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User is sending fake donations. - Asuna_mybb_import7736 - 04-24-2013

Hello Blue or mod.

This user just send me a fake donation:

http://www.hackcommunity.com/User-Nooby

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I don't know what else to write, so I'll just leave it here.

RE: User is sending fake donations. - Linuxephus™ - 04-24-2013

(04-24-2013, 04:30 AM)ILoveYou Wrote: Hello Blue or mod.

This user just send me a fake donation:

http://www.hackcommunity.com/User-Nooby

I don't know what else to write, so I'll just leave it here.

The User has apparently figured out how to send a false donation which in turn results in the User them-self receiving what they never genuinely donated.
Banning as we speak on that premise.
In either case, there are previous reasons for the User to be Banned by default for dual accounting.
Resolved.

RE: User is sending fake donations. - Ex094 - 04-24-2013

Same here, I was gonna ban him but someone did that already Biggrin

Cheers for Linuxephus

RE: User is sending fake donations. - Linuxephus™ - 04-24-2013

(04-24-2013, 05:03 AM)Ex094 Wrote: Same here, I was gonna ban him but someone did that already
Cheers for Linuxephus

The User sent me the same "donation" as he did to ILoveYou.
I made note when he sent me the "donation", he had 11 HC Coins.
Apparently sometime after that, somebody triggered his handy work, which resulted in him receiving at least 3 HC Coins reading as how his count was up to 14 HC Coins at the time I banned him and he's made no comments since 4-16-2013.
The rest is only logical.
Even if I'm incorrect, the intent was to receive HC Coins by way of deceit as the User had zero reason to actually "donate" HC Coins and only targeted Members with a sufficiently high HC Coin count.
Meanwhile, thanks for the mention Ex094.
Although the real thanks belongs to ILoveYou since I had to actually wait for another Member to confirm the above in writing before having enough reason to act.

RE: User is sending fake donations. - Asuna_mybb_import7736 - 04-24-2013

I don't understand this.
Does he se you to send him coins, or did he trick the system?

RE: User is sending fake donations. - Ex094 - 04-24-2013

(04-24-2013, 05:41 AM)ILoveYou Wrote: I don't understand this.
Does he se you to send him coins, or did he trick the system?

I don't think he could have tricked the system, Blue and 1llusion have eyes on every plugin, if it was vulnerable to being trick, They would have disabled it until a fix has been done.

RE: User is sending fake donations. - Linuxephus™ - 04-24-2013

(04-24-2013, 05:41 AM)ILoveYou Wrote: I don't understand this.
Does he se you to send him coins, or did he trick the system?

Well, I can't be sure one way or the other as it didn't work on me in either case because his coin count didn't change after I read the PM and verified that by line of sight, including my own coin count.
Some other Member who opened it did trigger his handy work though as his coin count increased to 14 HC Coins.
I doubt it was social engineering per say.
So mark my answer here as the User having Tricked The System.
Though technically it is both by definition simultaneously.

(04-24-2013, 05:46 AM)Ex094 Wrote: I don't think he could have tricked the system, Blue and 1llusion have eyes on every plugin, if it was vulnerable to being trick, They would have disabled it until a fix has been done.

Unless they're unaware of that particular vulnerability.

And can someone be so kind as to tell me since when are HC Coin Donation Notifications in the GIF format instead of the standard imaging format?

(04-24-2013, 05:41 AM)ILoveYou Wrote: I don't understand this.
Does he se you to send him coins, or did he trick the system?

I have a theory, unproven thus far.
I'm going to donate 4 HC Coins to you.
Upon receiving the donation, screenshot it and post your results here just as you did with Nooby's.

Furthermore to The Reader at large, take a further look at the image above and make note of how many donations were actually made by the User and tell me what you come up with.

RE: User is sending fake donations. - Asuna_mybb_import7736 - 04-24-2013

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RE: User is sending fake donations. - H4R0015K - 04-24-2013

Banning a member just because he sent a false donation...Don't you think its plain stupid?

RE: User is sending fake donations. - Linuxephus™ - 04-24-2013

(04-24-2013, 06:23 AM)ILoveYou Wrote:

Well, so much for the GIF theory I was contemplating.
Apparently that method wasn't used after all.
Regardless, I'm calling it a Tricking The System until another can disprove it.
Bluedog and 1llusion will be online at some point to further debunk the situation one way or the other.
Thanks for the screenshot young lady by the way.:thumbs: