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Discussion forum => Legacy => Archives => Server News => Topic started by: Saeberus on May 02, 2013, 10:20:14 pm

Title: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: Saeberus on May 02, 2013, 10:20:14 pm
Someone who is not optical or affiliated with the Opticraft staff has sent out this email:

(http://www.opticraft.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F8CpAYXl.png&hash=6ba7460537a2dd2c4528071b20455a3e)

It is important that you DO NOT reply to this email.
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: benc117 on May 02, 2013, 10:32:44 pm
Wow, do we know who it is?
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: andersad on May 02, 2013, 10:41:08 pm
   This is really interesting, how did someone do it? Could they have possibly hacked the system?
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: ☣2crzy4uall☣ on May 02, 2013, 10:44:02 pm
Hack what system? you can either hide your email or have it public, all the people that got these were public. We don't have an Opticraftmc@gmail,com email address, there's no threat, just wanted people to be aware that it's fake.
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: andersad on May 02, 2013, 10:46:05 pm
Oh, ok
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: DeeKay on May 02, 2013, 11:43:37 pm
For future reference, the only official email you should ever trust will be @opticraft.net
But even then, optical has never sent emails like this to anyone, so only Server News posts should ever be trusted.
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: optical on May 02, 2013, 11:48:29 pm
Quote from: xDeeKay on May 02, 2013, 11:43:37 pm
For future reference, the only official email you should ever trust will be @opticraft.net
But even then, optical has never sent emails like this to anyone, so only Server News posts should ever be trusted.
We, much like all other websites and online services will never request your username or password, so never respond to these sorts of emails regardless of the website or service.
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: Holy_Moses on May 03, 2013, 12:29:14 am
Yould think they would come up with a better way than requesting login information -.-
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: DeeKay on May 03, 2013, 12:37:41 am
Well I suspect most younger players would still be fooled, since phishing isn't exactly everyone's forte.
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: Wratkie on May 03, 2013, 01:44:00 am
I wouldn't even click that link incase its a key logger or something
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: cschurz on May 03, 2013, 09:27:37 am
so where does the link point? :)
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: DeeKay on May 03, 2013, 10:05:08 am
Quote from: cschurz on May 03, 2013, 09:27:37 am
so where does the link point? :)
It just points to opticraft.net, nothing special.
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: jh2018 on May 03, 2013, 11:08:10 am
If you look closely at the email, then you could probably think that it's optical, but it's not. It's probably a banned player who got extremely mad and hacked into the forums, and got everyone's email addresses, and sent them out to all forum members.
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: Chipaton on May 03, 2013, 11:18:31 am
Quote from: jh2018 on May 03, 2013, 11:08:10 am
If you look closely at the email, then you could probably think that it's optical, but it's not. It's probably a banned player who got extremely mad and hacked into the forums, and got everyone's email addresses, and sent them out to all forum members.
Or he just used many of the public emails available. If he had "hacked" the forums, why would he need the passwords of players on the forums?
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: TarynMai on May 03, 2013, 12:02:56 pm
Quote from: jh2018 on May 03, 2013, 11:08:10 am
If you look closely at the email, then you could probably think that it's optical, but it's not. It's probably a banned player who got extremely mad and hacked into the forums, and got everyone's email addresses, and sent them out to all forum members.
It wasn't a hacking. The person went to people who had their emails public and used them.
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: Chief149 on May 03, 2013, 12:18:38 pm
Quote from: Chipaton on May 03, 2013, 11:18:31 am
Quote from: jh2018 on May 03, 2013, 11:08:10 am
If you look closely at the email, then you could probably think that it's optical, but it's not. It's probably a banned player who got extremely mad and hacked into the forums, and got everyone's email addresses, and sent them out to all forum members.
Or he just used many of the public emails available. If he had "hacked" the forums, why would he need the passwords of players on the forums?

