Ok, the use of the word 'Scumm' and the name of the sender makes me think this is a joke, but I hope not, because man... hilarious.
I recieved this email today:
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From Haxoor_25@Hackerz.com
WE decideD that Scumm like you doesn'T Dezerve to Live!
But weze nEEd a goood WebmasTer to k33p 0ur buziness going.
So Join us!
Or Fry!
DeFF1EE
I replied with:
QuoteWhat ‘buziness’ is that?
Micro-biology? Aerospace?
Sorry, I’m not smart enough for that.
I choose... FYie.
ShaWnz0rz
Hopefully I can turn this into a weekly series or something.
/me eyes Def suspiciously.
http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=6949
It is happenning to me, Andial and Squinky too.
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** PLEASE BE AWARE OF THE SPECIAL REPLY METHOD DETAILED AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS EMAIL **
J0in US 0r FRY!
JUNK
h3h3h3h3h3!!!
REPLYING PLEASE NOTE : To reply to this email click here This email is sent using Encrypter(R) software for the highest email security. Failing to reply to the email via the link above will result in your reply NOT being received.
Some bastard is obviously getting email addy's from this board. I NEVER use my juncmodule.com email addy for "other" things. They got it from my site, this site, or mega-tokyo. I don't even get "penis-spam" at that address.
I love the Scumm part Rode!
later,
-junc (and they didn't even spell my NAME right!!)
EDIT: Check this crap out: http://www.sharpmail.co.uk/html/index.html (http://www.sharpmail.co.uk/html/index.html) That is the site that the reply thing points to. What a bunch of CRAP!
Quotefree service that lets you send an email to any email address letting you specify the "From :" field
The lame spammers email service I suppose.
Junc,
The email I was to reply with didn't go to that site.
Maybe there are some people here acting screwy!
Sorry for another post.
I just wanted to know if Rodekill, Andail, OR Squinky's "Reply to emails were to that site.
Cuz they weren't here.
If somebody is harvesting e-mail addresses from this forum then that's serious stuff.
Rode, could you post the complete headers of the e-mail you got, so I can see where it came from.
You have to be a registered user here in order to get people's e-mail addys, so I can at least delete the account of whoever is doing it.
I am an innocent man!
Y'know that 'report to moderator' button down there? Well, it's hooked up to the gen-gen moderator's email adresses, and that includes me.
QuoteComment by reporting user: THis post is offensive!
The following post has been reported by a user: Guest (Guest)
Subject: Re:Shawno vs the hacks0rz, part 2
by: juncmodule
Reply # in thread: 2
http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=6951;start=2#msg84640
So, it's pretty obvious now that whoever is behind this little scam is a complete retard under the impression that they're being really clever and cunning with what they're doing. Considering I got an almost idential email with an almost identical comment on a related thread yesterday from 'Guest' logged in as his forum name, suspicions have been hightened. Stop this bullshit now, thanks.
Juncmodule, thanks for posting that link....because that same goofy e-mail I got form phillip westmoreland is from that site...Now, I'm glad I didn't reply...
Personally I didn't think that e-mail was one damn bit funny, and ussaually I have a good sense of humor...But, that email threatned my marriage, career and my sense of security....
Theres some form of karma out there man, and whoevers doing this is gonna get assfucked...
----edit-----
I think, if darkstalkey knows the bastard who did this, he should expose him. Let the coward who hides behind preset fake e-mails be exposed....
I think I got one this morning. Must've deleted it.
Same here. They called me Flippy, ironically - my email address is the one username totally different, so it was obvious to me all they had done was find my usual name elsewhere on the net. Seeing I only post my email addy at here at NintendoHQ (http://www.nintendo.shorturl.com), and Rode had been having some problems, I figured they had just looked here. How very 'leet'.
QuoteSubj: Join us or FRY! (Peggie!)
Date: 27/06/2003 10:54:15 GMT Daylight Time
From: H4x0r3@hackerz.com
To: graalianht@aol.com
Sent from the Internet (Details)
Flippy,
W3 ar3z a b4nd 0f h4x0rz.
J01n us 0r FRY!
--H4x0r3
I also had the link reply thing, but I didn't bother investigating it on the off chance it might be something serious. I checked out where they registered their email, and it looks quite harmless (although the affliates bring some suspicion to mind).
Looks like pure idiocy to me.
As a MOD, I'm calling on EVERY ags'er to flood their e-mail telling them how lamer they really are.
C.
CJ -> Sorry, I deleted it. ::)
I wasn't bothered by it or anything. I thought it was funny.
But yeah, it's an evil thing to do.
Def -> I've still got my eye on you! ;)
edit: And I got a reply. Funny thing is I never actually sent that reply in the first place. HA!
