| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | brickerking  | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2024 02:33 | | Subject: | Re: BEWARE! HACK TRIALS!! | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, UTLF writes:
| | They should just hire a bunch of Italians to deal with the spaghetti code
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Or at least some Boston Pizza servers!
After all, pizza is the solution to everything, right? Maybe add a little mustard
if that will help - dijon ketchups too. 
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| Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2024 02:27 | | Subject: | Re: Is this a legit email? | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Help, adam.r writes:
| | I have received an email asking me to sign up to be a BrickLink Research Member.
Whilst I have no problem with being BrickLink's guinea pig however given
the recent warnings about phishing emails targeting BrickLink users, I figured
that it would be best to check if this is a legitimate email before signing up.
The Sign up! link goes to an Office 365 form that asks questions including Name,
Email address and BrickLink username.
Could someone from BrickLink please advise if BrickLink has indeed been sending
out such emails, or is someone else up to no good?
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This is a legitimate email from our BrickLink team. Please sign up if you are
interested.
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Thanks!
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| Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2024 23:24 | | Subject: | Re: BEWARE! HACK TRIALS!! | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | In General, UTLF writes:
| | | | Those supporting the efforts of the Bricklink Team are not shills nor are we accepting of bot spam.
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There are a few people that have blown the bot spam off as nothing and tell us
to ignore it, as if it's acceptable that a marketplace owned by a billion-dollar
company can have advertisements for CBD gummies & tons of other crap spammed
daily
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Heres a simple answer, you can't post a link if you have no feedback.
No feedback, no links. People asking for help don't need to post links to
get help.
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Can't, can't, can't. Two words that means no hard work will ever
be done: spaghetti code
(and all the IT guys now nod their heads and say, yup, yup yup)
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| Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2024 12:37 | | Subject: | Re: BEWARE! HACK TRIALS!! | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, DanialR writes:
| | If not done properly can make the site
less secure than it is today.
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I vote they do it properly. In my experience, corporate IT guys create their
own limitations because they speak tech and their bosses don't. Just get
'er done!
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| Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2024 12:30 | | Subject: | Re: Is this a legit email? | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | I think this e-mail is legit but…
In Help, wildchicken13 writes:
| | […]
Mine's from blservice@bricklink.com, so I'm pretty sure it can
be trusted unless BrickLink's email servers have been hacked.
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Sorry to say but that can be forged. Scammers generally don’t bother to (especially
as they don’t want you to answer the e-mail and make the official site aware
of their shenanigans).
The DKIM-Signature is more secure but it needs to be verified: you can’t do it
‘manually.’ That depends on your mail provider.
Mails that don’t pass the verification don’t make it to your mailbox.
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You can also hover your cursor (don't click) over the link/button to see
the exact URL where it leads.
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Well, that doesn’t tell much more as BL is using mailchimp and trackers and whatnot.
If you hover over the link/button, you see something like
(https://)bricklink.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=(digits and letters)&id=(ditto)&e=(ditto)
Rather cryptic.
Now, if you look at the text-only version of the e-mail, the link is (https://)forms.office.com/e/(ID)
So you at least know you’re being redirected to an MSOffice form… but that doesn’t
tell you anything more on who created it and that doesn’t prevent you from entering
the name of your luggage or the code for your first pet.
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Can anyone actually confirm for the OP if this email is legit?
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