URGENT Beware Of People Trying To Register You To This Forum

by Steven Wagenheim

Posted: 15 years ago 18 replies

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I just had the scariest thing happen.

I just received a validation to become a member of this forum.

It was my name, but spelled a little differently. It also was sent to an email
address of mine that I never use.

My guess is, somebody found the email address, decided to try to sign up
under it, thinking that they could possibly redirect the email to their
email program (I'm guessing here) and then sign in under my name (though
not exactly the one I am using here but close enough) and cause who knows
what kind of trouble.

If you receive and email asking to verify your forum registration, make sure.

1. You actually did do this.
2. It is for the email address that you used.

I am going to forward the email to the help desk. I doubt that they will be
able to trace who did this, but it's worth a shot anyway.

Please...be careful.

#beware #forum #people #register #urgent

Sean A McAlister 15 years ago

Thanks for the heads up Steven.....

I guess my master plan is shot down the tubes now.

Highest Regards,
Sean
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Andy Fletcher 15 years ago

Thanks for the heads up Steven.
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Shakul 15 years ago

Hello Steven,

Thanks for letting us know.

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findtips 15 years ago

Thanks Steven. I've already had 3 people (spammers/scammers) PM me with offers since I joined this site only a few weeks ago. When I go in to check the PM's, I see the user is banned. So that's their game. I just wonder... how does admin catch them so fast? If the message is in PM, how do they see it? There are thousands of members here so I can't imagine that one of the dummy admin accounts will PM'd each time.
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- Steven Wagenheim 15 years ago
  
  Just so you know, I heard from the help desk and I wasn't the only one that
  this happened to.
  
  The accounts have been deleted so thank goodness they're on top of this.
  
  A testament to how well this forum is run and kept clean.
  
  Thanks Allen and Admins.
  
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Star Riley 15 years ago

amazing first spam bots no forum hijack bots!
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Bev Clement 15 years ago

A few of us have had this, it is from someone who banned in the past. Not only that but they have tried to get into our accounts by trying to reset our passwords.

I keep getting emails to confirm my account. The giveaway, apart from not having set up the account, is that he spelt my name incorrectly.

For those who wonder who it is, think of the person who registered an account and pretended to be Big Mike, the same person who had avatars that were offensive.
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- Fairlinks 15 years ago
  
  Thanks for the information
  
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Cherilyn Woodhouse 15 years ago

Had the same thing - I thought it was someone else, until I received a threatening message through one of the forms on my website. Then I quickly figured out whom it was.

Thanks for letting me know I wasn't alone! I confirmed it and changed the password, and sent in a support ticket of my own.

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mikecorp 15 years ago

Thanks for the information, even tho i just registered a few days ago.
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AtomicFlipper 15 years ago

Interesting, you say that you never use the email they used to signup, if so how did they get it? If they have actually gone ahead and scanned the email server then I would say this is a deliberate attack on you.

I would maybe even suggest that this person knows you personally.

Thanks for the heads up though.
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traces2757 15 years ago

Funny you should say that, Steven. In the past couple of days I have gotten 3 confirmations for forums that I didn't register for, and it has really been freaking me out. I'm not sure what's going on, but of course it's making me worry.
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- Tony Dean 15 years ago
  
  Strange world!
  
  I get emails telling me I have a 'friend' who is asking me to accept on social network sites I have never heard or visited!
  
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  Vikuna2009+ 15 years ago
  
  Same here and once I click, you have to pay to find out who your "friend" is :confused:!!! I thought "friends" were FREE ????? Guess not any more...
  
  Originally Posted by Tony Dean
  
  Strange world!
  
  I get emails telling me I have a 'friend' who is asking me to accept on social network sites I have never heard or visited!
  
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elle56 15 years ago

Thanks for the heads up.

What do these people get from doing all these annoying things? Don't they have anything better to do than troll in this forum?
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- John Durham 15 years ago
  
  Thanks Steven,
  
  Been bitten by that sort of thing before. Trust me, it ain't pretty.
  
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MaggieDavid 15 years ago

Hey Steven,

Many thanks for letting us know.

Much appreciated.
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megaforcetkd 15 years ago

Thanks for the heads up - people are sneaky these days...
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hangtimenino 15 years ago

thank you for sharing this. I think people will do anything, just to make some money, or to stay ahead of the game, or even just for fun.
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