One of my client hosted on my server has pirated IPB running. Yesterday i got mail from him and he pasted all the mail content in my mail here is copy of that. Hello Admin I Am From Ipb Piracy Department Your Forum is Suspected To Be Using A Pirated Ipb Version The Consiquences Of Which Are Very High - You Could Be Jailed - You Could Be Fined 50000 Dollars - Your Hosting Account will be terminated Remove The Board From The Server Within 24 Hrs Or Else You Will Have To Face The Consiquences Thank you ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This user is registered with mail id: . What do u think guys is it fake or real ive had googled it but i did not find anything related to ipb's gmail. I guess this is some fake mail by some of his rivals.
From how the email is written and the email address the email is probably fake. However if it is an illegal copy you should do something about it IMO.
To me, this is a spam email Contac them at here. http://www.invisionpower.com/ip.dynamic/corporate/contact.html Paste the entire email header to them and they will do the rest.
No way that's their official email, the grammer and useage is all wrong. Looks like some Nigerian wrote that
Maybe some forum rival or something, i get loads of these crap daily! Some say, my hosting account is over and i need to pay urgently to the paypal to keep it live. .. some say somethn else ... But still, if it's pirated ...and if it's ur server ... you could get into trouble, you never know when biggies change their minds! So beware! Abhishek
If this is a fake kick then they will give my client real kick if they come to know he is running pirated. Anyways he has just started and when i asked him he told me that he will soon buy it when his site start earning.
hummm thats and good idea Abhi. I'll ask him. Thanks... but keep thinking what about this mail is it fake ???
Think you have to tell him not ask him. You, now knowing he is running unauthorized software, are placing yourself if jeopardy I suspect.