Which means you gotta check all users that have been online (or looked at this topic) since Rode posted phoney reply.
sorry but i can't understand why you are even opening these emails.... come on guys it sez "hackerz" ffs its not going to be anything constructive is it? hide your emails and wait for the little shit to get bored because no one will play his stupid game, the fact you are kicking up a fuss is playing into his hands
Paranoia
just watch i'll have a hundred emails of him tomorrow! :-\
This is the header on mine Chris:
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Return-path: <sharp1@tonga.dnsrouter.com>
Envelope-to: junc@juncmodule.com
Delivery-date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:37:41 -0400
Received: from [216.180.242.202] (helo=tonga.dnsrouter.com)
   by server16.totalchoicehosting.com with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168)
   (Exim 3.36 #1)
   id 19VtQ5-0007Lr-00
   for junc@juncmodule.com; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:37:41 -0400
Received: from sharp1 by tonga.dnsrouter.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1)
   id 19VtQ5-0002Us-00
   for junc@juncmodule.com; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:37:41 -0400
To: junc@juncmodule.com
From: M4dM4n <M4dm4n@hackerz.com>
Subject: J0in US 0r FRY!!!
-:
-:
-:- ABUSE - COMPLAINTS - ABUSE -
-: To report Abuse please email
-: Abuse@sharpmail.co.uk
-: and quote - 12651125
-:- ABUSE - COMPLAINTS - ABUSE -
-:
-:
PMID: 12651125
X-Mailer: Sharp Mail v1.2
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------497C7E0F161397BEC1D86A56"
Message-Id: <E19VtQ5-0002Us-00@tonga.dnsrouter.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:37:41 -0400
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - tonga.dnsrouter.com
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - juncmodule.com
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32267 767] / [32267 767]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - tonga.dnsrouter.com
and the message source:
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-:- ABUSE - COMPLAINTS - ABUSE -
-: To report Abuse please email
-: Abuse@sharpmail.co.uk
-: and quote - 12651125
-:- ABUSE - COMPLAINTS - ABUSE -
-:
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PMID: 12651125
X-Mailer: Sharp Mail v1.2
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------497C7E0F161397BEC1D86A56"
Message-Id: <E19VtQ5-0002Us-00@tonga.dnsrouter.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:37:41 -0400
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - tonga.dnsrouter.com
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - juncmodule.com
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32267 767] / [32267 767]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - tonga.dnsrouter.com
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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<P>J0in US 0r FRY!</P>
<P>JUNK</P>
<P>h3h3h3h3h3!!!</P>
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The reason we "kicking up a fuss" is because it is very likely that it is a member of this board. If that is so I would very much like to see that member get banned. If it is just some lamer sending out random emails then I agree, there is no reason to pay attention to it. These emails are targeted at AGSers though. I pay for my bandwidth, if I can keep someone from abusing it...then I will.
later,
-junc
(http://www.sylpher.com/evenwolf/random/hax.gif)
No subject, just from this suspicious butcher character.
Ah, what's the use the person is probably going to register again under a new name.
edit- holly shit they are impersonating AGSers!
Aw, teh little amateur hackers are playing, how cute. Nobody's sent me an email, then again I have so many filters running that I'm not surprised.
Welll...
Someone who sent those must be stupid.
Someone who sent those must be a member of the boards.
Someone who sent those must have done something to prevent him/herself from beeing suspected of the prank.
Hackerz.com does have an e-mail service anyone can sign up for so I doubt they would need to edit the "from" field.
They probably used one of those "hacker manuals" because they didn't do anything significant and are behaving like script kiddies.
English is probably their second language because the grammar in the poem they posted on rodekill's page is awful even by my standards.
They are probably just lonely youths with no social skills as they posted their irc and e-mail adresses on the page they hacked(is that theire way of looking for fiends? Hmmm...)
They've done a very sloppy job.
I see a few patterns.
Checked my e-mail and found the two identical post reportings too.
We are watching you very carefully, pal.
Ah yeah, looks like they used an anonymous remailer. If anyone's bothered by it, report it to the abuse address in the message source that juncmodule posted (thanks for posting that).
Strangely I haven't had one of these e-mails, I feel left out ;)
Whoever is doing this must be smoking alot of pot.
/me rolls a joint
I didn't get any either. Emails, I mean.
(http://www.sylpher.com/evenwolf/random/hax2.gif)
Wow. Well I guess now is the time to say goodbye, gentlemen. I could be lowered into a vat of grease at any moment. But seriously, this last one is just a joke by one of you guys, right? I mean- hackers can't actually spell and make funny jokes like the emote thing... or is this some sort of new hacker? Hacker 2.0?
Check the source of that image Even. :) The little chicken that is. Probly from some forum somewhere, but still.
