(Apr 24, 2017 12:09 AM)bzrΚ Wrote:  Nice. Hopefully this thread will help avoid people getting scammed in the future. :/

(Apr 24, 2017 12:05 AM)Cryptic™ Wrote:  Well this has just been increasing more and more every month. I usually just update this post but I feel as though I should make my own thread for this now as everything is all over the place and I'd like to have data compiled in one thread that I can just update/reference each and everytime it occurs.

Let this thread serve as a database.

What is going on?

There is a guy, or a small group of people that target people in the hacking requests section posing as myself or Armada. In many cases they pose as both of us, getting Armada to vouch for the "fake" me which is what happened here.

One user that I know of that is 100% behind a large amount of these impersonations is https://hackforums.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=3334123

Why?

https://i.imgur.com/ARlfko8.png

oep6457 had a thread in the hacking request section asking for something to be hacked.

The user I mentioned above sent a PM to this user asking him to send an email to one of his email addresses. A few hours later, oep6457 receives an email from "Cryptic" with this as proof making it look like it was actually the real me.

Thankfully oep6457 was not stupid and PM'd me on site to make sure if it was really me or not.

List of impersonations (A lot of the threads below contain a lot of the "fake" evidence these scammers use to convince victims that they are really me:
Cheated by cryptic by under_taker89
[Community Alert] PSA: Scammers are getting SMARTER. The MOST ADVANCED SCAM on HF just took place... by Cryptic™
[Community Alert] Jarvis_ai Imprsonating Myself and Cryptic (uid=3141776) by Armada
Armada by 1akaidummy
[Community Alert] DO NOT DEAL WITH - IMPERSONATING OTHERS by oep6457
Scammed totally $200 by Cryptic™ UID=716331 and Armada UID=952566 by yammy0115 <----- Most Recent

https://i.imgur.com/SH8OxsS.png

People that have been caught impersonating me
https://hackforums.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=3141776 <--- Got Closed
https://hackforums.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=2466573 <--- No longer uses that account but he is a multi
https://hackforums.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=3334123 <--- Actively uses this account to gain victims emails/skypes.

If you use the search function you will see a lot more.

Skypes/Emails used by scammers:
[email protected]
[email protected]
blackhat.l33t

AS ALWAYS, I NEVER DO DEALS OUTSIDE OF HF. These people will try to contact you buy any means. Skype/Discord/Email. Here's one guy that was contacted via Discord https://i.imgur.com/B89j1fr.png

I will be updating this thread each time something like this occurs with the latest emails/skypes being used.

(Apr 24, 2017 12:09 AM)bzrΚ Wrote:  Nice. Hopefully this thread will help avoid people getting scammed in the future. :/

(Apr 24, 2017 12:10 AM)Cryptic™ Wrote:  The genius behind this makes hundreds if not thousands a month because people are too stupid to do something as simple as PMing me on site. :(

It's a shame.

(Apr 24, 2017 12:12 AM)Malicious Intent Wrote:  I feel as if the only way to stop that is to make a disclaimer that is shown during the registration. You will always get some idiot lowlife with plenty of time on their hand and zero skills to make money in a legit way.

(Apr 24, 2017 04:51 AM)Armada Wrote:  Secondly. THis seems to be a site feature many are not aware of.
https://hackforums.net/verifysecret.php

(Apr 24, 2017 08:22 AM)Cryptic™ Wrote:  [Community Alert] PSA: Scammers are getting SMARTER. The MOST ADVANCED SCAM on HF just took place... by Cryptic™

Take a look at that.

(Dec 4, 2016 01:24 AM)Cryptic™ Wrote:  Basically what happened was
Scammer contacted me via email acting as xjath.
The scammer asked me to PM xjath saying "It's me" to make it look like xjath was really talking to me.
At the same time the scammer was impersonating me talking to the real xjath.
After that the scammer created a fake Skype of xjath and added me on it, while at the same time the scammer used email to talk to the real xjath.
Scammer got xjath to use the https://hackforums.net/verifysecret.php on ME.
Then on the scammers fake skype account of xjath, he talked to me, and got me to use the verifysecret feature to confirm the code, which he showed to the real xjath via the account he was impersonating of me.[/i]

At this point, xjath had no reason to believe the impostor of me talking to him was an impostor because the HF Secret was verified, so he went ahead and sent the impostor 1 BTC and got scammed.


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(Apr 24, 2017 09:57 AM)Armada Wrote:  Son of a fucking bitch....

Shit man, even I gotta admit, as shitty as that is, it is pretty fucking ingenious.

(Apr 25, 2017 11:23 PM)Adrian.Lamo Wrote:  This stupid retarded user is trying to -ve me without any reason. I don't know if he is mentally disturbed or is out of his minds. He thinks he can put his own charges on anyone. Please find all findings and confirm things before quoting about someone.

(Apr 25, 2017 11:39 PM)Malicious Intent Wrote:  Thanks for keeping the community alert afloat. Personally i don't believe that such a "punk ass dick weasel" like yourself would be capable of impersonating anyone. If you feel like he's abusing the reputation system you can report it to staff and let them deal with it but you might want to read the Help Docs first (inb4 you get repfucked). Armada is known for jumping the gun and reacting impulsively over silly shit so no wonder hes all over the place when it comes to someone impersonating him. Did you try to talk to him (as hard as it gets once hes made up his mind) and prove him wrong?

(Apr 25, 2017 11:58 PM)Adrian.Lamo Wrote:  I have messaged him the message from reputation help page and waiting for 24 hours before I report to staff if he don't reacts on it. I don't understand why some people act so weird. I am sure he is not Bill Gates or Steve Jobs that someone impersonate him. None even know him in real world. Besides she works in VPN Stuff and I am working on pentesting. What profit will I get copying him. Anyways. Waiting for staff to act. Or I will deal with rep and move on. God will justify it sooner or later.

(Apr 26, 2017 12:01 AM)Malicious Intent Wrote:  Actually his "real world info" is public. Anyway.. good luck sorting this out.

(Apr 25, 2017 11:23 PM)Adrian.Lamo Wrote:  This stupid retarded user is trying to -ve me without any reason. I don't know if he is mentally disturbed or is out of his minds. He thinks he can put his own charges on anyone. Please find all findings and confirm things before quoting about someone.

(Apr 25, 2017 11:39 PM)Malicious Intent Wrote:  Thanks for keeping the community alert afloat. Personally i don't believe that such a "punk ass dick weasel" like yourself would be capable of impersonating anyone. If you feel like he's abusing the reputation system you can report it to staff and let them deal with it but you might want to read the Help Docs first (inb4 you get repfucked). Armada is known for jumping the gun and reacting impulsively over silly shit so no wonder hes all over the place when it comes to someone impersonating him. Did you try to talk to him (as hard as it gets once hes made up his mind) and prove him wrong?

(Apr 25, 2017 11:58 PM)Adrian.Lamo Wrote:  I have messaged him the message from reputation help page and waiting for 24 hours before I report to staff if he don't reacts on it. I don't understand why some people act so weird. I am sure he is not Bill Gates or Steve Jobs that someone impersonate him. None even know him in real world. Besides she works in VPN Stuff and I am working on pentesting. What profit will I get copying him. Anyways. Waiting for staff to act. Or I will deal with rep and move on. God will justify it sooner or later.