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This is exactly the problem. There is no consistency. We have simple rules: provider tag removed, or permanently banned; yet here we are making a star out of a scammer with all sorts of bells and whistles, when the word "suspend" is not even mentioned in the rules to begin with.
This is very special treatment, when a scammer and abuser would have been banned in the past immediately. All summer hosts and abusers were banned when the final complaint thread was closed. Not here though. Not with this one.
So yes, this is a warning. More bells and gifs are needed, but not addressed towards the users of this forum. Someone else needs to wake up and smell all this bullshit treatment. But you know... bilohbucks are fast my man.
Banning him and making a huge sticky thread about he stealing $20k on this forum is the way to go, will make 2nd place on google once anyone searches ihostart or calin. Ill pay the ad fee for the thread, no problem.
Please donate money to poor kids , no to big corporations (and I'm not speaking sarcastically, it applies to anyone)
Seriously, don't say anything unless you want to talk about the $20k.
Thanks.
Stop stealing money others have to work for! I really hope the law makes you wake up and deal with your issues.
@cociu had that, did it help anyone? nop, once things start going downhill and you do nothing about it, they won't fix themselves on their own.
@calin - I was on your side that this was a case of poor management, not a scam, but you need to take this seriously and address the issue at hand.
I agree it didnt help anyone when that shit went down. But it did make cociu go out of business, avoiding future problems and more money lost.
I can understand that getting the money frozen (if it actually did happen) made problems for calin, and he would have issues refunding that. However, calin got paid in crypto for services. The services wasnt delivered. The customer should be refunded the same way (same currency) + interest the moment calin realised he cant deliver. Or he should not have accepted the order at all.
Where the money is now is irrelevant - Calin owes the customer $20k. The rest is calins problems, and should not affect his customer in any way. That is my opinion, and i stand by that 100%.
There was even posted chat logs at one point where calin said that if there was even the smallest problem, he would refund. Guess what, problem happened, and he still havent refunded the $20k.
Theres no if, when or but here. Calin is a asshole, simple as that. Now he spends a new customers money (who paid alot for a 100g port) to put ALL his client on the mentioned 100g port, to make his services look even better for people looking to seed porn. This ends up in even more sales probably. Smart move by Calin, but a dick move, yes!
Ill stop commenting now, i just wanted to share my thoughts.
Also @host_c, thank you for the service you are providing me, and the customer support. Flawless and very helpful experience!
Its better to BAN him than to allow him use sneaking tactics like benchmarks /100g speedtest threads to amass more sales innocent users of LET community will loose money.
I think Calin does not rely only on LET for clients, so ban here will not achieve the same IMO.
Maybe someone will see that he offer 100g port for 3000 euro and may consider it cheap and contact him and loose money.
He should not get this platform anymore to make a single sale.
My iPhone can hit faster.
@zmeu
@doghouch
+1 for creativity
I just came across this: https://bgp.tools/dns/mail.ihostart.com
IMHO is either:
1) TheCrimialsFriend knows his reputation is shit and tries to relay on the friend he has on his payroll (prolly from scamming money).
2) His friend has kinda the same moral standards by cooperating with criminals helpers.
3) May be cumulative 1 and 2.
I am not sure how these three points are related to the fact Calin uses 3rd party host for email (I guess it is vps and not hosted email service)?
Hey Tentor, yeah, I get what you’re saying! My points were more about the kind of people someone chooses to work with rather than the email host itself. If they’re cool with shady folks, it kinda says something about their own standards, you know? The email thing was just an example that made me raise an eyebrow. Hope that clears it up!
Thanks you for clarification, now I get what you mean.
I don't know much about HOST-C being shady though, the only thing I heard is @yoursunny blaming @host_c (I hope I am not mistaken) for DDoS.
DDOS and selling customer data, @yoursunny did I omit anything??
Pretty much spot on, from what I remember.
Calin + host_UNKNOWN_CHARACTER_HERE => Love.
Your logic is like that of a 13-year-old. You never miss an opportunity to make allusions to me so I look bad or suggest that I had anything to do with the 22K he messed up..
If not for the 22K shit-show, I am confident you will smoke up something alse.
If he had @ Goolge or Microsoft , should Google and Microsoft be the TheCrimialsFriend ?
Whatever you're trying to achieve isn't helping your situation. It only makes you seem like a stubborn teenager, unable to move on and fixated on the same issue. Do you really think this act of deception will solve anything?
Either you have something on the people you're mocking, in which case I strongly encourage you to contact the appropriate authorities, or you should take your own advice "Not selling anything anymore on this criminal-friendly forum." and stop trying to sell "smoke and mirrors."
Do something productive for a change, because from what I’ve seen in your replies on LET, you’re just causing drama.
