Scam purporting to be from PanFandom.com

[prillalar]

I've reported this to PayPal and also used the form on the PanFandom site, but I thought I'd post here as well. I got a message this morning, allegedly from the PanFandom.com site, which has been inactive for quite a while now, asking me to donate money to some random gmail address. It looks like it was actually sent from the site -- some security

Comments

[cathexys]

i got the same thing and was pretty annoyed! glad you went and did something!!!

[cathexys]

also, how old was the person writing this??

i can't believe panfandom had "didn't disturbed you" in their default...

[prillalar]

Yeah, I was going to just delete it, but I was worried it would actually catch a few people.

[akatonbo]

Sending email that looks, to the casual observer, like it came from the site doesn't require a security hole, but sending email specifically to people who are associated with the site does.

[prillalar]

Yeah. The full headers, which I didn't post, looked like it had come from the site itself, though I wouldn't stake my reputation on it. I didn't google to see about security probs with Nuke, but it wouldn't surprise me. And of course a dormant site doesn't get patched.

[disutansu]

Sadly there are people who believe worse stories. *has such faith in humanity...* [/sarcasm]

[prillalar]

So true.