My guess is one of the following-

1) Spam
2) Licensed account to download all modification for pirate use / trade with other pirates
3) Looking for members who may use the same password here as on their own websites or vb.com- but it would still take effort to figure out their forums or accounts unless they posted links or had links in the signature or in the homepage link in user cp.

Interesting. Thanks.

It's not even relevant really anymore, where a given IP might resolve to - since they're so easy to spoof now.

And I would bet the bolded is the biggest one.

It's why when I see accounts posting that were long dormant until the posts, I get suspicious.

im one of those max
i have not logged in here for a few years now, and got flooded with emails recently saying locked out bad pass attempt..
i just changed my pass and checked my username for new posts, a few mins ago and there were none, so all is good

:-)

I don't get suspicious when I see dormant accounts reply to threads such as this, or create threads such as this. It's expected, happens every time there is a brute force attack.

It's some time after, when you'll see a few long dormant accounts here and there, posting weird stuff and making strange requests.

You and several others though ARE proof that email prompting does work for getting the activity up! :D

The world is ending, apparently :erm:


(it could at least wait until my holiday is over)

Or until the rain quits so I could fly my quads and hex one more time.

Its happening to me as well.
I've had 100 emails since morning. IP location shows all from China

The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 117.174.231.191
The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 183.220.197.192

I think that it is a bot or something and its gonna find my password soon :eek: :down:

Ummm, not sure what are you referring to here ?