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Frantech.xyz scam
Be careful, when reading an e-mail, not to click on anything. It is very important to be careful of other scams, from what I saw a link redirects to a website to reset the password.
I did this topic, because there are many people who lose their accounts due to inattention
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This isn't a scam.
xyz Perfect TLD for scammers. Francisco really do that?
Did you tried hetzner.xyz?
Bytefend is the one doing this phishing scam.
They've also been spamming emails and ddosing Francisco.
it's the one who got banned couple of weeks ago on LET?
How is xyz special in this? It costs almost the same as a .com domain. Any TLD that you don't buy for your "trademark" can be used for this.
Yep
Because 6+ letter domains cost $0.99 to register. Easy to spam and throwaway. Check out 1.111B Class.
Yea
You can get. Xyz within 1bucks
Ridiculous, flagged. I don't think that @Francisco needs shady (or even criminal) tricks, he certainly has enough visibility and (well deserved) attention in the market.
@admins Shouldn't the thread title be changed?
@Calin can you provide the email headers please?
@ 3:48
Yep, good example.
Been tracking these in the Frantech discord. If you get a new one please share: https://buyvm.net/beware-the-moshbear/
The individual is harvesting public emails and then phishing or newsletter bombing people.
There are a number of folks helping report and take these down - the .xyz domain was terminated by Njalla yesterday and Zoho took down the phishing form in record time.
That is only for numbers
I swear some people just have too much free time
Yep, I’ve been very greatful to the helpers on our discord.
the domain for suspended the other day so h r moved to zoho forms. That got suspended very quickly as well.
Hopefully he sees the inside of a federal pound me in the ass prison since I’m sure we’re not the only ones.
Francisco
@Francisco how does he have a list of customers? Just general listbombing or do you suspect something more nefarious like a data breach?
scraping the internet for breadcrumbs via discord etc
Only emails that he can dig up off public records (users shared their emails in channel, easily findable on github, etc).
There was multiple people that got the resets/newsletter bombs/etc, that aren't even clients of ours (never signed up), they're just in our Discord with their email in profile, or trackable in some way. There was a user yesterday that got a reset on his generic ASN abuse email, one that he never uses on any websites.
We've had a few people freak out swearing to Jesus himself that their email was entirely private and only used on Frantech, only to find it...in their public youtube profile, or github, or the latest, on their RIPE listings.
He's scraped for domains at times, one of my whois protection emails got added to a bunch of newsletters the other day.
Francisco
Bytefend/Limes really has a lot of time to go around reconing people individually... but then waste their investigation on a simple phishing attack.
He ddosed my kvm slice from Fran a week ago because I was talking shit about him...He really is mad
Mostly sent from protonmail. I deleted them after making filters but they weren't overly interesting.
My takeaway from the title of this thread is that Fran is a scammer, without even reading the post..
Ban Fran?
Gotta bust him in a scam first..
Or when you see him advertising BuyScam.
Haha, at the rate LET is going (hotline/boomer/etc) outright scamming will be a common thing. Scams as a Service.