Account hack

[DBraz]

Hey guys,

I don’t post or visit this site much these days.  Not for a lack of love.  Life… 

Anyway, I hope you are all doing well. I play and record with my Hamer’s and Shishkov’s regularly.

But I am not currently selling any of them.  

Someone seems to have taken advantage of my absence and posted that they are selling guitars.  It looked like me,  but it wasn’t me.  My account has now been reset and this message is a polite point in case any of you were mislead.

Dbraz

[cornjulio]

Mad! Was that the brief FS thread for an Ultimate?

[Dave Scepter]

Wow, I almost bit on that Ultimate 😳 

Was your PM hacked as well?

Edited 22 hours ago by Dave Scepter

[cmatthes]

3 minutes ago, Dave Scepter said:

Wow, I almost bit on that Ultimate 😳 

Was your PM hacked as well?

It appears that DBraz' entire account was hacked by a Moroccan fraudster.  That's been shut down and he should be all good now, but definitely a reminder to change your passwords here, there and everywhere at least as often as when you change the batteries in the home smoke detectors!

[dgstandard]

Brutal

[velorush]

13 minutes ago, cmatthes said:

a Moroccan fraudster.

But seriously, sorry for your trouble and glad it got resolved. 

[DBraz]

Thanks guys.  And, for the record, if I had an Ultimate I certainly wouldn’t sell it.

I still adore my Shishkov’s.  Super-C 1 is fast approaching 10 years old and is as amazing as it ever was.   Both Super-C’s are incredible in their own way.

[Spinaltap]

a Moroccan fraudster,

it's almost funny, till it happens to you.  Good to hear it wasn't a $$ fix

[Saul Goodman]

I use really strong passwords like, qwerty123, password123, and bingo. I've never changed a password. Never been hacked.

[kizanski]

18 hours ago, cmatthes said:

...at least as often as when you change the batteries in the home smoke detectors!

You're supposed to change those?

[diablo175]

19 hours ago, cmatthes said:

It appears that DBraz' entire account was hacked by a Moroccan fraudster.  That's been shut down and he should be all good now, but definitely a reminder to change your passwords here, there and everywhere at least as often as when you change the batteries in the home smoke detectors!

Oops. 😬 

Ah well, at least I've now changed my password here:  M0roc@nFr@ud$ter. They'll never guess it.  

Edited 2 hours ago by diablo175

[velorush]

In all seriousness, if you've listened to the guys who came up with that 'one capital letter, one number, one lower case letter' paradigm, they've totally gone back on all that for more than five years. What they're recommending now are pass phrases (though I suppose the passkey will do away with all of this). There's a great pass phrase generator we use to great effect:

Correct Horse Battery Staple | Generate Secure Memorable Passwords

Give it a try. They're infinitely (well, almost) easier to remember and equally as difficult to hack.