Is this for real?
 

Questions and investigations are currently under way to find out if THIS FORUM IS THE REAL THING or SD HAS BEEN HACKED, OR LEE SOLD SD.

If you notice in the TIPS SECTION the OLD MOD from SD logged in and created ad thread with some wiring diagrams and also put a LINK to his forum REBELS. WELL someone called him and he did NOT KNOW A THING ABOUT IT.

So be very carefull about using your business email or your home emails to register until it is investigated and find out if this is the REAL DEAL or SD has been HACKED. Create a couple of emails that you can blow away in a minute. So if your registering use those emails to protect yourself, and if a email comes to you using those EMAILS do not open them.
Lefty

They still wouldnt have access to your email account

lmao Uhh... huhhh? :hmm:

No but they sure can send you emails with a TROJAN and grab all your contacts emails and or wipe out your disk.

Anyway just a warning, like I said MEDMAN was called and he said he KNEW NOTHING about it and that HE DID NOT LOGIN and POST ANTHING Yet it shows that he logged in with wiring diagrams and he is from California.

So just a warning that is all until is it found if this is legit or not. If it is that is fine if not this will be short lived.
Lefty

Yea we should really get to the bottom of this!

Let me go get my tinfoil hat real quick..

lmao >D

That coming from an ADMIN on a real concern, not very professional and brings up even more red flags don't you think.
Lefty

I'm just teasing you. :cheers:

I do however find it a little funny that someone would go through all this trouble of designing an entire new forum from scratch for the past month, paying for the license, buying the domain name, hosting, and spending 3 straight days of transfering it over (with about 4 hours of total sleep time in those 3 days), in order to just steal a few emails from the members, to do absolutely nothing with. You gotta admit, it's a little far-fetched.

Even if it was 'hacked' (which it clearly wasn't.. you can ask Dawg/Lee), I think this is a much better option, don't ya think? :nod:

Ok well it seems all the data from the old forum is moved (well most of it) the old one is read only... The new one is awesome is ACTUALLY moderated for all i care the old scootdawg can go. I have used many of the forums features clicked on email links etc. Its fine guys even if it is unapproved. Medman was not the owner of the old one and he stated he couldn't reach the owner or take control of the forum from him so what ever happened happened. If you are going to hack a forum hack a BMW or Ducati site or maybe a Vespa site but why on earth would you want my identity I ride an old Suzuki I don't have any money steal my identity you may improve my credit score. No one is gonna hack a Chinese scooter site there is no money here.

Who are you anyway? How do we know you talked to any one. If medman was concerned about this he would have posted it himself

It has to be a conspiracy admin where is my tinfoil hat!!!

Admin..well so is true or not?.. a 'Lmao" doesn't tell us anything..

Whatever, the dude doesn't have a spare 5 minutes in the last 48 hours, but has time for phone calls... There is something fishy going on all right but the how and who is what is the question

lmoa means "whatever ya right." Medman was not the old forum's owner guys. What does the transfer of the site have to with him?? Once again any criminal worth his salt doesn't go looking to steal the identities of people who drive the least expensive vehicles made.

Hey Lefty,

Great to have you back. I hope you stick around!

Yes your right, but it appears nobody can get a hold of LEE. But like I said a few people have already inquired about this with pb and hopefully will get an answer soon good or bad. I hope it is LEGIT don't get me wrong but the way it was done is not good business and not smart. How about all the google hits for the old link will no longer come up. Also how about all the advertisers on the forum.

Reason this was brought up is MEDMAN was called and he knew nothing about it. But supposedly he or someone posted using his logon id. So with that, questions arose and things started to roll. For example many already know who you are your name address age and what not already, and no hacking had to be done to get that information.

Stealing Emails from people gets hackers into peoples computers that MOST have personal information on. The Emails are crap after a hacker gets what he wants off your computer. Its not the emails that count its what is on your computer that can be of use for hackers.
Lefty

It's no secret that Lee is a hard man to get intouch with, but I'm sure he'll chime in once he gets a chance.

The way it was done? I'm not sure what you mean by that. How else could it be done? It was done about as professionally as you can get. Not smart? Please, don't insult my intelligence. I've been running forums for over 13 years, I think I know what I'm doing.

Google hits? Not sure what you mean by that, but I think you mean that people searching via Google will be lost now. How? The search results will still direct to the old scootdawg forum (until they eventually direct to the new) which will in turn direct people to the new one.

And the advertisers... what about them? They're still here and are quite happy. lmao And as far as emails, you still need to 'hack' into someone's email, which would have been possible anyway. And trust me, your emails mean nothing to me, I have no use for them.

Got anything else?

Well I had a rolling banner on dawg proboards . I sent a message to the admin , how to get it back. I'm sure they are bogged down with messages. Lets see if by Monday I get a reply.

John

Whoa, Nelly. Having your e-mail address in no way gives hackers access to your computer. That is absolutely false. I've worked on computers and networks for 22 years and while I may know jack shid about scooters, I know computers.

