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A funny (but real) story for XMAS
From: "Tri Huynh" <trihuynh () zeeup com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:40:38 -0800
Hi list, One day when I checked my email, I received many emails from a company named wickedservers.com (which is belong to another company called IOport Technologies, LLC). Here is one of their emails : " Your e-mail has been received. A ticketnumber has been created. Would you like to correspond about this matter, please always use this ticketnumber in your subject field: [ts #26205] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have a problem with your server, please make sure you have specified the following information in your e-mail: - Server IP and port - FTP Username - Detailed information about the problem Without the first two, we cannot solve the issue. Please send the information in an email with subject [ts #26205]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have a problem, make sure you have tried the following: - server restart. This can be done via a RCON QUIT, or a ADMIN QUIT for most games. Correctly configured servers will return within 30 seconds. YOU CAN ALSO RESTART BY GOING TO HTTP://<SERVERIP>:20000 LOGIN WITH FTP USER AND PASS - check the server logs when these are available (server.log or ucc.log). Information in these files can be valuable to solve a problem. - checked the forums at http://forum.gameservers.net. Most questions are already solved by others......blah blah blah" It looks like somebody using my email to register their service because I didn't register or even known such a service (I always have myself to be the victim so I can investigate cybercrime easily). By looking at the email, I could tell that the bad guy also generated a customer support request. I decided to go to the company website to contact their staff. One the website, they also supports "live help" under the form of chatting. And here is our conversation: ** You are now speaking with Gunner, Support. ** Gunner : Hello trihuynh : hi trihuynh : my email is trihuynh () zeeup com trihuynh : and today i start receiving email form you guys trihuynh : but i don't know anything or register anything with your service trihuynh : i want to know what is going on Gunner : That was an e-mail glitch that is now corrected. Thank you for the notification. trihuynh : ???? trihuynh : how comes my email receive your info ? trihuynh : is somebody using my personal info to register here ? Gunner : that I do not know trihuynh : can you check who is registered with the email: trihuynh () zeeup com Gunner : I don't have that information, sorry trihuynh : so what i should do now ? trihuynh : somebody uses my email to register here Gunner : The e-mail problem you mentioned was corrected. trihuynh : but...how can you guys have my emails ? Gunner : you will no longer get e-mails Gunner : that I do not know trihuynh : how can you do not know ? Gunner : Our mail server was compromised Gunner : and is now fixed Gunner : problem is gone Gunner : thank you trihuynh : i still don't understand though trihuynh : how can you have my email Gunner : that's go, all you need to know is it is now fixed Gunner : That's ok** trihuynh : what is the company address ? Gunner : it's on our website Your party has left this session. <---- He quits chatting with me It looks like this comapany doesn't give a damn about information privacy, and there is also a possibility that they are the spammers too. If you guys have have any info about this company, please contact trihuynh () zeeup com and i love to gather more evidences about their privacy malpractices. Trihuynh Sentryunion "Join www.osvdb.org to make a better non-corporated vulnerability database since CERT sucks ! " _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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