MODS - Someone Spaming through p8nt ?

[Dskize]

i just recieved a ****ty spam email with a lot of p8nt's members email addresses on it I know its got nowt to do with the site
but i hate that kind of crap and i cant be the only one that recieved it. im not sure if this is even the correct place to post it and I apologize to the mods if this was not the correct way to draw theyre attention to it (or if they can even do anything about it ) I just wonderd what was going on

ta

 

[Baca Loco]

Thanks for the head's up. No doubt the gnomes will leap to the task immediately if not sooner.

 

[EyeFellOva]

Yeah, I got it too... someone been hacking the database? Hmmm.... Or floggin it to the highest bidder!

the jist of the e-mail is:
Subject: Re: Fwd: PLEEEEEEASE READ!!!! it was on the news! ASAP

Then there's a list of a shed load of P8 members and the rest of the e-mail is garbage with one line saying: Note: forwarded message attached

The second time I got it, it had an attachment, I scanned it and it's not a virus, just a text version of a heavily forwarded message, antoher one of the "forward this and microsoft will send you $xxxxx" boll0cks.

Looks harmless, and I've scanned it from every angle But the worrying thing is how they got the list of e-mails!

 

[Bolter]

Im a complete noob at this, and you can slap me in the face with a wet haddock if Im wrong, but isnt it called phishing?

 

[EyeFellOva]

*SLAP*

Nah, phishing is when some african guy e-mails you telling you that he has £50m stuck in some dead guys account and needs you to help get it out. You give them some money for administration fees and they scam you into paying more and more.

Another twist i winning the lottery in some country that you've never even heard of

 

[John C]

Bolter is right...?

I thought phishing was where you send out emails conning people into giving up their passwords/cc numbers etc.





What you described is a 419 scam.

 

[duffistuta]

Our server was under a UDP DOS flood attack a week or so ago. Thankfully our server host has a high level of network/server security measures in place, therefore they detected the attack and took appropriate action. Whether this is connected I don't know, as the head gnome is currently on holiday, but I've asked someone to look into it...

 

[Markie C]

but how did they get our email addys is there any thing to worry about

 

[Collier]

Originally posted by duffistuta
Our server was under a UDP DOS flood attack a week or so ago. Thankfully our server host has a high level of network/server security measures in place, therefore they detected the attack and took appropriate action. Whether this is connected I don't know, as the head gnome is currently on holiday, but I've asked someone to look into it...

Unlikely I'd of thought, a UDP DOS (DDOS) Does what it says on the tin, it clogs the server up with useless requests and makes access to the server impossible, with that in mind if the server is unavailable it's not gonna make it easy to jack it.

 

[EyeFellOva]

Bolter is right...?

Originally posted by John C
I thought phishing was where you send out emails conning people into giving up their passwords/cc numbers etc.





What you described is a 419 scam.

Oh yeah! Shoulda spotted that one

These e-mails are just chain spam crap

Unfortunately, DDOS attacks can also cause Firewalls to crash allowing access to back end systems. It's rare that this happens as the server usually crashes well before that time.