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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: Cyclone on October 05, 2013, 05:19 am

Title: Warning message about SR seizure a week before actual seizure!
Post by: Cyclone on October 05, 2013, 05:19 am
I haven't seen a thread on this maybe someone else made one and I overlooked it.

About a week maybe two weeks before the seizure of SR I received a message on SR from a user named "VENDOR SUPPORT" all caps not "Vendor Support"(actual SR vendor support)

The message stated that Homeland Security, FBI, DEA are about to seize SR and take it down. The message said SR is being backed up at an alternative site and gave an .onion address. It also said to move all your bitcoins to the backup bitcoin address provided. I disregarded it as spam/scam at the time and promptly deleted the message. I believe two days late I got a message from Vendor Support saying disregard the scam attempt.

Did anyone else get this message??? Others must have.

Most likely a Fed, or man on the inside, SR mod/employee/Fed wrote the message to scam more bitcoins before the sight was taken down! Maybe to gain info as well.

Another question. Did anyone who got the message go to the .onion link or put any coins in the bitcoin address in that message???

Please reply!
Title: Re: Warning message about SR seizure a week before actual seizure!
Post by: OzFreelancer on October 05, 2013, 05:40 am
Did you happen to keep the message? Could you post it here?

Title: Re: Warning message about SR seizure a week before actual seizure!
Post by: Cyclone on October 05, 2013, 05:51 am
No, I deleted the message. Looked like another scam attempt. I thought nothing of it till I remembered it yesterday.
Title: Re: Warning message about SR seizure a week before actual seizure!
Post by: gunhit on October 05, 2013, 07:00 am
The message WAS a scam. It was aimed at seizing/tracking bitcoins so as to identify vendors.

Title: Re: Warning message about SR seizure a week before actual seizure!
Post by: Sugarleaf on October 05, 2013, 07:10 am
I haven't seen a thread on this maybe someone else made one and I overlooked it.

About a week maybe two weeks before the seizure of SR I received a message on SR from a user named "VENDOR SUPPORT" all caps not "Vendor Support"(actual SR vendor support)

The message stated that Homeland Security, FBI, DEA are about to seize SR and take it down. The message said SR is being backed up at an alternative site and gave an .onion address. It also said to move all your bitcoins to the backup bitcoin address provided. I disregarded it as spam/scam at the time and promptly deleted the message. I believe two days late I got a message from Vendor Support saying disregard the scam attempt.

Did anyone else get this message??? Others must have.

Most likely a Fed, or man on the inside, SR mod/employee/Fed wrote the message to scam more bitcoins before the sight was taken down! Maybe to gain info as well.

Another question. Did anyone who got the message go to the .onion link or put any coins in the bitcoin address in that message???

Please reply!

I had a very similar message, from something along the lines of SILK ROAD SUPPORT. But when you looked at the forum profile, the username was "sllk road support", the lowercase "L" looked like an "I" when the name was displayed in all caps. I deleted it, too.

Peace,

Sugarleaf
Title: Re: Warning message about SR seizure a week before actual seizure!
Post by: USASupply on October 05, 2013, 07:47 am
I got it as well, coincidence maybe? sounds liek a by the book phishing attempt. but now, not so much...
Title: Re: Warning message about SR seizure a week before actual seizure!
Post by: brainfreeze on October 05, 2013, 08:52 am
I haven't seen a thread on this maybe someone else made one and I overlooked it.

About a week maybe two weeks before the seizure of SR I received a message on SR from a user named "VENDOR SUPPORT" all caps not "Vendor Support"(actual SR vendor support)

The message stated that Homeland Security, FBI, DEA are about to seize SR and take it down. The message said SR is being backed up at an alternative site and gave an .onion address. It also said to move all your bitcoins to the backup bitcoin address provided. I disregarded it as spam/scam at the time and promptly deleted the message. I believe two days late I got a message from Vendor Support saying disregard the scam attempt.

Did anyone else get this message??? Others must have.

