Warning: Fake & malicious messages

by **Shadow** Thu 26 Dec 2013 - 14:31

Warning: Fake & malicious messages

Dear members,

Despites all security systems installed in Forumotion forums, some malicious people have not other ways to achieve your forum than using ruse Evil or Very Mad

The usual way is fishing via fake Forumotion pages (Utilities page access for example) or malicious emails sent to the founder or admin. Those emails promise some maintenance, updates or credits in exchange for your password and Id if your forum!!!! What the fuck ?!?

One example:
Warning: Fake & malicious messages Fake_m10

Neither Forumotion nor The Staff will contact you and ask for your login. Indeed, our technicians don't need your password & id to perform a maintenance page or solve a technical problem because they directly work on our databases.
For credits, there are only three way to obtain them:
- Buy credits through your admin panel
- Get free credits thanks to your forum activity. The information is available on the homepage of the admin panel
- Win credits thanks to contests, tutorials, video, banners,...

Forumotion never sends any emails to get password & id whatever the reason. Be careful when receiving those type of requests.

We condemn these malicious practices and we'll not hesitate to contact authorities.

Thanks for your understanding

Regards

Buttercup

A ForuMotion Important Announcement

by Guest Fri 27 Dec 2013 - 7:54

Thanks for information, is very usefull

by help@bearvillecamp Fri 27 Dec 2013 - 9:48

Thank u for letting me know

by Help@Bearville Fri 27 Dec 2013 - 9:54

Thank you ButterCup (:

by MissUrsh Fri 27 Dec 2013 - 11:24

Thanks for letting us know. Smile

by HowlingStar Wed 1 Jan 2014 - 4:28

Yeah! My admin team and I recieved this message as well. It's a bit concerning that people would actually try to scam us. I knew right away it was a scam, but, other people may not have. I hope no one fell for it.

by **Ape** Wed 1 Jan 2014 - 16:19

Thank you for the update on that buttercup i had some thing like this some time ago but i know that FM don't send that sort of thing out to the admin's, and nore do they need to.

But thank you for the heads up Wink

by Van-Helsing Wed 1 Jan 2014 - 16:52

Thank you very much Buttercup

Best Regards,
Dark-Avenger

by Shek Thu 2 Jan 2014 - 5:09

Uau... Thanks Buttercup!

by LanaBaby0 Fri 3 Jan 2014 - 16:31

thanks Buttercup.

by WinxClubMagic4EVER Sat 4 Jan 2014 - 6:38

Thanks for the info, Buttercup!

by Oldcrow Mon 6 Jan 2014 - 23:59

Doesn't matter how much security you have, the spammers will still sneak in..
Ron..

by AngiRique Wed 8 Jan 2014 - 15:51

Thank you for the information ♥

by Toot Fri 10 Jan 2014 - 4:41

I think someone has used an email to get into my admin panel

by cassini Thu 16 Jan 2014 - 20:17

Thanks Buttercup Smile

Not received any but will keep extra vigilant

by Mary. Thu 16 Jan 2014 - 22:18

Thank you!

by luiz1877 Fri 17 Jan 2014 - 4:18

Thanks. I'll make them buy me credits first then give them the wrong password & ban them.

by ctrr03 Tue 21 Jan 2014 - 2:42

Thank you Buttercup. Forumotion is no different from any of the other online sites when people try to phish your information. Never click on links and never give out your private information. Doing so is only asking for trouble.