*winks at Rode*
Why do I never get these kind of emails! I want
to be fried too. Ah well, at least people think
I am a l33t h4x0r now. I feel so... leet...
Well, l33t-Def sent me another one.
I couldn't make out the gibberish though.
I'm sure they mentioned 'frying' at least once.
I'm jealous of Even. He got a chicken.
/me secretly hopes they will now send him a chicken.
Lol that email from 'Urklethon' is classic. If all hackers were that funny then I'm sure we'd be living in a utopia of happily haxoring each other right now.
Femme: for a minute there I thought you were profiling Kikme.
Hold on a second....
forgive me here, i've been gone this week, and I'm trying to piece this togethter by checkin out different threads.
is the only thing thats happening is AGSers getting weird 1337 spam messages? and what does kikeme have to do with any of this? or is it something else? enlighten me, for I am dumb.
I know its annoying getting e-mails like this, but...what if someone is scanning teh AGS forums, and is just being egged on by these threads? Maybe they'd get fed up if we didn't make a big deal of it, and just deleted it?
And a mod can get rid of this if he pleases, but even though i don't know kikme, i must say i'm starting to think he's the one behind it. :-\
Okay...
I admit it. I did it.
Okay, not really, but I haven't gotten any of these e-mails. But that is becuase I don't have my e-mail address availble. Hey, I'll bet it's DG!!!! He has a habit of doing these things like making up teh fake board members!!1!!!1 :)
Whoever this retard is he should be caught, whipped, beaten, flogged, tortured and then banned!!!!1!!1!
Panda: Somebody apparently is getting e-mails off this board and sending them crazy hackor e-mails.
How do we know that Kikme isn't doing this. No offense Kikme. :) After all, you ARE innocent until proven guilty.
okay.
thanks raggit. I guess Im still a little confused then why its such a big deal. we all get spam all the time. they arent damaging our computers. just ditch the email. its a pain, but I doubt this is the first time any of us got spam from sombody getting our email of teh forums
The e-mails have a somewhat threatening over tone. It's more like harrasment than regular spam.
ahhhh, well, thats different then.
carry on with your anger then folks
Quote from: Raggit on Sat 28/06/2003 22:29:43
Okay, not really, but I haven't gotten any of these e-mails. But that is becuase I don't have my e-mail address availble. Hey, I'll bet it's DG!!!! He has a habit of doing these things like making up teh fake board members!!1!!!1 :)
I'm threatning to hold a web forum that I moderate?
In other words, you think I don't have enough work on here and have to create some hacking threat for the others mods and me to show that we're actually doing something? ;D
And if I'm threatning the forum, shouldn't I include some ransom demands.
In that case, I want $500,000 in unmarked bills, a new Jaguar, a giant a baby bottle filled with milk, some nude pictures of Barbara Eden, some rainbow suspenders... :D
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How do we know that Kikme isn't doing this. No offense Kikme. :) After all, you ARE innocent until proven guilty.
He is innocent until proven guilty.
However, he is only one of a number of theories about this:
a) It's kikme pulling a prank
b) It's someone
c) They are real hackers who found this forum after hacking Rodekill's forum.
d) The e-mails are part of a spamming campaign for some kind of protection software and are therefore just a coincidence. (Right now, I think this is a very unlikely theory -- but I don't rule it out)
There's evidence to prove all four theories.
I really wonder why kikme is ever being considered. This looks like a far more complex prank then he has ever showed us he would be able to do.
I don't know...I thought he left. now, if somebody posted these things here on teh forum and left weird 1337 messages, I might be more inclinded to think it would be him...but my gut says its somebody older. I bet we dont know him
Typical boy who keeps crying wolf suspicions. I think these suspicions are fairly justified what with Hosamov forfeiting benefit of the doubt long ago.
It's just emails, this thread really should not cause fear or panic. Besides, worst case scenario- some websites can be remodeled. Change it back or leave it, either way- life goes on.
Quote from: DGMacphee on Sun 29/06/2003 02:21:34
c) They are real hackers who found this forum after hacking Rodekill's forum.
d) The e-mails are part of a spamming campaign for some kind of protection software and are therefore just a coincidence. (Right now, I think this is a very unlikely theory -- but I don't rule it out)
I don't think these e-mails are aprt of some scheme to get us to but protection software...It's just some dumbass randomly picking e-mails and harrassing them. I believe this since one of my e-mails came from a prank e-mail site....
I'm a little confused by the whole "why is everyone getting upset" thing. The point is, I DON'T get spam at that email address. This is the first time EVER. It's because I don't ever use that email for anything but forums and my website. I have a yahoo account for other things. I get about 50 crap emails a day in that account. The problem is that it's possibly a member abusing the board. I'm not upset about it because the email itself was just stupid. I'm only upset about misuse of this forum. I'm here to make games, not have games played on me :P. Besides this isn't SPAM, each one of these emails has been written directly at us. They are not bulk emails. There is a big difference.
eh,
-junc
Squink, while I understand your concern over the prank- the whole threat with porn and all that - let's calm down a degree if possible. Whoever is conducting the prank I doubt would appreciate being called a dumbass after all the hardwork he/she put into impressing us.
