zelatech Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 Hello, i've just received 3 emails from this idiot whmcs*apps*com about their new stupid app, as I've never registered on their website with any of our account, so I bet they're using laked WHMCS db to send spam. As they are registered at WHMCS too, both on the forum and probably with the whmcs itself, I would like them to be BANNED as this is shitty way of doing business and i hope this is not allowed by WHMCS too. Their account on this forum: http://forum.whmcs.com/member.php?22280-ShaunR :mad: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 (edited) Just got one myself, and I have no account with whmcsapps.com. I agree that some sort of action should be taken. Email came from ndchost.com network--abuse email address is abuse at ndchost.com. Edited November 30, 2012 by Troy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Ah, so that's where they got my email. I've been puzzling over that one all evening. Disgraceful. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckh Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 I just got one also, same thing, never had anything to do with them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RebelOne Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 wow, i just glanced at the email and thought it was actually from whmcs till i read this thread... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striddy Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Yep, I got the email as well. Interesting world we live in isn't it? Morons like this think this is perfectly normal business practice. WHMCS, please ban this idiot from the forum and give him a stern finger pointing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 I got one as well and there was no way they could have got that particular email from anywhere but the whmcs DB 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ServWise.com Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Add me to the list. Two from them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damo Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 I've posted on their facebook page but the posts are removed immediately. Their emails are now blocked from our networks. Disgraceful indeed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djkimmel Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 I got the email. Never heard of them. Lots of poor grammar and misspellings. I took it as a bad phishing attempt. Definitely spam since I've never dealt with them or gave them permission to send me anything. I hope there are consequences for this kind of behavior. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infopro Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Has any of you opened a ticket to WHMCS about this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zelatech Posted November 30, 2012 Author Share Posted November 30, 2012 @Infopro #787912 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infopro Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Thank you. I'm not able to locate that ticket. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striddy Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Has any of you opened a ticket to WHMCS about this? Yes, did that several hours ago. #266113 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgrayban Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 I got several emails from this loser and then rated them at WOT http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/whmcsapps.com for being turds. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgrayban Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 BTW could a mod here correct the spelling for this thread ? It's driving me crazy seeing laked instead of leaked. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebsiteIntegrations Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 see also http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=8448805 An explanation of how it happened Today I finally got around to sending an email blast to all the contacts i had in my system notifying them that i had released my first addon. A while back before the WHMCS leak was a top story a guy had come into IRC claiming that all the email addresses from the WHMCS database were online. He pasted the link into the channel and I downloaded the list, curious to see if what he was saying was true. It was and the file was named emails.txt. A week or so ago I created my email database from my list of contacts, can you guess what I named it... emails.txt! and not only that but my bash history shows when I dumped my contacts to emails.txt that I appended to this file. At the time I did not even know I still had this downloaded email database, in fact using emails.txt for the name was by coincidence. When I started my mailer script this morning I though it was odd that it was taking so long to complete but I had to run out and left it running. I came home tonight to find my email box full of angry people. Once I had finally realized what had happened I stopped the MTA and cleared the mail queue, I also removed that emails.txt file to make sure this would never happen again! I know that many of you probably wont believe me, but i'm truly sorry and this was by accident. I just sent a similar email to Aaron at WHMCS apologizing to him and Matt as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgrayban Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Dude is a liar. I just got the emails last night and this has been going on for days and he KNEW the emails were all stolen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyhosting Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 I got 3 also. have your read his feeble excuse on http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=8448624#post8448624 Originally Posted by ShaunR First let me say how sorry I am to everybody who received an unsolicited email from me today! It was never my intent to spam you and i'm really embarrassed and sorry. An explanation of how it happened Today I finally got around to sending an email blast to all the contacts i had in my system notifying them that i had released my first addon. A while back before the WHMCS leak was a top story a guy had come into IRC claiming that all the email addresses from the WHMCS database were online. He pasted the link into the channel and I downloaded the list, curious to see if what he was saying was true. It was and the file was named emails.txt. A week or so ago I created my email database from my list of contacts, can you guess what I named it... emails.txt! and not only that but my bash history shows when I dumped my contacts to emails.txt that I appended to this file. At the time I did not even know I still had this downloaded email database, in fact using emails.txt for the name was by coincidence. When I started my mailer script this morning I though it was odd that it was taking so long to complete but I had to run out and left it running. I came home tonight to find my email box full of angry people. Once I had finally realized what had happened I stopped the MTA and cleared the mail queue, I also removed that emails.txt file to make sure this would never happen again! I know that many of you probably wont believe me, but i'm truly sorry and this was by accident. I just sent a similar email to Aaron at WHMCS apologizing to him and Matt as well. regardless to me , he stored details from the leaked database so should like the others who used the DB and have his WHMCS licence revoked. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaunR Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 First let me say how sorry I am to everybody who received an unsolicited email from me today! It was never my intent to spam you and i'm really embarrassed and sorry. An explanation of how it happened Today I finally got around to sending an email blast to all the contacts i had in my system notifying them that i had released my first addon. A while back before the WHMCS leak was a top story a guy had come into IRC claiming that all the email addresses from the WHMCS database were online. He pasted the link into the channel and I downloaded the list, curious to see if what he was saying was true. It was and the file was named emails.txt. A week or so ago I created my email database from my list of contacts, can you guess what I named it... emails.txt! and not only that but my bash history shows when I dumped my contacts to emails.txt that I appended to this file. At the time I did not even know I still had this downloaded email database, in fact using emails.txt for the name was by coincidence. When I started my mailer script this morning I though it was odd that it was taking so long to complete but I had to run out and left it running. I came home tonight to find my email box full of angry people. Once I had finally realized what had happened I stopped the MTA and cleared the mail queue, I also removed that emails.txt file to make sure this would never happen again! I know that many of you probably wont believe me, but i'm truly sorry and this was by accident. I just sent a similar email to Aaron at WHMCS apologizing to him and Matt as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyhosting Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 ShaunR it is not good just repeating the same statement you posted on other forums, then fact is that you downloaded/stored details from the WHMCS leaked database with the only intention of using these details in a marketing campaign otherwise you would not have stored these details under emails.txt. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaunR Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 ShaunR it is not good just repeating the same statement you posted on other forums, then fact is that you downloaded/stored details from the WHMCS leaked database with the only intention of using these details in a marketing campaign otherwise you would not have stored these details under emails.txt. I'm posting the same message because i was asked too. I did not store this database with the intent to use it to spam. The only reason it was named emails.txt was because that was the name used in the url (for example wget http://domain.com/whmcs/emails.txt). I originally downloaded this file to see if what they guy was saying was true and to see if my email address was also in that list. It's my own fault for not removing it then and now i'm doing what i can to try and make this right. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyhosting Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 you still stored the list from a leaked database. Many WHMCS users could have done the same, but never did as it made you just as bad as those publishing the DB as it was information Illegally gained 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckh Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 I'm sure there were many that downloaded the list to see if their info and what info it contained. But, download the list. Use the same file name AND directory that you originally downloaded the list in, append instead of replace, too many coincidences for me. Then from someone who has a whmcs mod they want us to buy, to me meaning they should know their way around an operating system and how files work. So, to me it means they either did it on purpose and/or severely lack the expertise and professionalism to produce a mod they want to sell me that interfaces with my business. You can bet that whether on purpose or by accident, I won't be purchasing or even considering the mod. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyhosting Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 You can bet that whether on purpose or by accident, I won't be purchasing or even considering the mod. same here, but he used the info downloaded to spam those on the list, so i think he should face the same as others that did this in the early stages and have his WHMCS licence revoked. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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