PMs, and the senders are all banned.
I also received that PM.
I think someone is destroying qtum project reputation here in BTT..
EDIT: I can't find now in my inbox.
I think someone is destroying qtum project reputation here in BTT..
EDIT: I can't find now in my inbox.
These messages were not sent or endorsed by anyone on the Qtum team. We can't tell if it's an individual or group that's trying to harm the project, or increase the price for their own benefit.
The timing of these messages is suspicious, we were doing a big event on the same day, and our site was DDoS'd.
If anyone has evidence of the people behind this, please send it directly to the forum's administrators.
We had incidents in the past where our signature campaign was causing spam, and that was one of the reasons we ended it early.
The timing of these messages is suspicious, we were doing a big event on the same day, and our site was DDoS'd.
If anyone has evidence of the people behind this, please send it directly to the forum's administrators.
We had incidents in the past where our signature campaign was causing spam, and that was one of the reasons we ended it early.
ask yourselves. your team didn't hire bounty whores to somehow distribute your tokens. you bought your tokens yourselves and hire an army of spammers for its awareness. its all classic.
you harmed your project yourselves by making it a scam.
These messages were not sent or endorsed by anyone on the Qtum team. We can't tell if it's an individual or group that's trying to harm the project, or increase the price for their own benefit.
The timing of these messages is suspicious, we were doing a big event on the same day, and our site was DDoS'd.
If anyone has evidence of the people behind this, please send it directly to the forum's administrators.
We had incidents in the past where our signature campaign was causing spam, and that was one of the reasons we ended it early.
The timing of these messages is suspicious, we were doing a big event on the same day, and our site was DDoS'd.
If anyone has evidence of the people behind this, please send it directly to the forum's administrators.
We had incidents in the past where our signature campaign was causing spam, and that was one of the reasons we ended it early.
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