Scratch

bananaman114 wrote:

Maybe there isn't even a hacker, maybe somebody using a slight misspelling of the help email?

That's what I've been saying! Finally someone who isn't panicking about nothing 

samurai768 wrote:

bananaman114 wrote:

Maybe there isn't even a hacker, maybe somebody using a slight misspelling of the help email?

That's what I've been saying! Finally someone who isn't panicking about nothing 

Heh, I'm only even on this threads to be able to say "I was there" after.

Let's just do what we did in the 10' troll attack- hang on this thread trying to get people to calm down while letting it pass by.

SOMELIA.

Listen to Cheddergirl, she's giving you advice. Stop freaking out about something that's not going to brutally effect your life and listen to her. Nothing's happened and you're  acting like Kazakhstan deployed war heads on your city!

Last edited by J0j2 (2011-06-27 19:00:06)

bananaman114 wrote:

samurai768 wrote:

bananaman114 wrote:

Maybe there isn't even a hacker, maybe somebody using a slight misspelling of the help email?

That's what I've been saying! Finally someone who isn't panicking about nothing 

Heh, I'm only even on this threads to be able to say "I was there" after.

Let's just do what we did in the 10' troll attack- hang on this thread trying to get people to calm down while letting it pass by.

If the Hacker was trolling us, s/he'd want us to be panicking. Staying calm thwarts it.

JJROCKER wrote:

What happened? There are no hackers.

Yes there are... I have several emails from my friends asking why they sent me so many emails full of spam... Or worse. Also I had a long lecture from my dad about impersonating people and such, which I answered at the end: What are you talking about? Also my computer is infected.

If this is what happens when a troll sends an email, what happens to you when you spill a can of soda?

J0j2 wrote:

If this is what happens when a troll sends an email, what happens to you when you spill a can of soda?

I say, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I just wasted a good can of soda!"
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And scratch_yoshi, that's what I got from the last I.P. to access my email.

We're on to something.

somelia wrote:

bananaman114 wrote:

somelia wrote:

No, I copied and pasted it into Microsoft Word. It is indeed the Scratch Team.

But that's nothing to worry about. They're at MIT! They can fix this! Just wait. Don't panic anymore.

Pasting it into Word proves it's the ST how?

Anyway, that's what I've been telling you somelia. Staying calm thwarts it.
Stay calm. Just CHILL.

Spell check.

I spaced it out. And in Microsoft Word "l" doensn't look like a capital i.

...
  I see.
That is kinda wierd.
If only I were a retired mod, then there would be no 60 second rule 

Anyway, what cheddar said.
From now on, ditto what cheddar said.

Last edited by bananaman114 (2011-06-27 19:03:27)

cheddargirl wrote:

somelia wrote:

samurai768 wrote:

That's what I've been saying! Finally someone who isn't panicking about nothing 

No, I copied and pasted it into Microsoft Word. It is indeed the Scratch Team.

But that's nothing to worry about. They're at MIT! They can fix this! Just wait. Don't panic anymore.

People send e-mail messages in another person's name all the time (a very good example is a forum system which is capable of sending e-mails if it has e-mail capability). I think this is what we have here.

That[s why I'm insistent on finding the IP address. If it's traced to someone here on the site, then the account owners associated with that IP address are contacted.

Other time, I'm very tempted to call this some pretty elaborate hoax (especially considering no one from the Scratch Team has e-mailed me a spam message yet and the Scratch Team is aware of my e-mail address).

I'm mostly receiving emails from waveOSBeta.

somelia wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

somelia wrote:

No, I copied and pasted it into Microsoft Word. It is indeed the Scratch Team.

But that's nothing to worry about. They're at MIT! They can fix this! Just wait. Don't panic anymore.

People send e-mail messages in another person's name all the time (a very good example is a forum system which is capable of sending e-mails if it has e-mail capability). I think this is what we have here.

That[s why I'm insistent on finding the IP address. If it's traced to someone here on the site, then the account owners associated with that IP address are contacted.

Other time, I'm very tempted to call this some pretty elaborate hoax (especially considering no one from the Scratch Team has e-mailed me a spam message yet and the Scratch Team is aware of my e-mail address).

I'm mostly receiving emails from waveOSBeta.

Then we should be worring about wave, not the Scratch Team that wasn't hacked?

cheddargirl wrote:

scratch_yoshi wrote:

Oh! I was using the wrong thing! Here:
74.208.147.114
74.208.13.17

Definitely not the Scratch Team, because that's not the correct IP. Finally, there's something we can work with.

O_O

This isn't good. But you're right - that happened to my email last year. No one hacked it - they just sent it from my email's name.

So weird though. Who would do this and why?

somelia wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

scratch_yoshi wrote:

Oh! I was using the wrong thing! Here:
74.208.147.114
74.208.13.17

Definitely not the Scratch Team, because that's not the correct IP. Finally, there's something we can work with.

O_O

This isn't good. But you're right - that happened to my email last year. No one hacked it - they just sent it from my email's name.

So weird though. Who would do this and why?

Who knows?

Commercial spammers do something similar - I get e-mail messages from friends but it's all commercial spam sent without my friend's knowledge; basically, if you have the e-mail address of a person, there's always the possibility of someone using it to sends spam of some sort, no real hacking required.

I think this is what happened here. If it was a serious hacker, I'm surprised they didn't send e-mails en masse.

Last edited by cheddargirl (2011-06-27 19:10:44)

cheddargirl wrote:

somelia wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

Definitely not the Scratch Team, because that's not the correct IP. Finally, there's something we can work with.

O_O

This isn't good. But you're right - that happened to my email last year. No one hacked it - they just sent it from my email's name.

So weird though. Who would do this and why?

Who knows?

Commercial spammers do something similar - I get e-mail messages from friends but it's all commercial spam sent without my friend's knowledge; basically, if you have the e-mail address of a person, there's always the possibility of someone using it to sends spam of some sort, no real hacking required.

I think this is what happened here. If it was a serious hacker, I'm surprised they didn't send e-mails en masse.

Huh. A Forums Esclusive hacker impersonator- and he actually got us (for the most part). Hilarious.