You're acting like a 13-year-old that no one wants to play with, just making a scene. That's exactly what you're doing, AndreiX—nothing more, nothing less.
For someone who claims they aren’t bothered by my posts, you sure put in a lot of effort to throw insults around. Funny how you can dish it out but get so worked up when someone points out questionable ties. The 22K situation speaks for itself, and it’s not about ‘smoking up something else.’ It’s about pointing out patterns that others seem to conveniently ignore.
As for Google or Microsoft — let’s not pretend there’s any real comparison here. We’re talking about someone consistently involved with sketchy players, not tech giants. Nice try at deflecting, though.
Maybe instead of resorting to playground name-calling, you could focus on cleaning up the messes left in your wake. And since you’re so insistent on ‘doing something productive,’ how about you start with fixing your moral senses instead of dodging the obvious?
Anyway, keep lashing out if it helps. But I’ll keep calling it like I see it.
@Andreix
You are just dogging bullets, there is a pattern with you.
Here is one from OGF ( LES ) on 16 january 2024 - you opened an account just to trash FlorinMarian, after the posting @Calin security flaws in WHMCS.
xvps asked you if the sole reason you opened an account was to trash @calin situation.
Your reply was:
Different story.
Sure, I keep my statement that FlorinMarian is an idiot, or, if you want to put it more nicely: a monkey pressing buttons, hoping for the best, while throwing bananas at other monkeys hoping the zookeeper will pet him nicely.
Regarding my registration, I signed up mostly because I like forums in general. Having the opportunity to mock (what I consider to be) an idiot, is just an added bonus.
https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/168779#Comment_168779
So the sole purpose is to mock the ones you personally do not like, right?
In this case, bro, have at it 4 life.
You are just rude, arrogant, and conceited from what I can see.
@Not_Oles , @angstrom , @Arkas
I think that this tread will serve no good, @Calin definitely needs to fix he's mess before announcing anything.
Also, my compatriot @Andreix needs to get he's shit together.
Personally I find it strange that @Andreix seems to target only Romanians. I might be wrong though because I do not track his messages specifically.
It’s funny how you’re trying to spin this narrative as if I had anything to do with exploiting @calin's WHMCS issue. Let’s set the record straight: I’m not the one who exposed or exploited that. But since it’s out in the open, it’s worth talking about the patterns of poor choices and shady connections that follow.
As for your attempt to paint my involvement in forums as just ‘mocking’ people—if pointing out ridiculous behavior and calling out people who deserve it is what you call mocking, then sure, I’ll wear that badge. But it’s less about personal dislike and more about seeing people getting away with nonsense unchecked.
You can throw around accusations of being rude or arrogant all you want, but in the end, it doesn’t change the fact that the real issue here is accountability. Maybe you should focus on fixing that instead of making personal attacks.
It's not strange. I can't really mock you, for example, if I don't know Polish market (assumend from your PL in signature).
@AndreiPerju is Romanian, @AndreiGhesi is also Romanian, but they - as to my knowledge - are representatives of reputable businesses, not just some shady dudes who'd sell their mother for $5/mo.
So, yeah, I am targeting more the segment I know well.
@AndreiX, chatGPT messed up the reply, I did not imply you were part of it, I just underlined my point, my point is with you being a dick, and that there is a pattern.
I'll be honest here and will try to not to break any rules of LET.
You are the admin here so what you post, sways the community or at least a part of it from one side to another.
It's time, As a team admin, you guys should decide whether Calin as patron provider (suspended) and Calin as a member are two different identity or not?
According to the rules, once suspended, the power of account of patron provider will decrease to the status of a member. So whatever restriction applies to members, will apply to Calin also.
Here he asked a question and people started to troll the thread. An administrator siding with them riles up the crowd even more. There's nationality biased creeping up where people are questioning the integrity of other Romanian providers while some Indian members are grouping together since gossd was Indian company.
What did @host_c do to receive these kind of treatments? Why @aneesh120 is allowed to derail every thread degrading it to some trash bin eventually to lock because it reached to the point of no return?
On top of that, an administrator writing above doesn't help the cause.
It's high time you guys discuss together to decide whether to keep Calin or remove him. Because this middle ground is actually polluting the forum.
If you guys remove him, then ban him for good.
If you guys keep him, then team admin should make sure that any thread/comments made by Calin doesn't trigger these other people to derail the thread.
Simply changing the tag doesn't help in anyway.
If you rub me well, I'll become even bigger for you. In the meantime, you're still a sketchy dude, on Calin's payroll, being happy he can get crumbs from a 20k scam.
PS: Having GPT write your reply? Talking about skills like: "Hey GPT! Andreix is making me upset! Give me something to combat."
Where does it say this?
So you are LET RO Police now?
Who are you?
Rub you, ???? that is sick
Beside words you show nothing........ Payroll? like mafia style??? LOL