Upvoted a forum item4yScammers have channeled their fraudulent tactics to dark web services with impersonation difficult to detect. According to multiple reports and complaints, scammers have made the various dark web news and review platforms their new targets, impersonating them to request money from advertisers for no work done. This fraudulent technique has been around for some time as most websites have had their reputations soiled and scammers made thousands of Euros in their name. The recent reports explain why emails from untrusted sources with monetary requests or referral links must be verified before taking actions. Recently, Dark.fail, a dark web service provider posted on Twitter about having received an email supposedly from Onion.live. According to the Tweet and the attached screenshot, Onion.live requested them to make a payment of 0.17 BTC for being listed on their site. Onion.live, however, has no involvement in the email and can state emphatically that scammers impersonated them to get some bucks from Dark.fail. In the email, the impersonators forged an advertising contract containing next renewal, status online, payment amount, and even added a wallet address and made it looked like it was being sent from the official email of the site administrator. The email states that: “We Onion.live promoting a number of onion sites giving minutes to minutes live status and Trust score have given 100% trust score as per visitors opinion. We request you to pay and support us for this promotion”. This is difficult to suspect as impersonated email addresses need critical recheck to establish how different it is from the official email. Critical scrutiny revealed that scammers used “[email protected]” instead of the “[email protected]”. Dark.fail obviously knew it was a scam but did not suspect it had come from scammers. Instead, they believed it came from Onion.live and questioned the credibility of the Onion.live reviews and ratings. This explains how dangerous and advanced scammers can be. Scammers also used the name and email of onion.live to request money from another advertising company. This led to a dispute as the advertiser felt he was being scammed whiles Onion.live knew nothing about what was going on. It is important to note that the challenge websites face are not just from hackers with sophisticated tools using phishing links as a gateway to illegally access an account, but also, the constant impersonation of scammers using deception to steal and soil hard-earned reputations. Scammers did not only impersonate onion.live, but also used the name of darknetLLve.com to scam advertisers in a similar fashion. According to a post Tweeted by DarknetLive, a scammer hid behind [email protected] to deceive and stole thousands of Euros from an advertiser. They mentioned that the scammer used Namecheap, and protonmail to gain trust to stage the fraudulent activity. This is very scary as scammers are more likely to impersonate other services in the future to not only steal from advertisers but to also cause disputes between review platforms and advertisers. Onion.live is strictly focused on offering services within the framework of the law. The website strictly prohibits illegal advertisements or services. All displayed advertisements are scrutinized and deemed legal. In this case, any illicit activity or illegal calls for promotional funds after being listed is nothing but a scammer spoofing domain. Email Spoofing and How to Avoid It From the above report, it is clear that Email Spoofing is actively being used by scammers for their fraudulent gain. Email Spoofing is the forgery of an email header to impersonate someone or to make it look like it is being sent from the original sender. The whole idea of Email Spoofing is to get targets to respond to the solicitation. To avoid being a victim to email spoofing, keep antimalware software updated to the latest release. Also, think twice when clicking on any suspicious link in an email. Another preventive measure is to set spam filters to the strongest priority. In addition, do not enter any financial information into an insecure link. It is important to understand that Email Spoofing can go undetected if not suspected in the first place. Once suspected, the target can check the email source code to find the original IP address and trace it to the sender. Scammers have over the years evolved and come out with a more advanced technique to win the trust of targets once their old technique is exposed. It is, therefore, important to be careful with the kind of emails you open and the attachments you download.
