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Title: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: Inspector 2211 on February 03, 2013, 04:51:32 AM ...and the prime suspect is Avalon. Stress out the customer support of the competition a little bit...
I registered for news from Avalon just a few days ago, in order to be in the loop about batch 2 and subsequent batches, but not in my wildest dreams would I have thought that they harvest my password and use it to place 5 fake orders with BFL for a total of 8 FPGA singles. If the Avalon folks are innocent of this bizarre scheme, I apologize. But if it walks like a duck, squawks like a duck... -Harry C. Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: GoodStuff on February 03, 2013, 04:55:16 AM Didn't even know you could still buy FPGA singles from BFL's website... ???
Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: Inspector 2211 on February 03, 2013, 05:02:17 AM Didn't even know you could still buy FPGA singles from BFL's website... ??? I don't know, either, but I just got 5 order confirmation emails for 2+2+2+1+1 FPGA singles from BFL. Very odd. Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: GoodStuff on February 03, 2013, 05:06:30 AM Well, you didn't happen to buy anything from BFL before have you?
Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: kjj on February 03, 2013, 05:08:37 AM You use the same password on both sites?
Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: tripper22 on February 03, 2013, 05:08:55 AM I just received an email claiming that the I ordered a bfl single.
Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: Inspector 2211 on February 03, 2013, 05:13:04 AM You use the same password on both sites? I use two passwords - one for mailing lists, online shopping and such, and the other for banking. So, yes, I did use the same password for BFL and for Avalon. Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: GoodStuff on February 03, 2013, 05:13:25 AM I just received an email claiming that the I ordered a bfl single. I have a feeling that Avalon's email list has been compromised... I think so too. Bitsyncom was saying the shopping site for Avalon was being DDOS'ed a couple of days before the launch of Batch #2 sales. Now with the whole WalletBit fiasco, I think some competitor is trying to ruin Avalon.Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on February 03, 2013, 05:14:57 AM Surely, shipping addressed on orders for Batch #2 won't be change, can they?
Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: Inspector 2211 on February 03, 2013, 05:16:13 AM I just received an email claiming that the I ordered a bfl single. I have a feeling that Avalon's email list has been compromised... I think so too. Bitsyncom was saying the shopping site for Avalon was being DDOS'ed a couple of days before the launch of Batch #2 sales. Now with the whole WalletBit fiasco, I think some competitor is trying to ruin Avalon.I think this is the other way around - vendor A wants to prevent vendor B from shipping product, by creating a huge workload for their sales department and customer support. Just my 2 cents... Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: SysRun on February 03, 2013, 05:23:05 AM I received an email from BFL at about 7PM PST this evening and the link was http://localhost/butterflylabs.com/customer/account/
I'm assuming BFL had a misfire on the customer portal they've been working on. the email is unique to BFL correspondence, so its doubtful that avalon is responsible. Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: Inspector 2211 on February 03, 2013, 05:24:21 AM Well, you didn't happen to buy anything from BFL before have you? Did, too. A total of 25 singles and a Minirig. 30 grand, man. Made it back, too... Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: Epoch on February 03, 2013, 05:29:27 AM I received an email from BFL at about 7PM PST this evening and the link was http://localhost/butterflylabs.com/customer/account/ Agreed. Similar experience here.I'm assuming BFL had a misfire on the customer portal they've been working on. the email is unique to BFL correspondence, so its doubtful that avalon is responsible. Nothing to see here, folks; move along. Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: tripper22 on February 03, 2013, 05:31:54 AM I just received an email claiming that the I ordered a bfl single. I have a feeling that Avalon's email list has been compromised... I think so too. Bitsyncom was saying the shopping site for Avalon was being DDOS'ed a couple of days before the launch of Batch #2 sales. Now with the whole WalletBit fiasco, I think some competitor is trying to ruin Avalon.I think this is the other way around - vendor A wants to prevent vendor B from shipping product, by creating a huge workload for their sales department and customer support. Just my 2 cents... I hope you're right. Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: GoodStuff on February 03, 2013, 05:32:21 AM Well, if all these people getting BFL emails did not sign up for Avalon's mailing list, then it couldn't be Avalon's fault and instead was more likely an error by BFL as it had been suggested earlier in this thread.
Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: cedivad on February 03, 2013, 08:26:20 AM WORDPRESS.
Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: Easy2Mine on February 03, 2013, 11:34:23 AM I odered from BFL and Avalon with the same email address.
I haven't received weird emails from one of them. Simply check the email headers and look where the email real coming from. Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: MPOE-PR on February 03, 2013, 12:15:53 PM Strateman now working for BFL? Great move, spread some of that sweet Intersangro / Bitcoinica Consultancy know-how around.
Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: wknight on February 03, 2013, 02:34:04 PM That or Lastpass. Not sure why anyone would use the same password anywhere else
Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: k on February 03, 2013, 02:40:41 PM Strateman now working for BFL? Am I missing something? link/evidence please. Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: Inaba on February 03, 2013, 05:05:05 PM I'm checking into this. I think there was an import of old orders into our new ordering system last night and for some reason it was set to email people. I think it only affected a few people. I'm not saying this is the case for 100%, and I'm still investigating, but it's possible. We have been working on our new shopping cart/ordering system/backend for awhile now and it's almost ready, so it's entirely possible something leaked out in the form of an email when we imported the old data.
Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: MPOE-PR on February 03, 2013, 05:09:22 PM Strateman now working for BFL? Am I missing something? link/evidence please. Remember back when Intersangro sent everyone an email containing everyone else in the To: field? Title: Re: Someone just ordered 8 BFL FPGA singles under my name... Post by: k on February 03, 2013, 05:22:17 PM Strateman now working for BFL? Am I missing something? link/evidence please. Remember back when Intersangro sent everyone an email containing everyone else in the To: field? OK I get what you mean now. :) Missed the ?mark originally and thought you meant Strateman was actually working for BFL and was thinking WTF? |