27 replies to this topic

[EricDrinkard]

Some one or some thing is sending out emails to the cpanel users of trap17.com stating that their account is suspended. The email looks legit, however your hosting credits and site are all ok. If you are having this problem please reply and state the situation.

(please do not reply if your hosting credits are not positive)



Thanks
Eric Drinkard

[Amezis]

A quote from the email i received some hours ago:

Quote

Hello Amezis,

We are sorry to inform you that, your web hosting account at has been suspended due to your prolonged inactivity or Lack of Hosting credits. We had dispatched a warning email to all the members so that they could check their hosting credits.
[...]
If you want to un-suspend your hosting account, you will have to make posts at our forums and collect the required number of hosting credits. Once you have sufficient amount of credits, your account will be un-suspended automatically.
[...]

Then, I firstly checked my site. It was working well... Then I checked my hosting credits: 15.12 days...

So... What's happening?

If I'm breaking the TOS or something like that, please say it to me... But I don't think I'm doing that

[NilsC]

It's a spam email that seem to come from a comptetitor. I have asked every member that receive one this emails to extract the header files so I can report them. If you still have the email and know how to extract it. please do so and PM or email the data to me.

Nils

[Florisjuh]

Dont worry, its another spam email. Your hosting accaunt is safe and not suspended

[talbotda13]

I have gotten several of those emails and i only kept one. i looked at my hosting credits here. ive been to mywebsite and everything so i just figured it was a non-sense spam email

[guangdian]

It's a spam email that seem to come from a comptetitor.

The comptetior plays a role of hacker over & over again.I hope you should keep the server must safer! coz their highest achiver is to hack into your server & delete all they saw....

[Amezis]

Ok, ok, thanks for the info. But the e-mail is hidden. <administrator@> is everything I get in "from:"....

[Becca]

MAn that is soo cruel. Who would do such... the internet world is so dangerous and e e e e VIL.
Did it say it was from trap17.com ??

[Galahad]

Well, I received a certain e-mail from "Management <administrator>", and I forwarded it to Trap 17 abuse email.

Here are full headers from that e-mail...

X-Apparently-To: =my_email=@yahoo.com via 216.155.196.65; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:05:54 -0800
Authentication-Results: mta140.mail.dcn.yahoo.com
  from=; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
X-Originating-IP: [69.50.187.114]
Return-Path: <trap17@dasher.psychz.net>
Received: from 69.50.187.114  (EHLO dasher.psychz.net) (69.50.187.114)
  by mta140.mail.dcn.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:05:38 -0800
Received: from trap17 by dasher.psychz.net with local (Exim 4.44)
        id 1DBpvF-0001LX-DW; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:00:01 -0800
To: =my_email=@yahoo.com
Subject:  : HOSTING ACCOUNT SUSPENDED.
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
To:=my_email=@yahoo.com
From:  Management <administrator@>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:00:01 -0800
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - dasher.psychz.net
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - yahoo.com
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32257 32258] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - dasher.psychz.net
X-Source: 
X-Source-Args: 
X-Source-Dir: 
Content-Length: 849

Now, I dont think that Trap 17 admins have administrator@ email... Nor that they would send account suspension notices from administrators e-mail... I could be wrong though...

However, trap17@dasher.psychz.net is definitely a suspicious e-mail address, for someone like Trap 17 to use I mean, they provide web hosting, paid AND free, would they use some weird mail server, or just use something@trap17.com? Hope they catch this lamer

[mahesh2k]

oh my god that is spam but who the hell can do this do you able to trace the domain name of email sender?