Anyone else get this PM?
 

The Ultimate Rally - Summer 2006
To the best drivers on earth:

The Ultimate Rally is the world championship of street racing.
7 days, 3000 miles, 200mph and US$ 2 million prize money.

If you are a fast driver with a powerful car & balls of steel
checkout our offical website: http://www.*************.com/

The Ultimate Rally is limited to 100 cars and the entry fee
is US$ 30,000. See our terms & conditions and apply here:
http://www.*************.com/application.html

Join our official Forums at http://board.*************.com/
and learn more about this next generation Cannonball Run.

Greetings,

Kimble
Founder of the Ultimate Rally.
www.kimble.org


(I would be do it in a hearbeat, I just have to find 30 large laying around my house and tell my wife I'll be gone for a few weeks. Yeah, right!)

Yes I got it too

Yes, who gave out the list addresses?

Yep, me too. I'd like to know how they were able to send PMs to all of us.

Me too @ 5:31 Pacific Time.

Not only did I get this PM here at the board, it also came to my home e-mail address. Kinda curious where they got the info.

Call this another "me too"... WTF?

No PM, but it did come to my home e-mail?

PM & pelican e-mail

Me too, not too fond if this...
Emails on mailboxes through here are not good news.

pm and my email

Me too.

Got it, and have already sent in my entrants fee......woo hoo 2 Mill here I come......that will be enough to finish my early project car.


C2

Re: Anyone else get this PM?
 

Yep

PM and E-mail
but I must of misplaced my

I didn't open the e-mail :)

Got both to. I'd be interested to know how he was able to get ahold of the addresses to mass mail.

A shame too, because it is a topic that could probably held its own on the board without the invasion of privacy.

Oh, maybe it's for real, but can we say "scam"???

Having done this type of event before, I can tell you that $30k would barely cover what is included in the event. The air transport alone is 25% of the cost. replacement car if you wreck yours??? So where do they get the 2 milion purse? The route is probably through Iran/ Iraq....


Run away, run away....

The board's running slow. I'll bet it has something to do with PM and e-mail spam. I got both from someone named "BannanaJoe".

I got the email but not the PM....don't like the thought of this. PP has my credit card info on file, is it safe?

Bill W.

Got the e-mail but not the PM. The enemy is at the gates.....

got it too....

it's from that kimble dude who runs in the gummball rally


rich internet /stock exchange fraudster ( got caught and all but apparently managed to keep his money )


drives around with his mercedes like an idiot for kicks
allready caused one accident in antwerp , belgium

he denied that he was speeding at the time of the accident , said he only did 50km/u .. but can't deny that he was doing way more the day before , it was on the 8 o clock news from video...



and seems to have started his own gumball now... piece of **** if you ask me...

Add me to the list.
They havent seen Stay Puff I would guess.
Hopefully some one from PP is looking into this.

I didn't get one. I must drive too slow.

ditto.. cable browser here. I'm gonna try a disc clean.

He paid one of his internet cronies to write a script to PM each pelican user. It's not hard to scrape the screens with a script. I think a ban is in order, he should have just posted it.

he probably made it himself, he's a computer geek

banning won't help much , he'll just create a new user name, seems like he allready has 3 names ( probably to send faster , PP limits to one message per xx seconds)

Count me in!

This guy also sent e-mails to Rennlist users. I all sounds like a big scam. He's asking for an insanely low amount of money for a big budget event and huge prize package. Can't we report him to someone?

IP ban time

put me down in the "not gotten" collum.

The Ultimate Rally is a sponsor at 6speedonline! I'm going to ask their web administrators why one of their sponsors is spaming Rennlist and Pelican Parts.

2:45 am...got the PM, but no e-mail. put me in the category for actually needing a $$$ sponsor...:(
ryan

Got the "love note" as well.

I checked "NO", wadded it up and threw it back at 'em.

Perhaps we ought to ask Wayne how this is possible on his Board!!!!!

I got it as well at my home email! Luckily I have balls of steel and I'm not too upset.

that's not difficult

there's the adress book
then you make a script
make a couple of fake users
the you feed the adress book to the script
which in turn pipes it through the different users...

you can't prevent this sort of crap ,

well you could , but you need 24/7 coverage of your server
and limit basically everything you can do on the board.


the board has a limitation of 1 message per user , per every 60 seconds, i suppose they could increase this interval to say 180 seconds, which wouldn't be too bad at all, but all it would do , is slow down the script by a factor of 3, in return , all they would need to do , is create 3 times more fake users , and they are back up to normal speed

they could ip ban the source of the spam , but my guess is , they will simply switch to another ip and or ip range...


really , there is very little you can do about this , except ride out the storm and hope it doesn't happen too often



i heard there's new antispam laws in the US , maybe some lawyer can give it a go , but the cost is probably high , and the payoff too little to make it worthwile...

so almost every other message I get has a [deny] option this one does not, anyone know why?

Jim

We could use our own hacks to do a DOS attack on Kimble....

correction...i found it in my junk e-mail as well...nasirtdinov@gmail.com
ryan

we should just maintain our 'low profile' of letting him know that we're onto him in the meantime... ;)

The only way to prevent this is the anti-robot "show an image of random funky numbers/letters" and make the user type them, for every PM. Sounds like too much trouble to me.

I got it PM and HOME

"Balls of Steel" with a $30K in, I would need balls of GOLD!

PS: now PPBBS is WAY SLOWWWWWW>>>>


HIS ONLY POST SO FAR:

"Yeah man, horrormovies are very cool"