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Corrected that for you. Here we're, at least mainly, about now, i.e. the new owner and what he does and how he does it.
I'm not so sure about that because it seems that the deal was done in a hurry. Which doesn't change the fact that the new owner is responsible now anyway, but I wouldn't be surprised if he found some "dead bodies in the basement" ...
The discord is gold. The people "attacking" them are doing them a favor, helping them "test" their infrastructure and build solutions with "unlimited resources", while at the same time throwing around things like "Considering we've been operating for almost 20 years in the US with massive contracts and agreements with some of the largest companies and governments, were pretty credible."
Biggest red flags if nobodie/s (since i dont know if eric, andrew, tinky winky, ... are the same person) throw such things around
So the provider does us a favour in keeping the services active. Meanwhile the hackers are doing the provider a favour in testing provider's network and services. All this time the governments are doing a favour to us all by not intervening. This is such a great world we live in - I feel so privileged to be a customer of all this!
From the discord:
Just go check the FBI database guys, he's totally legit.
Have anyone actually paid for anything via Stripe and can lookup info?
Stripe dont discuss accounts. GDPR and privacy restrictions.
They will look into shady shit but you wont hear about any decision they have made.
I think the most you can ever look up is the transaction for verification that it was processed through a Stripe account.
Chargeback done. bye
The people who don't even know this is going are the ones gonna get hurt when chargeback time is over and this clown pulls the last plug. What a crock of shit this is.
And the ones who will cry the loudest here are the ones who did a quick chargeback and then the hoster seemed legit after all, does a descent job and respects most of the contracts that provide quite cheap resources to the ones who took the gamble.
Do I believe in fairytales? Nope. Do I think this will end well? Don't know. But I'm taking the gamble for now. The money involved isn't that much, and I think the smile when things in the future are OK outweigh the hurt I'll have when the money is gone.
Everyone must make the decision themselves and I don't feel that I should laugh at whatever decision whoever makes. But that's not how 2025 works I think, looking at quite a number of the reactions here.
I bought a service from Veloxmedia months ago and I was (and still am) pretty happy with it. I'm praying that nothing happens to it since Its running a lot of my services and I cant afford to replace it at the moment.
Yeah, once the FBI investigation is complete we'll finally have a stable service.
But a legitimate and professional business will always be transparent and provide verifiable information, especially since they have access to PII data and must prove their existence. They said they have been "operating for almost 20 years in the US with massive contracts and agreements with some of the largest companies and governments", but so far, we have not been able to verify the identity of "Eric Banks" nor find "Velox Media inc" in the PA registry.
It's Christmas, give him some time to create an identity.
So far, the only thing i can see here is Hostaris 2.0 .
The fact that identity frequently leaks, if not being sold around, made it a huge concern.
The only thing Lewis managed to do before retreating was disclose that it was Benthost who had taken over. I think, with that information, there are some trails to follow that could lead to the actual people behind all this.
Oh no, the personal data are leaking ... Come on, all cellphone operators selling your data to third party companies, by the agreement which you signed, banks when provide your information to loyalty partners, all loyalty programs do that, and etc.
Stop doing the drama of personal data, when the company changed the owner.
I'm normally very much into data safety and that kind of stuff. But if I take a look at what data would be exposed through this thingy... there's nothing there that really would worry me, including payment data. Because the latter is out there multiple times, with multiple providers. And as you say: this is a worrying situation, but we don't know where else people are selling personal info that we don't know. So basically, I'm very keen on what information I share and where and when money is charged. Because the chance is almost 100% that the payment info by itself is out there already anyway.
Maybe in the wild west (USA), but not in Europe
I am tired of talking to a wall.. I guess some people just can't help but be themselves (or someone else)...
Why did they buy Velox if they didn't want low end customers? What unique infrastructure did Velox have that they couldn't replicate?
This is all a load of hogwash!
The first owner is sketchy at best, and the current owner cannot help themselves and kept mudding the water; which goes against their own interest.
It's because Lewis had lots of nvme and ram.
Eric should have listened to people around him.
According to my imagination, this is Eric Banks of Velox Media inc.
Oh, yes, no fraud in EU or GB? The scammers didn't call you? If call, then where they get the data? Oh no, from your phone provider 😂 I don't believe all this shit like GDPR helps, just one more reason for getting more money on penalties.
I'm silent about Balkan countries, Ukraine, Russia and other countries from USSR and etc. Some of them already EU, some will be in the future.
No reason to remember India or Bangladesh...
All world is wild except EU 😂 Come on...
@Calypso said:
Absolutely, just use few virtual cards for Internet spendings, and the card should be blocked all the time except time when you're buying something. When you will get unexpected authorization, which is failed, because the card is locked, just replace the card. With mobile banking and neobanks it's easy.
so it's time to open a ticket for refund if I don't want to stay? According to his last message. Does he mean that?
(I really don't want to go through Paypal bcs I think it's bad for everyone)