Anyone else get a Qtum advertising PM?

[Roboabhishek]

It happened in past with me a guy was sending PM to me on a mass amount daily and once I replied he sent me a link likely scam intent.
I suggest everyone be precautious when you get these P'Messages.

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[xLays]

I received another pm from a newbie. And reported it immediately. Don't click the links. Probably a malware to hack your accounts and destroying the reputation of Qtum Project.

[kalisto]

also got this pm but apparently the mods banned the user as the message got removed from my inbox, good job.

[Qtum]

Please report them the moment they arrive. If you see messages like this coming from a "Qtum-Patrick" or "Qtum-Patirck" on Slack channels you frequent, report those also.

[DomainMagnate]

I also got the pm with following subject
The Qtum Test Network Has Been Released!
Qtum is doing itself harm by sending spam messages

[Qtum]

I also got the pm with following subject
The Qtum Test Network Has Been Released!
Qtum is doing itself harm by sending spam messages

We are not sending the messages, and no one is doing it on our behalf. We don't know why this is happening, it could be an attack on our project, or it could be an individual or a group that is trying to lower the price of our tokens to get more.

It's a bit suspicious that our site was ddos'd the same day these spam messages started, and multiple Slack channels were being spammed by Qtum-Patirck, which was obviously fake.

Back in January/February we had this same type of behavior on our Slack channel from someone spamming almost identical messages about another project.

[kalisto]

seems another user is sending the same spam again, just received a new message a few hours ago

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=74535

[Qtum]

There is also an ongoing DDoS on our website, which started a few hours after the first spam messages appeared:

[DrMsEr]

What a height of spam messages...

Qtum Test Network Launch in Shanghai:

The Qtum team hosted a launch event in Shanghai two days ago to celebrate the Test Network release. So far the network is running well, and tokens

are available for anyone interested. The source code is available on our github:

https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum/releases/tag/testnet-sparknet

Instructions on how to compile from source are listed in the Git. Please see the documentation provided:

Code:

Quickstart

Build on Ubuntu

This is a quick start script for compiling Qtum on  Ubuntu


sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils git cmake libboost-all-dev
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev

# If you want to build the Qt GUI:
sudo apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler

git clone https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum
cd qtum
# Update cpp-ethereum submodule
git submodule update --init --recursive 

# Note autogen will prompt to install some more dependencies if needed
./autogen.sh
./configure 
make -j2

More information on how to use smart contracts with qtum may be found in our official thread


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1720632.msg19812821#msg19812821





We also launch a block explorer - https://qtum.info


Please feel free to look over the code, and submit any feedback you may have. If you would like some Test Network tokens, so they are now available on our

Faucet: http://qtum.me , simply add your QTUM address and hit enter!


More news

The Qtum team is live in Moscow at the http://blockchainhack.ru/ hackathon!




Wish the participants good luck as they compete for 8500 Qtum tokens. This is live in Moscow July 1st-2nd

The website will working soon.

IF YOU ARE A TALENTED DEVELOPER, SEND YOUR RESUME TO OUR EMAIL: QTUM@QTUM.ORG

[Qtum]

What a height of spam messages...

Qtum Test Network Launch in Shanghai:

The Qtum team hosted a launch event in Shanghai two days ago to celebrate the Test Network release. So far the network is running well, and tokens

are available for anyone interested. The source code is available on our github:

https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum/releases/tag/testnet-sparknet

Instructions on how to compile from source are listed in the Git. Please see the documentation provided:

Code:

Quickstart

Build on Ubuntu

This is a quick start script for compiling Qtum on  Ubuntu


sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils git cmake libboost-all-dev
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev

# If you want to build the Qt GUI:
sudo apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler

git clone https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum
cd qtum
# Update cpp-ethereum submodule
git submodule update --init --recursive 

# Note autogen will prompt to install some more dependencies if needed
./autogen.sh
./configure 
make -j2

More information on how to use smart contracts with qtum may be found in our official thread


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1720632.msg19812821#msg19812821





We also launch a block explorer - https://qtum.info


Please feel free to look over the code, and submit any feedback you may have. If you would like some Test Network tokens, so they are now available on our

Faucet: http://qtum.me , simply add your QTUM address and hit enter!


More news

The Qtum team is live in Moscow at the http://blockchainhack.ru/ hackathon!




Wish the participants good luck as they compete for 8500 Qtum tokens. This is live in Moscow July 1st-2nd

The website will working soon.

IF YOU ARE A TALENTED DEVELOPER, SEND YOUR RESUME TO OUR EMAIL: QTUM@QTUM.ORG

Very interesting, take a look at this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=192243.1660

You can see the multiple spam accounts posting small parts of their messages. If you look at the post history of the account that sent that message.

[Bitcoinsummoner]

I thought i'm the only one who receive this messages privately i just receive 2 times pm to me and 2 different old account made 2011 and 2013..
This is another attack from the hacker who hack the old database of bitcoin and i think they are the same person who hack the database.. and now trying to encourage people to apply if you are developer they can hired you this is the same as someone who working on black market and hiring someone in services section before to work to them..
Hope that this forum will not down or not be the same as before..

[onnz423]

I got one as well. It is kind of annoying, because it is spammy.
I received a PM on two accounts, on different days.
I suggest anyone leave a negative feedback on the user that they received the PM from, because i think spamming users PM's is unacceptable.