Account locked?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by setishock

I finally got "The Email". Da Da Daaaaaaaaa
Curious though, (Cue creepy organ music) what are they really after? There's no credit card info here. Even if there was and they got my numbers, it's only got 5 bucks on it. Don't spend it all in one place...

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.

[setishock]

Interesting. Thanks.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by Knightmane

When I see a strange IP address included in an email from vb.org, I run the IP address through http://network-tools.com/ to find out what country the attempt came from.

I got several emails this week regarding the attempted logins and most of the IP addresses came from either Asia, China, or India. Just letting you know.

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

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

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.

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.

[JeffyJoe]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

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

:-)

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by JeffyJoe

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!

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Atakan KOC

What is happening?

The world is ending, apparently :erm:


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

[setishock]

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

[adom7]

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 :down:

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by BigJimTheLug

For some reason, vbulletin.org's default password creating algorithm only creates passwords with numbers.

Ummm, not sure what are you referring to here ?