I am making this post as a normal user and anything expressed in it is my own opinions.
I received an email from support@sigaint.org earlier this afternoon claiming that he was bringing the service back up and would be charging for access to accounts. The email claimed he had been hit by the feds and this was why he shutdown. He claimed the feds had gained access to the private key of the sigaint onion, therefore he would be using a new onion address. The email requested I make an announcement on my own service about this as users might be interested in paying to delete the content of their accounts.
This was almost certainly a spoofed email so I am posting this as a warning to any user or vendor who is contacted. The message was not signed with Sigaint's key and sounded nothing like sigaint. It also was not like Sigaint to try to extort funds in this way. I remember a lot of users on here were really frustrated by the loss of their accounts and one even offered to pay a lot of money to recover the content, which is probably why this email shit started up. I would be surprised if users on the sub aren't targeted.
Whoever sent this email was said there would be an onion up in a few days. This isn't the real deal so don't fall for it. This is a good reminder to always require gpg proof about important stuff.
I've requested a signed message and in the nearly impossible scenario that this is the real Sigaint I will post the signed message here and update the post.
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