Spam/fraud from "user" purebot?

bbanelli · Post by **bbanelli** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 8:29 am

I guess I'm not the only one that got it in my PM, but except some twisted personal agenda, who would have any use from stealing my (our) PureBasic account data?

wilbert · Post by **wilbert** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 8:33 am

No, you are not the only one.
The link in it is to the purebasic.ga domain.

Kwai chang caine · Post by **Kwai chang caine** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 8:41 am

Yes even me i have one, sure someone who don't know that KCC is the worst programmer of the west

I have sending a MP at Fred before see this thread

Post by **Fred** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 8:42 am

Yes, it's a fishing site, don't enter any identifiant here. Real news are only available on http://www.purebasic.com site, don't fall in this trap.

Fangbeast · Post by **Fangbeast** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 8:49 am

Yes, I just got one too. Endlessly amused me, especially since I am studying hard these days and need amusement.

Kwai chang caine · Post by **Kwai chang caine** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 9:59 am

This bot not know where it is ...
This forum and his users, it's the better place to found millions of neurons and mega brains....

I don't think it have a good chance here for have clients, because even me, i'm not falling in the trap, it's a sign no ???

bbanelli · Post by **bbanelli** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 10:00 am

Fred, why don't you report this one on: http://www.dot.ga/en/reportabuse.html ?

And once again, I'm not a big fan of conspiracy theories, but PB's user base and platform is rather small for such targeted and dedicated attack? Or am I wrong?

PureFox · Post by **PureFox** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 10:40 am

I've just had a PM from 'Ered', who apparently is the latest member of the forum, offering me PureBasic 5.55 and new SpiderBasic!

It looks like he or she may be targeting new members.

Needless to say I assumed it was a phishing attack and haven't clicked on the links given.

Dude · Post by **Dude** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 11:02 am

I just reported "purebasic.ga" to Google as a scam site, so hopefully unaware users will get a phishing warning when they try to visit it.

TI-994A · Post by **TI-994A** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 11:47 am

Dude wrote:I just reported "purebasic.ga" to Google as a scam site...

Just did the same with the registrar, freenom.com, through their abuse and copyright channels. Apparently, the domain name is a free-to-use registration, so it shouldn't be too difficult to shut it down.

Let's hope.

TI-994A · Post by **TI-994A** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 3:20 pm

It appears that the DNS entry for the domain name has been removed and the site is no longer reachable.

All's well with the world again.

Post by **Fred** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 4:42 pm

Great !

tj1010 · Post by **tj1010** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 9:29 pm

It was advertising a 6.0 invite in my case. Interesting someone would want to include a relatively small programming community in a phishing campaign.. This screams noob botnet owner..

Tenaja · Post by **Tenaja** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 12:32 am

tj1010 wrote:It was advertising a 6.0 invite in my case. Interesting someone would want to include a relatively small programming community in a phishing campaign.. This screams noob botnet owner..

Or a hater.

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