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    Post by Shadow Thu Dec 26, 2013 1:31 pm

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    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:
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    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


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    Post by Guest Fri Dec 27, 2013 6:54 am

    Thanks for information, is very usefull
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    Post by help@bearvillecamp Fri Dec 27, 2013 8:48 am

    Thank u for letting me know
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    Post by Help@Bearville Fri Dec 27, 2013 8:54 am

    Thank you ButterCup (:
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    Post by MissUrsh Fri Dec 27, 2013 10:24 am

    Thanks for letting us know. Smile
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    Post by HowlingStar Wed Jan 01, 2014 3:28 am

    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. :/
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    Post by Ape Wed Jan 01, 2014 3:19 pm

    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



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    Post by Van-Helsing Wed Jan 01, 2014 3:52 pm

    Thank you very much Buttercup

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    Post by Shek Thu Jan 02, 2014 4:09 am

    Uau... Thanks Buttercup!
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    Post by LanaBaby0 Fri Jan 03, 2014 3:31 pm

    thanks Buttercup.
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    Post by WinxClubMagic4EVER Sat Jan 04, 2014 5:38 am

    Thanks for the info, Buttercup!
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    Post by Oldcrow Mon Jan 06, 2014 10:59 pm

    Doesn't matter how much security you have, the spammers will still sneak in..
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    Post by AngiRique Wed Jan 08, 2014 2:51 pm

    Thank you for the information ♥
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    Post by Toot Fri Jan 10, 2014 3:41 am

    I think someone has used an email to get into my admin panel
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    Post by cassini Thu Jan 16, 2014 7:17 pm

    Thanks Buttercup  Smile  Not received any but will keep extra vigilant
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    Post by Mary. Thu Jan 16, 2014 9:18 pm

    Thank you!
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    Post by luiz1877 Fri Jan 17, 2014 3:18 am

    Thanks. I'll make them buy me credits first then give them the wrong password & ban them.
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    Post by ctrr03 Tue Jan 21, 2014 1:42 am

    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.

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