Most likely a Fed, or man on the inside, SR mod/employee/Fed wrote the message to scam more bitcoins before the sight was taken down! Maybe to gain info as well.

Another question. Did anyone who got the message go to the .onion link or put any coins in the bitcoin address in that message???

Please reply!

I had a very similar message, from something along the lines of SILK ROAD SUPPORT. But when you looked at the forum profile, the username was "sllk road support", the lowercase "L" looked like an "I" when the name was displayed in all caps. I deleted it, too.

Peace,

sugar leaf they where amazing, im under a diffrent name but i just got introduced by mutual friend, my other name started with nasty. i hope your well and will contact you when i learn PGP.   
Title: Re: Warning message about SR seizure a week before actual seizure!
Post by: Sugarleaf on October 05, 2013, 09:17 am
sugar leaf they where amazing, im under a diffrent name but i just got introduced by mutual friend, my other name started with nasty. i hope your well and will contact you when i learn PGP.   

Thank you, I know who this is :) I will contactable soon hopefully, will make a post on my thread if the forums are still up. However, I will be requiring PGP to be used in all communication, no exceptions.

If you need help learning PGP, take a look at Pine's tutorials on the security forums, access while you still can! :) It looks daunting but is very easy once you've got the hang of it. When generating your key, ensure it is 4096 bit instead of the standard 2048.

Peace,

Sugarleaf
Title: Re: Warning message about SR seizure a week before actual seizure!
Post by: AnonymousAddict on October 05, 2013, 09:49 am
I got same MSG. I wrote back and told them to GO FUK THEMSELVES and try their scam attempt elsewhere.. lol

They just wanted your coins..maybe more
Title: Re: Warning message about SR seizure a week before actual seizure!
Post by: dirtybiscuitzz718 on October 05, 2013, 09:52 am
They where phishing.. for souls, mwahahaha
Title: Re: Warning message about SR seizure a week before actual seizure!
Post by: Dingo Ate My Drugs on October 05, 2013, 10:51 am
I didn't get that, but sounds like a scam.
As a vendor, I got a LOT of scam messages.
From "DPR" or "Silk Road Admins" or "The Silk Road", etc.
Scammers tried their best to exploit everything they could out of everyone.
Title: Re: Warning message about SR seizure a week before actual seizure!
Post by: goblin on October 05, 2013, 07:56 pm
Here it is: (notice the broken PGP signature)

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Hash: SHA1

We have a security emergency, we have had information from a verified and trusted source that a full scale Ddos joint operation from Interpol and american law enforcement is going to be launched against this site address.

We are one step ahead.

We are moving to backup address wsdg3fgquyol5oyv.onion see back up addresses in my forum post here http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=155554.0

Everything will be moved across within the next few hours, For your security please delete this and any messages you have in your inbox.
As things are moved across to the new site they will be erased from this one, please back up any information you think important. This way they can not harvest any info.

When we have moved over either Me, Inigo or Libertas will be in constant contact on the forum I will also use my twitter account if necessary.
This is not public knowledge yet and cannot be.

We urge you to immediately move all your bitcoins through your personal mixing address below for use on the new site as this is more safe and secure.

Your Mixer Address - 17K8Tn7AHi2BFQc2QeZJggD1UcWmUHNwzS

Please act as quick as you can as we cannot be responsible for delays


The revolution is ours, we fight for freedom.

Dread Pirate Roberts


This message has been signed to avoid any hesitation or confusion, my pgp key can be found here if verification is needed http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/silkroad/dpr_key


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Title: Re: Warning message about SR seizure a week before actual seizure!
Post by: CodoneCowboy on October 05, 2013, 08:14 pm
Eerily enough, a couple weeks ago I saw a comment on a post on the SR Reddit where someone was trying to warn people that the feds had compromised the SR server and that a shutdown was imminent. I thought it was just a troll, and his comment had been downvoted so many times that it was no longer visible without manually viewing it. The thing is, the rest of the guy's posts were normal comments, no signs of troll activity.