Well, passwords are stored as irreversible MD5 hashes (might be another one, but it's morning and I forget the other acronyms for the types of hashes used). If the person "hacked" the passcodes, then they would only get one-way encrypted hashes which can only be broken by brute force hacking.
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: ☣2crzy4uall☣ on May 03, 2013, 02:11:58 pm
Quote from: jh2018 on May 03, 2013, 11:08:10 am
If you look closely at the email, then you could probably think that it's optical, but it's not. It's probably a banned player who got extremely mad and hacked into the forums, and got everyone's email addresses, and sent them out to all forum members.

No your email is public unless you choose to hide it, for example, I click your name and this comes up

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: Holy_Moses on May 03, 2013, 02:59:09 pm
A mad player? Reminds me KingAssassin13 lol
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: SpikeyThorn on May 03, 2013, 03:35:57 pm
Mad player you say?
Here's an old one: Raiden
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: clawstrider on May 03, 2013, 05:49:19 pm
Quote from: SpikeyThorn on May 03, 2013, 03:35:57 pm
Mad player you say?
Here's an old one: Raiden

Damn, that guy was awesome persistant.


Also, thanks Sae for this post! ^^
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: square_skull on May 03, 2013, 11:01:52 pm
you saved me from a hacked account, thanks saeberus.

I'm interested about this hacker/fraud or whatever you want to call him.
If he is just a mad player then he obviouslly must not have respect for
other people's work and committments.

I'm just going to call him: HMB (he's mad bro).

now as for suspects, there are plenty of mad players, whether it was that
the couldn't get away with a grief/troll or just had a misunderstanding that
led to a fight, but the thing is there are too many players like this who go
on the server so we cant narrow it down unless we can somehow trace the
e-mail.
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: treestreet10 on May 04, 2013, 12:12:39 am
Can't Optical take down this post?
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: iGenerator on May 04, 2013, 01:30:14 am
The point of this is to tell people to not reply to the email, not to get people to fall into this failed attempt at gaining information to peoples forum accounts.
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: jcgaming on May 05, 2013, 11:34:03 am
might be some one trying to gain accses to the accounts to greif the sever
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: SpikeyThorn on May 05, 2013, 11:37:27 am
Quote from: jcgaming on May 05, 2013, 11:34:03 am
might be some one trying to gain accses to the accounts to greif the sever

They're only getting the Forum profile information...
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: Mr_Mr_Mr on May 06, 2013, 03:04:01 am
Quote from: SpikeyThorn on May 05, 2013, 11:37:27 am
Quote from: jcgaming on May 05, 2013, 11:34:03 am
might be some one trying to gain accses to the accounts to greif the sever

They're only getting the Forum profile information...
90% of people use the same password for everything, so 90% of the people he phish's will have the same password on both the forums and minecraft.
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: tiggy26668 on May 06, 2013, 12:43:27 pm
Just a thought but....
If this happens to be an upset ex opticraft player then chances are they're some not so smart kid trying to piss off other people... And angry kids tend to make mistakes... Like phishing from the same computer they use to play mc.

So what I would propose is just using any one of the emails he sent to get his IP address (not usually displayed but its in the email header) then banning it from the forums to prevent further attacks. Also assuming they used the same comp for this and mc, we could figure out which player has that ip and then we'd kno who did it and if they're not already banned from the server we could take care of that to
Title: Re: Warning - Do not reply to this email
Post by: DeeKay on May 06, 2013, 01:40:46 pm
Quote from: tiggy26668 on May 06, 2013, 12:43:27 pm
Just a thought but....
If this happens to be an upset ex opticraft player then chances are they're some not so smart kid trying to piss off other people... And angry kids tend to make mistakes... Like phishing from the same computer they use to play mc.

So what I would propose is just using any one of the emails he sent to get his IP address (not usually displayed but its in the email header) then banning it from the forums to prevent further attacks. Also assuming they used the same comp for this and mc, we could figure out which player has that ip and then we'd kno who did it and if they're not already banned from the server we could take care of that to

Found no usernames matching the IP. I think we should just leave the whole situation alone, trolls will be trolls, and it's not worth out trouble.