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Title: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: mewantsbitcoins on June 10, 2011, 12:48:34 PM
Anyone else got this shit?

Hi Jason,

Long time I have not seen you on IRC? What's up?
I do not know if you still use DiabloMiner on your GPU cluster?

I have bought the same config you have and I have tested DiabloMiner
on it. I can produce 3Gh/s. That's quite good.

Yesterday I have talked with Alex, he has developped an optimizated version of DiabloMiner.
He has committed the soft on github: https://github.com/speedygonzalez/OptDiabloMinerII

I have tested it, it's quite good, I can produce 1Gh/s more. You may try it...

I hope to see you soon on IRC!!!

===
Uwe


Oops,
My last mail was not for you, do no consider it.
Sorry,

===
Uwe




Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: rezin777 on June 10, 2011, 12:51:05 PM
Yes. Just started a thread as well.

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14510.msg196068#msg196068 (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14510.msg196068#msg196068)


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: mewantsbitcoins on June 10, 2011, 01:02:35 PM
It looks that it's only two of us. Interesting..


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: rezin777 on June 10, 2011, 01:09:20 PM
It looks that it's only two of us. Interesting..

Very strange. Did you happen to report the messages? I think one of us should, but I don't want to add clutter to the admins work load.


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: mewantsbitcoins on June 10, 2011, 01:11:21 PM
No, I haven't, but will do.


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: gentakin on June 10, 2011, 01:25:29 PM
This might even be a license violation, depending on the diablo miner license. I can't find the source for this "optimized" diablo.

Of course, as this guy is a scammer, he probably doesn't care about licenses. Maybe the diablo dev should report him to github?


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: nelisky on June 10, 2011, 01:35:24 PM
Got it, posted on irc, got directed here.

The forum message volume is starting to make it hard to keep up and know these threads exist. Oh, and I was called Pat, not Jason ;)


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: Zagitta on June 10, 2011, 01:37:00 PM
Hmm i've had a look at it in a dissassembler and haven't found anything suspecious... Be cautious about running it tough, i might have missed something


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: gmaxwell on June 10, 2011, 01:39:43 PM
Anyone else got this shit?

No, but I looked inside the binaries provided and two things are obvious:


(1) The code has been through a java obfuscator (ProGuard), so it's hard to tell what it's doing.

(2) The CL code, however, is unchanged from the normal diablominer.

_Hopefully_ this just connects you to some other pool.   But I am not even that optimistic.

If you have run this on a computer with a wallet.dat I think you should treat that wallet as compromised.



Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: DiabloD3 on June 10, 2011, 05:44:13 PM
I reported it to GitHub as a GPL violation. Lets see what happens.


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: [Tycho] on June 10, 2011, 05:46:07 PM
I received it too.


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: Viro on June 10, 2011, 05:52:28 PM
Why do internet scammers always use funky words like "optimizated"?


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: DiabloD3 on June 10, 2011, 06:04:56 PM
Why do internet scammers always use funky words like "optimizated"?

funroll loops, extra opthamilalized


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: Insti on June 10, 2011, 06:05:59 PM
I got these two messages different to/from names from: "SilverKnife"


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: d.james on June 10, 2011, 06:31:57 PM
wooot diablo II was fun,
can't wait for Diablo III

~by blizzard ofcourse  :D


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: LegitBit on June 10, 2011, 06:36:44 PM
I have never seen a scammer with perfect English... but wait, maybe that is why...


OH MY GAAWW--


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: DiabloD3 on June 10, 2011, 06:40:26 PM
wooot diablo II was fun,
can't wait for Diablo III

~by blizzard ofcourse  :D

My nick predates Blizzard Entertainment, Co.


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: Oldminer on June 10, 2011, 06:59:32 PM
Why do internet scammers always use funky words like "optimizated"?

Cos their Chinese and dont know how to spell


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: doomy on June 10, 2011, 07:01:22 PM
What worries me is that there are people who'd fall for this.


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: LegitBit on June 10, 2011, 07:02:29 PM
Why do internet scammers always use funky words like "optimizated"?

Cos their Chinese and dont know how to spell

*facepalm*


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: RyNinDaCleM on June 10, 2011, 07:10:31 PM
Why do internet scammers always use funky words like "optimizated"?

Cos their Chinese and dont know how to spell

*facepalm*

:D Hahahaha! :D


@OP
Did these come in E-Mail, or PM?


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: mewantsbitcoins on June 10, 2011, 07:50:43 PM
pm


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: syn on June 10, 2011, 07:53:27 PM
I got it also (to my other account).


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: snoopytime on June 10, 2011, 08:16:08 PM
Here is the article from chineedGoldfarmeder.cn:

"everyone knowing the WOW gold sucked. All wite deviled playing the no more! As now you knowing to trying BITCOIN! Get that paper, Niggered!"


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: wol-va-rine on June 10, 2011, 08:26:07 PM
Why do internet scammers always use funky words like "optimizated"?

Cos their Chinese and dont know how to spell

*facepalm*

indeed, and how many Asian dudes have you ever met named Uwe (even though it's a fake name...lol), sounds European to me...


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: theymos on June 11, 2011, 02:56:32 AM
A ton of people got these. I banned the sender after getting mewantsbitcoins's report. I didn't clear the PMs (since doing this is complicated), but I marked his account to warn people.


Title: Re: SCAM ALERT! Anyone else got this shit?
Post by: nathanrees19 on June 11, 2011, 05:33:42 AM
I tried to run this in a VM to see what it would do, it couldn't even load the main class :(