Scammers have channeled their fraudulent tactics to dark web services with impersonation difficult to detect. According to multiple reports and complaints, scammers have made the various dark web news and review platforms their new targets, impersonating them to request money from advertisers for no work done. This fraudulent technique has been around for some time as most websites have had their reputations soiled and scammers made thousands of Euros in their name. The recent reports explain why emails from untrusted sources with monetary requests or referral links must be verified before taking actions. Recently, Dark.fail, a dark web service provider posted on Twitter about having received an email supposedly from Onion.live. According to the Tweet and the attached screenshot, Onion.live requested them to make a payment of 0.17 BTC for being listed on their site. Onion.live, however, has no involvement in the email and can state emphatically that scammers impersonated them to get some bucks from Dark.fail. In the email, the impersonators forged an advertising contract containing next renewal, status online, payment amount, and even added a wallet address and made it looked like it was being sent from the official email of the site administrator. The email states that: “We Onion.live promoting a number of onion sites giving minutes to minutes live status and Trust score have given 100% trust score as per visitors opinion. We request you to pay and support us for this promotion”. This is difficult to suspect as impersonated email addresses need critical recheck to establish how different it is from the official email. Critical scrutiny revealed that scammers used “[email protected]” instead of the “[email protected]”. Dark.fail obviously knew it was a scam but did not suspect it had come from scammers. Instead, they believed it came from Onion.live and questioned the credibility of the Onion.live reviews and ratings. This explains how dangerous and advanced scammers can be. Scammers also used the name and email of onion.live to request money from another advertising company. This led to a dispute as the advertiser felt he was being scammed whiles Onion.live knew nothing about what was going on. It is important to note that the challenge websites face are not just from hackers with sophisticated tools using phishing links as a gateway to illegally access an account, but also, the constant impersonation of scammers using deception to steal and soil hard-earned reputations. Scammers did not only impersonate onion.live, but also used the name of darknetLLve.com to scam advertisers in a similar fashion. According to a post Tweeted by DarknetLive, a scammer hid behind [email protected] to deceive and stole thousands of Euros from an advertiser. They mentioned that the scammer used Namecheap, and protonmail to gain trust to stage the fraudulent activity. This is very scary as scammers are more likely to impersonate other services in the future to not only steal from advertisers but to also cause disputes between review platforms and advertisers. Onion.live is strictly focused on offering services within the framework of the law. The website strictly prohibits illegal advertisements or services. All displayed advertisements are scrutinized and deemed legal. In this case, any illicit activity or illegal calls for promotional funds after being listed is nothing but a scammer spoofing domain. Email Spoofing and How to Avoid It From the above report, it is clear that Email Spoofing is actively being used by scammers for their fraudulent gain. Email Spoofing is the forgery of an email header to impersonate someone or to make it look like it is being sent from the original sender. The whole idea of Email Spoofing is to get targets to respond to the solicitation. To avoid being a victim to email spoofing, keep antimalware software updated to the latest release. Also, think twice when clicking on any suspicious link in an email. Another preventive measure is to set spam filters to the strongest priority. In addition, do not enter any financial information into an insecure link. It is important to understand that Email Spoofing can go undetected if not suspected in the first place. Once suspected, the target can check the email source code to find the original IP address and trace it to the sender. Scammers have over the years evolved and come out with a more advanced technique to win the trust of targets once their old technique is exposed. It is, therefore, important to be careful with the kind of emails you open and the attachments you download.
Upvoted a forum item5yHi everyone, Onion.Live site owner's RESTful API has been released. Verified site owners of a site indexed at our .onion search engine can now perform multiple types of API request, using our new Site Owners API including: GET all URLs of the site POST Create multiple new URLs POST Create single new URL DEL Delete multiple URLs DEL single URL Use case Update site listing URLs Monitor Site mirror URLs listed at Onion.Live for changes Site owners can rotate mirrors automatically in case of DDoS on their hidden service (16 mirrors max) Information Docs: API Documentation License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
Hi everyone, Onion.Live site owner's RESTful API has been released. Verified site owners of a site indexed at our .onion search engine can now perform multiple types of API request, using our new Site Owners API including: GET all URLs of the site POST Create multiple new URLs POST Create single new URL DEL Delete multiple URLs DEL single URL Use case Update site listing URLs Monitor Site mirror URLs listed at Onion.Live for changes Site owners can rotate mirrors automatically in case of DDoS on their hidden service (16 mirrors max) Information Docs: API Documentation License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
Upvoted a forum item5yUpdate: We've created a status page to monitor all aspects of our network and check our system status in the following URL: https://status.onion.live/ We're almost done, You should notice the difference in speed and reliability by now as downtimes are eliminated and mirrors are being checked much faster after we introduced the new GOAT architecture. Only minor tasks are remaining regarding this maintenance. Affecting only our onion mirror. We plan to continue our development roadmap as usual afterwards, so expect new exciting and awesome features soon as we have enough horsepower to run them. Regards, Onion.live DevOps/SysOps Team
Update: We've created a status page to monitor all aspects of our network and check our system status in the following URL: https://status.onion.live/ We're almost done, You should notice the difference in speed and reliability by now as downtimes are eliminated and mirrors are being checked much faster after we introduced the new GOAT architecture. Only minor tasks are remaining regarding this maintenance. Affecting only our onion mirror. We plan to continue our development roadmap as usual afterwards, so expect new exciting and awesome features soon as we have enough horsepower to run them. Regards, Onion.live DevOps/SysOps Team
Upvoted a forum item5yHello all. We're currently performing an infrastructure upgrade to a new larger cluster that will guarantee better performance and high availability. Expect outages ... We try not to interrupt the current setup but as we incrementally push code to our current production systems you might get a couple of 500 server errors before they are quickly resolved. We'll keep you updated once this migration is completed. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Hello all. We're currently performing an infrastructure upgrade to a new larger cluster that will guarantee better performance and high availability. Expect outages ... We try not to interrupt the current setup but as we incrementally push code to our current production systems you might get a couple of 500 server errors before they are quickly resolved. We'll keep you updated once this migration is completed. Sorry for the inconvenience.
