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It's not legit. It is the attacker sending spam to the emails they got.
I mean... ffs, it says "Sam Altman is inviting you to..." Do you honestly think that's real???
This is insanity.
Yeah. I emailed MXRoute who told me about the SendGrid issue and I could either add my domain to an allowed list (which may increase spam), so I decided not to.
UPDATE:
Looks like someone in ColoCrossing still has some sense in them
https://imgur.com/a/qoalOYj
So they would not pay a stupid ransom, but they charged customers $5 for changing an email address which provider was responsible for keeping secret in the first place.
While we typically avoid criticizing service providers, our experience with ColoCrossing over the years has been increasingly disappointing. We've maintained services with them in multiple locations, including an ongoing colocation presence in Buffalo. However, we've repeatedly encountered inaccurate or questionable invoices that required significant effort on our part to resolve. Their billing practices have proven to be inconsistent and often problematic, with attempts to charge for both legitimate and non-legitimate items.
Although their support team is reasonably responsive, the billing issues have been a persistent and frustrating challenge. As a result, we've significantly reduced our footprint with ColoCrossing and migrated the majority of our infrastructure to other data centers that offer more transparent billing, better uptime, and more reliable network performance.
Weird, those are the colours I’m using in the branding for my summer host.
Trust me, we know exactly who we go ahead and update their details for at no charge at all, and to who we say "hey, there's a fee to change this".
If the previous email was [email protected] and all of a sudden it is [email protected] - I will definitely be playing hard to get.
As a hosting provider, we have different perspectives. As a hosting provider, I care about my customers. If I receive a legitimate ticket with details regarding the change needed, that's definitely going to be updated at no cost. Anything shady? I'd rather lose that business (from the abuser) than getting my clients impacted.
No one size fits all here, if there was, the abusers would use that against me too.
Edit: our business is layer.ae ( https://layer.ae )
That's fair, I did read it as an absolute. I freely admit I have no idea of the amounts and types of skullduggery (today's word!) you deal with as a host, especially in this market. I'd still tell you to stick it if you tried to charge me the 5 bucks, but at least now I think I wouldn't fall in that category anyway. Thanks for the insight.
Still waiting for a free VPS.
Each click in the Panel costs you 0.10$.
You have to login at least every month.
To go to the renewal page, you have to click 10 times.
Ernie is the only and best guy they have there..
It is was very real. You didn’t have to click on any links, just opening ChatGPT > Settings > Workspaces would’ve shown the Teams workspace. Paid models like o3, 4o worked fine. Now coming to the catch, they have deactivated the workspace. 🤣 Good while it lasted.
I thought it was real. Never say never.
FWIW: They ended up changing my email for free.
The simple gesture of asking $5 for an email change is despicable in my opinion.
Depends on the usecase....
Reduces the fraud issues incase of account takeovers and selling
The database got hacked and accounts were taken over. I guess that $5 did not protect much.
In this scenario it didn't. But I am talking in general about providers charging a fee to change email address.
Just report the breach, if enough people do this, CC might change their minds.
https://x.com/haveibeenpwned/status/1929769180414595475
They deserve to be eternally banished from LET.
Wild, still zero notice from ColoCrossing.
No there was no breach. It's just your imagination and you forgot to take your pills. They are lying to you, don't believe them. The passwords are safe!
'data loss'
Fake news
Should've linked to https://www.colocrossingbreach.com/ instead
It's not updated though