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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.

But what about that email that three people (me, Scratch_Yoshi, and Miss_Webgal) recieved that said that DaGamez would take over scratch? The peson is probably using this trick to prank all of us.

bananaman114 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

somelia wrote:

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.

The process is a heck of a lot easier than it looks. I could even do it, all I just need is a forum that allows e-mail capability and doesn't require e-mail confirmation.

Hence, again, the need for the IP address to find a clue as to who is pulling this off. 

Actually, who emailed the ST about this? I did. (dont' if you haven't yet)

Last edited by scratch_yoshi (2011-06-27 19:17:14)

scratch_yoshi wrote:

Actually, who emailed the ST about this? I did. (dont' if you haven't yet)

Please answer!

I think this thread has otherwise run it's course.

There's more than one way to contact the Scratch Team other than through help@scratch.mit.edu. I already sent in a report about this, so let's just wait until someone from the ST comes and sorts this all out.