That's how I feel after that second email. Someone was really trying to be witty, and was seeking my attention. It's kind of touching in a sick, haxor sort of way.
Yea, I am all calmed down now...was when I wrote that post, but I'll tell ya, I was pretty bothered by it earlier....
But still, I stand by my dumbass title...er, claim....
Lets all be calm. OH WHAT THE HELL I WAS PROFILING KIKME! Yar ARGH! Sorry... It's just that... He came back in the middle of it all ranting that he was sent treatening e-mail and all the people sent that e-mail so far are significant people who made a few games or have been here for awhile. Rodekill, Squinky, Flippy_D,Evenwolf, Juncmodule and Andail... Somehow Kikme doesn't fit into that group. Why would someone dig up his e-mail from ages ago and harass him just for fun? He has a bad reputation and everyone harassed has a good one. Sorry Kikme. Sorry for calling you stupid. This whole thing has the feel of something you would do, it's not that I think it was you did it, but you are the prime suspect. I have a few other suspects too but they shall remain unnamed for now.
I just have a little question. Those of you who got the spam, did you ever post on rode's forum? It seems like the only ones getting the mails posted at his forum (although I don't know if junc ever posted there), which would make sense out of the whole "turf" intruding deal in an idiot hacker kind of way.
So, have any of you guys getting the mail not posted on rode's forum?
I haven't
Ahah! Look at the little red pony tailed detective we have here! He may be on to something, as I cannot deny having posted on that very turf! My very demise, let the pouring of the grease commence!
I believe I've posted there...not sure though....
I don't believe I ever have.
Honestly though, I don't think that's it. Each of the emails was customized in some way. I do believe that the "email person"/"rodekill.com hacker" may be the same person. They called me "junk" and asked Rode to design web pages and called him "Scumm"...even with a capital "S". Then again it could be very likely that it is just a regular member playing a joke (the emails part, not Rode's site).
Either way I would really like to know who reported my post to a moderator. I'm guessing that is the piece of trash that sent the emails. (<-- Evenwolf, notice how I pay attention to him! :P)
TeeHee,
-junc
Esseb, good theory.
Probably as an after-reaction. :)
However, it's best that people remain a little alert, even though I doubt hackers would hack the forum straight after warning us.
It's like the Bond villian telling 007 his plans for world domination right before he leaves him to die in a swimming pool filled with pirahnas.
Nevertheless, be a little alert just in case the forum ever does get hacked.
Quote from: Squinky on Sun 29/06/2003 03:36:47
Quote from: DGMacphee on Sun 29/06/2003 02:21:34
c) They are real hackers who found this forum after hacking Rodekill's forum.
d) The e-mails are part of a spamming campaign for some kind of protection software and are therefore just a coincidence. (Right now, I think this is a very unlikely theory -- but I don't rule it out)
I don't think these e-mails are aprt of some scheme to get us to but protection software...It's just some dumbass randomly picking e-mails and harrassing them. I believe this since one of my e-mails came from a prank e-mail site....
Like I said, it's a very slight possibility.
But I don't rule it out.
But also consider that it seems to be more than one 'dumbass' -- or someone registering multiple e-mail addresses.
Which is what makes me thinks it's just a prank too.
Then again, who knows?
Ok people, when I suggested kikme I was doing it semi tounge-in-cheek, since although it COULD be him, it's just as likely to be one of a hundred other people. So, sorry I didn't make myself clear at first.
Well, I apologize if they really have come here from my site, though I suppose there wasn't much that could be done.
I still think it's just some member being funny, though they may be pushing the joke a bit now.
Don't worry, Rodey.
I think the situation is fine now.
And it's not your fault in any way.
so, we have 3 possible situations so far...
1) The person has found the forum, and thought it would be fun to send strange 1337 e-mails to REGULAR MEMBERS.
2) Kikme has gotten bored, logged onto the forum, and sent 1337 e-mails. what makes this situation more likely than the last, is that its only REGULAR MEMBERS who have been getting the e-mails. Kikme obviously isn't a regular member, so how would the person have got his e-mail?
3) The person has gone onto the old forums, and found e-mails from there.
Whee, I got called significant.
Theories abound, eh? And yesssss, I think I have posted on RK's board once, regarding help for a day in the life. But if junc hasn't...
i never got an email and i posted there
and urklethon signed onto #ags and then left
just so you know
eric
who's irklethon?
Clean up time. Mystery solved. Yadda yadda.