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Re: NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails

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Post by neoromantique »

foverzar wrote: post #98
neoromantique wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That and the obvious narrative pushing of whataboutism and Russian apologism.

Ugh, this is boring. Not everything is a narrative and not every omitted fact or forgotten nuance visible from a perspective of a local is "apologism". Back again, kinda hard to act friendly when people are so systemically discriminating against anything that doesn't correlate with their impressions. What is so wrong with my comment history that you are now accusing me of a thoughcrime? It's just that your comment hi…

I am saying that being mad or surprised over a company with significant employee base in Kharkiv not wishing to conduct any business with Russian (Located in Russia, not tested by DNA, mind you) customers whilst their city was literally being bombed by Russia is very tone deaf.

And /on top of that/, the fact that almost a whole year of war later you spread Russian propaganda about "we don't know the whole truth, think about what US did in 'nam!", is just cherry on the cake.

Re: NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails

#102

Post by FpUser »

ColonelBlimp wrote: post #92
FpUser wrote: post #45

Got one today. Funny I was actually expecting a package. Of course the email is for suckers as it has more than enough clues about being scam but I guess some poor souls might actually fall for it.

>Of course the email is for suckers as it has more than enough clues about being scam but I guess some poor souls might actually fall for it. I wonder whether that type of comment is in line with Hacker News Guidelines. In any case, blaming or demeaning scam victims (what you call "suckers" and "poor souls") only adds to the psychological damage that those people experience. There are plenty of studies, recommendatio…

>"In any case, blaming or demeaning scam victims..."

The demeaning in this particular case goes for the authors of the scam. The clues are in plain sight. They did not bother to hide it at all. I am not blaming victims.

Re: NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails

#103

Post by foverzar »

neoromantique wrote: post #101
foverzar wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ugh, this is boring. Not everything is a narrative and not every omitted fact or forgotten nuance visible from a perspective of a local is "apologism". Back again, kinda hard to act friendly when people are so systemically discriminating against anything that doesn't correlate with their impressions. What is so wrong with my comment history that you are now accusing me of a thoughcrime? It's just that your comment hi…

I am saying that being mad or surprised over a company with significant employee base in Kharkiv not wishing to conduct any business with Russian (Located in Russia, not tested by DNA, mind you) customers whilst their city was literally being bombed by Russia is very tone deaf. And /on top of that/, the fact that almost a whole year of war later you spread Russian propaganda about "we don't know the whole truth, thin…

Oh, "tone deaf", nice. Everything is a "tone", a "narrative", a "propaganda" these days, ugh. Well sorry for being an individual and not singing in unison.

> And /on top of that/, the fact that almost a whole year of war later you spread Russian propaganda about "we don't know the whole truth, think about what US did in 'nam!", is just cherry on the cake.

You've just assigned me an image of your ideological enemies and projected the rest from there. Your impression is your problem, not mine - this is clearly not about my comments or their specific contents (because their substance has nothing in common with your assessment), this is you grinding your teeth over the fact that some people may discuss points you don't like.

Re: NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails

#104

Post by neoromantique »

foverzar wrote: post #103
neoromantique wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am saying that being mad or surprised over a company with significant employee base in Kharkiv not wishing to conduct any business with Russian (Located in Russia, not tested by DNA, mind you) customers whilst their city was literally being bombed by Russia is very tone deaf. And /on top of that/, the fact that almost a whole year of war later you spread Russian propaganda about "we don't know the whole truth, thin…

Oh, "tone deaf", nice. Everything is a "tone", a "narrative", a "propaganda" these days, ugh. Well sorry for being an individual and not singing in unison. > And /on top of that/, the fact that almost a whole year of war later you spread Russian propaganda about "we don't know the whole truth, think about what US did in 'nam!", is just cherry on the cake. You've just assigned me an image of your ideological enemies a…

>Well sorry for being an individual

That's rich.

>this is you grinding your teeth over the fact that some people may discuss points you don't like.

