Beware of Tricky Email

[Reycer]

Today I got an email that looked just like it came from Vbulletin. However, it is not. Here is the email that I received. Be wary, I wouldn't click on any link.

Hello everyone.

As some of you may know, three large vBulletin modification sites have been attacked recently and may be down for some time. I'd like to take this time to introduce our new website to you. It is a full vBulletin modifications site which can grow even larger with your help.

So don't hold back, come join us and help us build our community even bigger.

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We hope to see you all there soon!

vNulletin Staff

[peugeot405]

Originally Posted by Reycer

Today I got an email that looked just like it came from Vbulletin. However, it is not. Here is the email that I received. Be wary, I wouldn't click on any link.

Hello everyone.

As some of you may know, three large vBulletin modification sites have been attacked recently and may be down for some time. I'd like to take this time to introduce our new website to you. It is a full vBulletin modifications site which can grow even larger with your help.

So don't hold back, come join us and help us build our community even bigger.

URL REMOVED

We hope to see you all there soon!

vNulletin Staff

I recieved this mail as well and blocked it.

It's sad to see a nice piece of software abused this way!!

[vijayninel]

I also got it .. I laughed at the name "******" and paid the site a visit just because of the funny name. However there wasnt much activity there.

I wonder where they got my e-mail address from. It's not publicly available in many places. It has surely been leaked from some forum associated with vBulletin/forum administration.

[AuroraStorm]

Yeah I got that too! I'm glad I didn't click the link...

"*******" That's funny...

vijayninel, a few years ago I purchased a few exotic skins for my board - I honestly can't remember the name of the creator (if I look deeper, I'm sure I'll figure it out) but I'm about 99.9% sure that he in turn sold my email to others...for a few years, I got spam from Arabic-language sites. I'm saying this because the email address that the +++++++++ spam used is the one I use for spam when I don't want my real email used...my vBulletin email wasn't hit with this...

[Sage Knight]

HAHAHHAHA.

******, good one.

[Big Al]

Thanks for the heads up.
It is a shame that some lowlifes try to impersonate others to cheat with and a shame that some people actually support these scammers on their websites.

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Zone: com
ISP: Unknown
Organization: Unknown
IP Address: 128.204.202.130
IP Hostname: hosted-by.dotvps.net
IP Country: United States United States (US)
Google Page Rank: 0
Alexa Rank: 27237133
Domain Created: 2012-04-18 (3 months ago)

[DirtRider]

Nope did not get it

[setishock]

Didn't get it either. And seems the link has gone south also.

[BirdOPrey5]

Linking to Pirate/Warez sites is NOT ALLOWED. Links/domains removed.

You are giving them more publicity then they could otherwise have hoped to have.