Warning - Spoof e-mails...

It appears that someone is targeting talkfreelance with mail bombs to the admins (i've had over 8,000 now....) and also spoof e-mails from my address to members telling them they are owned.

I did not send these.....

Regards.

Robson we know. I didnt get any but if I did I know you didnt do it. Its just another hacker whos jeolous of your big forum. Do you have any enemies or enimie groups or forums?

Regards,
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I saw your post on WHT about it. I thought it was rather odd for a company like Site5 to do that

I would be interested to hear how they got members email addresses? Has the forum database been compromised in some fashion?

No the forum database has not been compromised. As far as i'm aware, it's only one member and the admins who have recieved e-mails. The member who recieved an e-mail is a friend of mine and it was rather insultive.

It must be somebody against you the admins and that member. Have site5 trace all hits to the site and resolve each and contact each of them.

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I received one of these emails also.

Oh I might have. I use my spam email on forum. Meaning I use the email for all registration stuff. I will check it.

Someone just alerted our management team to this topic. I would like to assure all members that Site5 (the folks at the real Site5) have absolutely NO involvement in this act.

We intend on working with the forum moderators to track down the responsible party and provide the authorities with evidence required to prosecute. We've been in contact with our legal counsel this morning and have gone over the matter with them.

Moderators or affected membbers, please feel free to contact us at management@site5.com with any information you may have regarding this crime.

To everyone affected: I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and hope that this has not in any way affected your opinion of Site5.com or the people employed here.

Take care, and have a great day!

Matt Lightner
CEO, Site5.com
http://www.site5.com

Shame to hear about this, glad to see Site5 are taking it very serious though

I agree. Would be cool to see on the news "Hacker Caught Bombing Talkfreelance" "Site5 came to the rescue and caught the criminal" hey its free advertising hehe.