[SCAM] Ongoing attempt - Phishing link send around in PM, copy of the forum - page 3.

BadBear

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Quote from: LoWang on July 10, 2013, 06:05:59 PM

BadBear I really don't know what is so complicated on this... Several people have reported these two names, so this is not enough for you to act? Also look at their ratings. I don't think these negative numbers are a coincidence. Why not just ban them and send them a PM asking if they are sending these messages or not and their pcs are hacked or something. "Damage has been done" means you don't care anymore? Not everybody is so smart not to fall for this phishing and I think that security should be a priority here more then on any other forum!

Just ban them and send them a pm asking if they actually send the phishing messages or if they've been hacked? Are you high? They're already intentionally deceiving people with their phishing links, I doubt they'll feel any moral qualms about lying to me, if they don't just ignore me.

And how do you twist "the damage has been done and I literally lack the ability to do anything about it" into I don't care?

Maged

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Quote from: LoWang on July 10, 2013, 06:05:59 PM

BadBear I really don't know what is so complicated on this... Several people have reported these two names, so this is not enough for you to act?

Sadly, no. Sad

Fortunately, there's enough public info available in this case for us to determine that they are an alt of someone who is banned, therefore we might be able to ban them for ban evasion. Tongue

LoWang

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BadBear I really don't know what is so complicated on this... Several people have reported these two names, so this is not enough for you to act? Also look at their ratings. I don't think these negative numbers are a coincidence. Why not just ban them and send them a PM asking if they are sending these messages or not and their pcs are hacked or something. "Damage has been done" means you don't care anymore? Not everybody is so smart not to fall for this phishing and I think that security should be a priority here more then on any other forum!

Lethos

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Keep it Simple. Every Bit Matters.

theymos

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I've adjusted the limits to make spamming more difficult.

Activity	Min. seconds between post actions	Max PM recipients	PMs per hour
0	360	3	5
16	74	5	30
30	60	5	60
60	30	5	60
100	12	10	120
200	10	15	120
300	8	20	120

escrow.ms

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Quote from: BadBear on July 10, 2013, 05:25:12 PM

Quote from: Lethos on July 10, 2013, 04:01:22 PM

Just got my 2nd message, identical, just from someone else.
Can the Mods chime in if they are taking action to curb this behaviour?

We try, but we can't really do anything about it, nor do we have enough information about it to act on it if we could. We can't see reported pms, and we can't do anything about the sent pms, so the damage has been done and the ban (which we can do) is really just reactionary to stop further damage.

It is spam and probably annoying to those who get them, and leads to more spam so I do ban them when I see enough corroboration to assume it's true, though that's bound to lead to mistakes and drama eventually. Oh well, such is life.

There should be a ban group image, so people can see that guy is banned.
Currently you can not find if someone is banned or not.

Lethos

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Quote from: BadBear on July 10, 2013, 05:25:12 PM

Quote from: Lethos on July 10, 2013, 04:01:22 PM

Just got my 2nd message, identical, just from someone else.
Can the Mods chime in if they are taking action to curb this behaviour?

We try, but we can't really do anything about it, nor do we have enough information about it to act on it if we could. We can't see reported pms, and we can't do anything about the sent pms, so the damage has been done and the ban (which we can do) is really just reactionary to stop further damage.

It is spam and probably annoying to those who get them, and leads to more spam so I do ban them when I see enough corroboration to assume it's true, though that's bound to lead to mistakes and drama eventually. Oh well, such is life.

Thanks Badbear, I understand you have limits to what you can do, as long as you know about it and do what you can that is all I was after.

BadBear

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Quote from: Lethos on July 10, 2013, 04:01:22 PM

Just got my 2nd message, identical, just from someone else.
Can the Mods chime in if they are taking action to curb this behaviour?

We try, but we can't really do anything about it, nor do we have enough information about it to act on it if we could. We can't see reported pms, and we can't do anything about the sent pms, so the damage has been done and the ban (which we can do) is really just reactionary to stop further damage.

It is spam and probably annoying to those who get them, and leads to more spam so I do ban them when I see enough corroboration to assume it's true, though that's bound to lead to mistakes and drama eventually. Oh well, such is life.

dexX7

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Most likely the same. Just look at their posting style. Very short comments and almost everytime something like "that's great" or so. This goes on for weeks now..

Lethos

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Quote from: morapick013 on July 10, 2013, 08:44:13 PM

Hello,
Welcome to the BTC-E Trading Bot. If your interested in the trial version or purchasing the full thing please visit the sales site: xxxx://www.(malware)

Also, if you would like to earn a nice .1 btc a week for adding the signature please visit the thread and tell Acnee I sent you!

Thanks!

Just got my 2nd message, identical, just from someone else.
Can the Mods chime in if they are taking action to curb this behaviour?

pontiacg5

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Quote from: Arcas on July 10, 2013, 02:55:54 PM

It seems we all have different attackers, are these accounts all puppets, or are they legitimate users that got tricked into giving away their passwords?

Do you not know the definition of Phishing? Perhaps you should google it.

Arcas

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It seems we all have different attackers, are these accounts all puppets, or are they legitimate users that got tricked into giving away their passwords?

Arcas

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Interestingly enough, my phisher spent a lot of time in that stupid Buy Bitcointalk Accounts thread.

2112

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Another one for the administrators to delete.

Quote from: meekstav876 on July 10, 2013, 04:44:44 PM

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The private message I received didn't contain any phishing attempts, just a normal HTTP link to sorry://www.(malware).

crumbs

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if this helps, i got two

Today at 02:15:57 PM BTC-E Trade Bot / Earn .1 btc a week haasBB8
Today at 11:34:18 AM BTC-E Trade Bot / Earn .1 btc a week dirtscience

greyhawk

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Another phisher. Go-go-gadget moderator options - ban user.

binaryFate

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Still wild and free

If they phish one account, they can right away use this account to send more messages. Devil!

ktbken

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FYI
I have just received a second email this time with the .uk extension masked for the address of the forum

Lethos

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Keep it Simple. Every Bit Matters.

I had a very similar thing appear in my PM just recently (already reported to mods). No way I'd click on that link after reading this thread.

Quote from: cowanjeffrey93 on July 10, 2013, 04:21:40 PM

Hello,
Welcome to the BTC-E Trading Bot. If your interested in the trial version or purchasing the full thing please visit the sales site: xxxx://www.(malware)

Also, if you would like to earn a nice .1 btc a week for adding the signature please visit the thread and tell Acnee I sent you!

Thanks!

*Modified link to prevent anyone think it's a good idea to click it.

These message appears to be coming from multiple accounts.
Bought accounts, compromised or just created exactly for this purpose?

daggerismo

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Hello,
Welcome to the BTC-E Trading Bot. If your interested in the trial version or purchasing the full thing please visit the sales thread: http://bitcointalk.org/index.phptopic=252907.0.htm

Also, if you would like to earn a nice .1 btc a week for adding the signature please visit the thread and tell Acnee I sent you!

Thanks!

now i received this from user https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/bestmarketer004-132826

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