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Latest Joshua Prout scams
Hey everyone,
Just spent a lot of time digging and uncovered a couple new "companies" you should all be aware of. These are run by known scammer Joshua Prout, and you should avoid them religiously. Educate anyone you see interacting with anyone representing these brands across the internet.
https://evonoc.com/
https://netxnap.com/
Something named "365Network" that hasn't materialized yet.
New account on WebHostingTalk:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/member.php?u=729653
Latest account on LowEndTalk:
https://www.lowendtalk.com/profile/157780/Subzero08
The domain runescapevm.com comes into play here, as his email address for the domain he signed up with. Nothing on it yet, probably just a future scam.
Comments
it's annoying how easy is to make enterprise out of scam.
Why he is still not in jail?
No one interested in pursuing.
Jarland is very interested. And he made a lot of investigation work, and still does. And iirc it goes beyond stolen servers...
Yeah, but Jarland wasn't scammed by him, that somehow limits the options.
Well, seems its time for Jar to become a victim so he he can put the boy in his place. Don't mind contributing to cover the cost of some shit hardware to send Joshua's way.
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Be sure to put a GPS and listening device in it
Oops...
Let's all buy a case, a few Pis, and a SIM card with unlimited data and have them send real time updates and pretend to be a server?
@dwtbf
Won't work. The RPIs consume way too much power on battery -- on the other hand, on an Arduino hidden under...
I'd be happy to donate a Micro to the cause. I don't have any GSM/CDMA hardware for it, though.
I've been given a suggestion though, to report to the local authorities that he is using aliases online that he is most likely not informing them of. This may be a violation of his requirements to check in for being listed as a sex offender.
Otherwise though, I'm identifying his operations before he scams most people. I suspect, and hope, that I'm limiting the scope of people who could press charges or file a civil suit.
@jarland
With you as an admin here anything that asshole tries to pull off will have very short legs. Thanks for that. I mean it.
@jarland
Great detective skills
I have respect for both jarland and prout. Both seem to be on top of their game.
Sherlock & Moriarty?
bahahaha
Respect for a scammer? You should re-tune your moral detector.
You may want to re-tune your sarcasm detector first.
by this time , he might have started his next scam empire already
His WHT posts make for entertaining reading. I know about as much about setting up a datacentre as I do about the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow but even I know trying to single home a Comcast connection to 8 racks in a small ass office with limited HVAC and a utility power connection is just plain unspeakable.
I bought from him, nice guy, would recommend 10/10.
Did you write this article? http://style.org/unladenswallow/
Aristotle versus Mashy-spike-plate
@kingjj African or European?
I was not disappointed by clicking. And, yes it is sfw.
Post benchmarks and reviews, and mention how much you're getting paid for them :P
Everyone respects a good challenge. Without prout, what would Jarland have to brag about in his spare time?
Babysitting the rest of us miscreants?