Anyone else get a Qtum advertising PM?

[DarkStar_]

I got this PM from user luxgladius advertising the launch of Qtum, even though I never talked about Qtum, almost never use the altcoin sections, or participated in any of their campaigns. luxgladius is an account created back in 2011, and has not made a post since then. One of the accounts I am holding as collateral also got the exact same PM from Skunkworks.

Now I'm wondering if anyone else got a PM. I'm guessing a lot of people did from many different accounts, but would like to know for sure.

!!! WARNING: This user is a newbie. If you are expecting a message from a more veteran member, then this is an imposter !!!
The Qtum Test Network is being released shortly! We would like to formally invite you to our event to celebrate this big milestone for our Blockchain project!
The testnet is scheduled to go live on June 28th. If you are in Shanghai, we hope to see you at our Launch Meetup.
If you're a developer, you can get started creating applications on top of Qtum and prepare to launch them once we release Qtum's mainnet in September.
 
Please see our Technical Whitepaper - https://qtum.org/en/white-papers
 
Also we would like to inform you that few days ago Qtum cost reached 20$ and this is only the beginning.
 
Qtum (Pre-Launch) is trading on 4 markets - https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/qtum/#markets
 
 
More great news:
 
The Qtum project sponsors the http://blockchainhack.ru/ 
Join Qtum in Moscow for our first Hackathon! July 1st with $100,000.00 in tokens.
 
Join The Discussion
We launched the Qtum forum where we will publish official Qtum updates and engage with the community. The Dev Team will be taking part, so, you can ask questions about how you can get
 
started developing on Qtum once the testnet is live - https://forum.qtum.org/
 
You can also discuss on our official #Slack - https://qtumslack.herokuapp.com/ or on bitcointalk forum - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1720632.0
 
Social media:
https://www.facebook.com/QtumOfficial
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa4iVp5iMC8gijxBvzZI3UA
 
IF YOU ARE A TALENTED DEVELOPER, SEND YOUR RESUME TO OUR EMAIL: QTUM@QTUM.ORG

This is against the unofficial forum rules.

29. Sending unsolicited PMs, including but not limited to advertising and flood, is not allowed.

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[Muhammed Zakir]

Yes. From asd4 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=14162.

P.S. It seems they have bought old newbie accounts in bulk? Was there any (bulk) sale recently?

[dillpicklechips]

Same as you but in a different user named klapeck and contains the exact and the same word that was pmed to you. I am wondering why the hell did they send me this since I do not wander in the Altcoin section much. The account klapeck is also created way back 2011 and is a newbie. I didn't click any link they send since I read some threads regarding phising link.

I have a group taking about Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies which they tackle more about ICOs and never heard they mentioned Qtum and it is quiet suspicious since I also check the other users who are included to the recipients and looking for our common denominator and seems there is none.

BEWARE: Do not click any suspicious links.

[hilariousandco]

There have been dozens of them banned today. They're using hacked accounts mostly registered in 2011. Just report them and they get banned pretty quick.

[theymos]

I wiped all of those spam PMs, and the senders are all banned.

[DarkStar_]

I wiped all of those spam PMs, and the senders are all banned.

There have been dozens of them banned today. They're using hacked accounts mostly registered in 2011. Just report them and they get banned pretty quick.

Any plans on banning Qtum, since it's almost definitely them/their team behind the spam?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Didn't get a PM from them, but they and their old campaign manager,  BlackMambaPH, are corrupt and censoring to the core.  Did that garbage project ever turn a profit for anyone other than them?  Didn't think so.   Hope they get banned and it'll be a better world without them.   Good riddance.

[theymos]

Any plans on banning Qtum, since it's almost definitely them/their team behind the spam?

Without strong evidence, I can't ban the subject of spam because then you could get anyone banned by spamming "for" them.

[ImHash]

This forum should be renamed to altcointalk.org seriously all I see every day are just silly and stupid altcoin topics. I ignored their PM after I read QTUM.
I think we just need a coin for pregnancy, because that's what we are pregnant of these fu*kers

[BitHodler]

Any plans on banning Qtum, since it's almost definitely them/their team behind the spam?

Without strong evidence, I can't ban the subject of spam because then you could get anyone banned by spamming "for" them.

That makes sense. If bans would be handed out that easy, you could basically take out competitors by making it look like they are spamming the forum, while in fact it's a completely different entity.

Isn't it an idea to optionally allow people to block PMs coming from newbies? It cost zero effort to create an account and to start spamming, while reaching jr member status at least requires some sort of effort.

[hilariousandco]

Any plans on banning Qtum, since it's almost definitely them/their team behind the spam?

Without strong evidence, I can't ban the subject of spam because then you could get anyone banned by spamming "for" them.

Isn't it an idea to optionally allow people to block PMs coming from newbies? It cost zero effort to create an account and to start spamming, while reaching jr member status at least requires some sort of effort.

I've suggested this before especially when people can and do just create new accounts to spam pm you once you block an account. In this case though not all of them were newbie accounts as they were using older hacked ones.

[bitkilo]

I think i may have also got one of these spam PM's but I'm guessing the member was banned and all his sent PM's deleted. Now i have an inbox marked with 1 unread PM but no message to clear, anyone know how i can clear this error?

[Qtum]

These messages were not sent or endorsed by anyone on the Qtum team. We can't tell if it's an individual or group that's trying to harm the project, or increase the price for their own benefit.

The timing of these messages is suspicious, we were doing a big event on the same day, and our site was DDoS'd.

If anyone has evidence of the people behind this, please send it directly to the forum's administrators.

We had incidents in the past where our signature campaign was causing spam, and that was one of the reasons we ended it early.

[electronicash]

These messages were not sent or endorsed by anyone on the Qtum team. We can't tell if it's an individual or group that's trying to harm the project, or increase the price for their own benefit.

The timing of these messages is suspicious, we were doing a big event on the same day, and our site was DDoS'd.

If anyone has evidence of the people behind this, please send it directly to the forum's administrators.

We had incidents in the past where our signature campaign was causing spam, and that was one of the reasons we ended it early.

ask yourselves. your team didn't hire bounty whores to somehow distribute your tokens. you bought your tokens yourselves and hire an army of spammers for its awareness. its all classic.    you harmed your project yourselves by making it a scam.

[xLays]

I also received that PM.
I think someone is destroying qtum project reputation here in BTT..

EDIT: I can't find now in my inbox.

[Muhammed Zakir]

I also received that PM.
I think someone is destroying qtum project reputation here in BTT..

EDIT: I can't find now in my inbox.

theymos deleted them.

I wiped all of those spam PMs, and the senders are all banned.

[erikalui]

Yes, and I reported the PMs too. The user is sending these messages on all slack channels too and I did not click on any of those links as they can be malware/phishing links. Are those hacked accounts? They haven't been posting since 2011-12.

Edit: Got 2 more today

[spandreev]

I also received that PM.
I think someone is destroying qtum project reputation here in BTT..

EDIT: I can't find now in my inbox.

theymos deleted them.

I wiped all of those spam PMs, and the senders are all banned.

I received PM from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=82923
Date of the message Today at 07:27:43 PM

[earlz]

Please report these PMs and any future PMs of this nature. Whoever is doing this spamming was not asked on our behalf and it makes people annoyed with us. Whoever is spamming with all these PMs should be banned

[passivebesiege]

Almost all active member here receive that message   i also receive this message.

Any plans on banning Qtum, since it's almost definitely them/their team behind the spam?

Without strong evidence, I can't ban the subject of spam because then you could get anyone banned by spamming "for" them.

Agree I think the one who need to ban is the member who's send those messages.