URGENT WARNING RE PM's from member "Butterfan" - Fraud / Phishing alert - please read.
It was brought to my attention by a GS member that he had received a bogus PM from a forum member. (se note below) the PM message contained a link that sent the GS user to a bogus web page that looked like a GS forum page but wasn't - with a message to log in for access.
This was / is a password "phishing" attempt. Safari & Firefox browsers will probably flag a warning if visited - but if on a ********** or iPhone it might not be so clearly bogus.....
I have no reason to believe this was especially aimed at Gearslutz - I believe it to be a general / random attempt by a web fraudster looking for names and log in passwords. This has been reported to the web host hosting the files and other action has been taken that I can't discuss.
PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL if you receive a PM from this user - DO NOT click on the link. If you have - please take the precaution of changing a) your password here and b) ANY SITE USE THE SAME PASSWORD AT.
We have removed all PMs from this member, but please feed back any info you may have on this or any other scams. If you receive a similar PM, please report it to a moderator or
support@gearslutz.com.
This site only asks you to log in once to be able to post etc - it never re-asks you or needs another log in to access certain sections or threads.
Thanks in advance for your vigilance
Jules
GS admin
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Bogus message as below....
PM Title: i posted the video you ask
PM message i posted samples of the mic you wanted to hear, the mic is pretty great, so far people on the forum said it sound great let me know if you like it too, im going to open the inside see what kind of tube the mic has
(then a bogus URL / link to a page that looked like Gearslutz.com)
by the way i answer the questions you ask me on the post
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