'WELCOME TO*HDBITS.ORG' scam email - beware

Yay, another scam email from Elyas Forst ([email protected]), like this one reported earlier!

Subject: Hdbits.org Invite

[FONT=&quot]WELCOME TO HDBITS.ORG[/FONT]



[FONT=&quot]Hey, I have a favor to ask of you. I have got a limited amount of invites to hdbits.org so the first people to accept my invite to lockerz will receive an invite to hdbits untill i run out (mind you i will get more after i run out). i will send you an invite to lockerz, which is a cool FREE site where you earn PTZ and you spend the PTZ on FREE items like imacs, ipods, games, gaming consoles, and designer clothing. just follow the link in the invite and make an account(real or fake name, gender, and zip code), and they dont require any other personal info. Be quick and an hdbits invite has your name on it.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Thanks[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]PS, anyone that offers you bonus points for signing up is lying, it is impossible![/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]and if you are already a member of lockerz, sorry... i cant promise you anything unless nobody accepts my invites after a few days[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Check your junkmail folders cause the invite will be sent within the next 10 mins[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I will know who the first responders to my invites are. :) GOOD LUCK[/FONT]
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Btw, these scams are NOT sent through the database of a defunct site! It is from a LIVE site operating right now!

I know this because this scam above came through an email address of mine which I only created VERY recently (like, a week ago) and changed some of my torrent/pirate site's accounts to. I'll see if I can narrow it down, we should work out what site is being abused and everyone leave that site or talk to the staff!
 
Ok, well:

I've made a total list of possibles, and it could ONLY be one of the sites which I recently changed my email address with. This is an exact list which I can number, because it's in my records from just last week.

This list comprises 59 absolute maximum possible sites - but most of em were like digg or imdb or photobucket etc...so, narrowing it down: 26 are pirate or pirate-related, but none of em are english-speaking/mainstream private trackers - that's why you guys haven't received it. They're all basically public type sites like warez/emule forums etc.

Except for one. which stands out like a sore thumb. And I think it's the culprit. It's a bt-related site, and yes, connected to private trackers. But I don't want to name the site yet (as we should confirm and gather more info before planning, er, course of action :naughty:). What should I do?

Well I suppose I'll start by PM'ing others who got the BITMETV scam and see if they're regged at this site also...
 
spammer-huh- said:
Hey, here ya go... avaloncraven wasn't totally truthful in the original thread about me... i emailed him and hopefully he will come out truthful. As for the rest of you, you can stop searching. Here is all you need to know:

To all of you who i have "scammed"
I found your emails on a public site, "inviteshare" to which you registered and posted your email addresses expecting to receive invites from people willing to give away invitations. What do you expect...? I wouldn't call myself a scammer, more of a microscopic spammer, as i sent this to about only a few email addresses, of which most were spam addresses because people knew they were posting there emails for public to view. so all in all, you were not smart enough to use a spam address and you were likely too late to respond to receive one of my invites... Plus, when i sent this to 20 people, i obviously dont have 20 invites to the specific bittorrent site... To those out there that did receive an invite from me, please show yourself to prove my legitimacy!!!

I find this quite funny that you are all acting as if i wanted to trade an invite to a stupid bittorrent site for your credit card number... I never pressured anyone to join lockerz from my invite, i just layed out the details and said good luck. make a lockerz account or not, you still have your credit card, your computer, your everything! WHATS THE BIG DEAL?!?!?
sorry that you never responded fast enough for an invite.



I tried a simmillar post in the previous thread but it was removed and my account disabled so now i am here... hopefully someone can quote this or keep a record of it before it is removed.
THanks
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Yes the site I concluded was inviteshare. It seems it was you then.

I can't believe they list emails in public there. Then again only noobs would even sign up to a rubbish site like this in the first place.

I signed up 3 years ago (I never got any invites though :rolleyes:) and recently was looking through my past records of sites I've signed up to before, and changed the email at this site as a preliminary step before intending to getting the account deleted...After this incident i REALLY want to have my account deleted off there. :/...though there's a way to remove your email off the public lists so that's good...but I've PM'd three supposed admins of the site and the contact form, with no response...seems one would have to go so far as contact techcrunch site staff. I wish they just shut it down, no one even runs it, by the looks of it...they just keep it running it on their techcrunch server. maybe it generates more ads than it costs to run it.

Funny ending to the story: I still haven't gotten into hdbits all these years :P...
 
sooooo, no harm done then =)
Lesson of the day: If you dont want spam dont post email address in public viewable places, and if you do post email address, dont complain about spam...

(and back to spaming I go):sly::naughty: (time for a free ipad):whistling
JK
 
Hey, here ya go... avaloncraven wasn't totally truthful in the original thread about me... i emailed him and hopefully he will come out truthful. As for the rest of you, you can stop searching. Here is all you need to know:

To all of you who i have "scammed"
I found your emails on a public site, "inviteshare" to which you registered and posted your email addresses expecting to receive invites from people willing to give away invitations. What do you expect...? I wouldn't call myself a scammer, more of a microscopic spammer, as i sent this to about only a few email addresses, of which most were spam addresses because people knew they were posting there emails for public to view. so all in all, you were not smart enough to use a spam address and you were likely too late to respond to receive one of my invites... Plus, when i sent this to 20 people, i obviously dont have 20 invites to the specific bittorrent site... To those out there that did receive an invite from me, please show yourself to prove my legitimacy!!!

I find this quite funny that you are all acting as if i wanted to trade an invite to a stupid bittorrent site for your credit card number... I never pressured anyone to join lockerz from my invite, i just layed out the details and said good luck. make a lockerz account or not, you still have your credit card, your computer, your everything! WHATS THE BIG DEAL?!?!?
sorry that you never responded fast enough for an invite.



I tried a simmillar post in the previous thread but it was removed and my account disabled so now i am here... hopefully someone can quote this or keep a record of it before it is removed.
THanks
 
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