This is me stating directly that you are a bad person for consistently spreading the Russian propaganda(https://www.martenscentre.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/russ...), I don't know why you are trying to paint it as some sort of "gotcha".

Re: NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails

#105

Post by foverzar »

neoromantique wrote: post #104
foverzar wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, "tone deaf", nice. Everything is a "tone", a "narrative", a "propaganda" these days, ugh. Well sorry for being an individual and not singing in unison. > And /on top of that/, the fact that almost a whole year of war later you spread Russian propaganda about "we don't know the whole truth, think about what US did in 'nam!", is just cherry on the cake. You've just assigned me an image of your ideological enemies a…

>Well sorry for being an individual That's rich. >this is you grinding your teeth over the fact that some people may discuss points you don't like. This is me stating directly that you are a bad person for consistently spreading the Russian propaganda( https://www.martenscentre.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/russ... ), I don't know why you are trying to paint it as some sort of "gotcha".

> That's rich.

Haters gonna hate.

> This is me stating directly that you are a bad person

Okay. I don't take people who label every other random sampled inconvenient piece of information or opinion as "consistent spreading of propaganda" seriously anyway. Don't suppose anyone actually does, this isn't really a healthy thing, seems kinda Orwellian.

Re: NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails

#106

Post by morganbird »

cortic wrote: post #68

NameCheap have been training their customers to be vulnerable to this for years. When your account gets suspended (in my case for using VPN to login) they send you an email telling you to go to a privately registered domain (not referenced on their site) and do a cam show with your credit card.. Support is so slow they have already shut down your account before you get a response. I lost a domain and only got a parti…

lol what?

Re: NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails

#107

Post by thenickdude »

notahacker wrote: post #75
ginja wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What customer information did you store with that provider? Just names and emails, or was there anything else that attackers may have been able to access?

I don't know what they had stored, but the mailshots were addressed "Dear User" which suggests it was probably just emails My email was also my domain name contact email, so I originally thought they'd obtained it by DNS lookup...

Mine was addressed with my full name in the "To:" field, so they do have our full names (but just didn't mail-merge those into the body of the message).

Re: NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails

#109

Post by FrontierPsych »

NamecheapCEO wrote: post #94
cft wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This ridiculous registrar threatened to lock our domain and destroy our business within 24 hours for a defective DMCA notice that addressed one if our 40 million user profile subdomains. Our legal counsel advised to temporarily comply instead of arguing (although he did send them a nasty letter) to move over to a normal registrar from this cheap one, that i got when i was bootstrapping with no money because it was se…

This is our standard notification, word for word: Untitled Note Hello XXXXX, We are contacting you from the Namecheap Legal and Abuse department regarding your “XXXXX” Namecheap account. We are in receipt of a copyright infringement notice pursuant to 17 U.S.C. §512 of the Copyright Act, requesting that we disable allegedly infringing material that appears on a domain hosted in your account (“Domain”): xLINKSx As a h…

huh...My domain is with you.

I didn't even know this was a thing.

I easily could not look at my emails for a few weeks - on vacation or whatever.

Wow that sucks.

Re: NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails

#110

Post by anaganisk »

foverzar wrote: post #97
anaganisk wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are one angry person, from quantum mechanics to politics, not one comment that barely even tries to be friendly. Just bashing.

That is a very wishful assessment of my identity, ironically given that I've never ever even discussed quantum mechanics on HN. But yeah, I do act bashing when discussing politics. Do you feel this is somehow undeserved? I don't really see anyone else acting friendly - it's all just one ignorant two minutes hate after another. Besides, English is obviously not my native language.

English is not a first language for many people on this site. The tone of conversation is what's important.

> I don't really see anyone else acting friendly - it's all just one ignorant two minutes hate after another

I just dont understand why you frequent a site that constantly raises your blood pressure so easily and considers the entire userbase as ignorant, unless you want to push a narrative. You can engage in a debate without name calling and being constructive. Your comment history is just bashing all the way. There is a difference between a debate and a fight.

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