Having your e-mail address will allow a so-inclined person to send you junk mail, or, to sign you up to receive a bunch of junk mail you don't want. This is why e-mail services have spam filters. On Yahoo! Mail, for example, you don't have to ever read spam. You just click "empty" on the spam folder or just set it up to automatically empty spam. Yes, some will still get through, but when you click on them as spam, the e-mail service's spam filters get sharpened, and more capable. It can be a slow process.

The paranoia about what somebody can do to you having only your e-mail address is not warranted. If you have your anti-virus stuff up to date, a capable firewall deployed, and your anti-malware/spyware/adware software defenses/scans active, you have nothing to worry about.

As far as the legitimacy of this forum, I'm still laughing at this brilliant line by scootnwinn and I totally agree with it: "No one is gonna hack a Chinese scooter site there is no money here." :clap:

John, I never received any emails or PMs from you. Where did you send it to?


Thank you to those that get it. :nod:

interesting. The forum looks amazing! I am not use to it tho. Gotta give it time. If anyone needs me ASAP email is scooterparts3@yahoo.com :) BTW if anyone can tell me how to change my name to Scooterelements here please do :)

All the info is in the first post of the thread in the "New Forum Support" forum under "Welcome to the NEW ScootDawg".

Well for all those genius computer guys, I started my career as a PROGRAMMER writing software for mainframes and then pcs, as well as security software for both.
All you have to do is find the loophole in the software to get around anything. You can only do and think of so many ways that someone can get around it. Miss a few and it is found and there goes that part of the checks in the software. That is why all your current security software is always being updatee. They can only update once it is britched to plug the hole or holes.
I am retired now but I started back in 1969 programming, the going lanugage then was RPG, BAL and COBOL and Fortran, then the pcs hit then your Script,Basic,GUIs using C and C++. Gui programmers were a dime a dozen coming out of college and they still are. Many companies used to get VISAs for Chinese and India programmers and bring them over and house them like cattle working for peanuts. So with your 22 years you still have to lot to learn.
Lefty

I got a reply to my message I sent to admin about my banner and he did respond and asked for a couple days to get it back on because he was extremely busy. I can understand that completely.

I could not figure out how to send pm to admin , so I sent it via contact us . The link at the bottom of the screen .

I can't seem to hide my link in my banner in my signature . Can you offer a solution ?
Admin may I ask your name , seems to be a mystery or no one has asked ?
John

Hi John
His name is Mike, he told us all in his fiirst posting
http://www.scootdawg.net/showthread.php?t=52570
And the only issue i have had so far is that there was no prior warning of the change over
It would have been nice to have a fews days notice
So far it seems ok
Take care and ride safely dear friend
Yours Hank

If you want I can email you all of his information he is from New York since your from there as well maybe you can go and visit.

This forum is registered for 1 year with GoDaddy.com for $9.99.
Lefty

Lefty you have an address for the admin ?

John

John if you are still online call me and I will help you get your signature fixed. I been thru it LOL

Unless you are hosting your own domain emails do give anyone access to your computer. Unless you open them and activate the malicious content they are just text on a screen snuggles spam and this forum are coincidences and nothing else quit scaring people. Spam in your spam folder is harmless unless you open it if you are retired stay retired there is no good reason for all this just because you weren't notified means nothing there is no proof anyone contacted medman

Yes I will email you the info
Lefty

Lefty can you post your name & address too, just so we know who you are? Can't ever be too careful these days, ya know?

And yes, my name is Mike... no mystery at all. It's all been stated. :tup:

I sent an email to Lee (Dawg), so I'm sure he'll post when he gets a chance. Hopefully that will calm down all you conspiracy theorists. :s

And by the way, the 'forum' is not registered with Godaddy, the domain is.. two different things. ;)

Regardless.. I have to extend a thank you to Lefty...and "job well done"...for he is merely looking out for our 'cyber safety' and has taken the time to do much research regarding the development of this new site.
So at the VERY least...a thank you and round of applause for his efforts in is need.
Thank you Lefty..
Glenn, aka..Yayiima benatigee ;)

Hi Mike
Pleased to meet you
Thank you ever so much for all that you have done:clap::tup:
Take care and ride safely
Yours Hank

Hi Glenn
+1 thanks lefty for looking out for us:tup:
Welcome back as well:clap::yay:
Take care and ride safely dear friends
Yours Hank

hey Mike , is this true your a newyorker ?

John

Yea, it's a ton of work to check a 'whois'. >D

Seriously though, I have no problem with it, but I think it's a little much. There's been absolutely no reason given to freak out this much, and it's probably scaring some people for nothing. I wonder, was Lee checked out this much when he first started the forum?

I could give a about it really, just a warning and don't take everything for granted that is all. Like i said I hope all this is LEGIT and there is a new KING on the thrown and a whole new forum look. Yes I am retired and living very well thank you, it is called planning for retirement and having everything you want when you want it.

As for prove of contacting medman that I cannot devulge that information some of us are smarter than you might think. But here is something that might interest you and many others:
Lefty

http://scooterrebels.proboards.com/i...ad=2183&page=1

Hi Hank, nice to meet ya! :cheers:

Yep, born and raised.

gee I'm in Queens and yourself ?

John