This was a bot, it sent to 181 people automatically, usually our captcha stops all bots from registering, but every now and then, some assfart will create the account manually and then run his bot, which in this case sent a PM to 181 people, which in turn sent 181 emails from my contact[tophat]piratemc.com.

Why do people do this? Because we run wordpress, wordpress is notorious for being attacked as its so widely used throughout the internet, which means there’s a ton of hackers 🙁

Good news is, we shut the account down fast as fish, bad news is that their bot sent 181 emails out.

We have never mass emailed a PirateCraft news letter, so this is utterly gutting that the first mass email is a known scam for a bot pretending to be a 42 year old widow giving away 10% of their wealth. For anyone out there that has never come across spam like this, its rare nowadays to get spam (If you use gmail) don’t respond, just delete the email, and for the love of god please don’t flag it as spam, because you’ll be flagging me, not them, all emails came through my email system, they used the PM system here to send their message (Fuckers!).

If you google the message its all over the internet.

Delete it, forget about it and move on.

I have implemented a limit on how many PM’s can be sent per 5 mins now.