Is it seriously this casual for people to find hackers?
 

I got this emailte other day, it's a nice compliment with a back handed twist.

Hello!
I'd liked to join your site but I've got a problem: my country banned in ccbill. May be it's possible to pay in any other way? I really don't want to pay some hackers or other bad guys for your content because I like what you're doing, I like you girls. And,damn, it's impossible to pay and get an access :((( sorry for my bad English, my first language is Russian.
I'll wait for you answer..




Thanks for the fan mail.....?

I'm running CCBill with Phantom Frog for security.

We got the perfect solution for you, we can have you bill Russians via SMS billing and since we are integrated into CCBill cascade, set up will be painless :thumbsup

Was that sort of a threat?

so they're saying "either find a way for me to pay to get into your website, or I will find someone to hack into your system"?! Tell him you don't take threats lightly, not even subtle ones, and to FUCK OFF! and oh yeah, sorry if my English is bad, hope you can understand? LOL!

You should take it as a huge compliment. Where he's at it's probably normal to not pay for this kind of shit online as pretty much everything gets hacked or carded. Don't be an idiot and flame this guy, make some effort instead and try to understand where he's coming from.

business 101 - find a way for the guy to pay

Just don't accept any money orders, lol.

he says he doesnt want to pay carders to steal the content, but he has no choice with CCbill fucking it up for everyone

Forward your reply to him and the FBI.

Russia has a paypal type of thing. Maybe it is time to connect to it.

I'd just be nice and give him a free 7 day membership.

i think he confused hacking and pirating....

Set this up and you might even see an increase in sales.

are you serious?
the guy was a bit too honest, but still you should find a way to get your service available to more people. This guy may have done you a lot of good if you setup sms billing for his country and it turns out that more people are willing to pay.

lol he wants your girls

I think he wanted to say that he's not willing to download your content from various pirate and illegal sharing sites where hackers and carders post it (which is mostly true, those who post stuff there mostly collect it through either hacked accounts or use stolen cc numbers to get access). Or that he doesnt want to buy memberships at one of those password sharing sites where they post new passes daily for paying members.

I do not think the meaning of his message was that he's going to finance hacking of your site directly.

Quite the honest guy actually. Give him a free pass.

give him a free pass for letting you know about billing problems, and solve them asap

Give him a free pass then see how fast all your content appears on a 'hackers or other bad guys' site as his payment for membership there.

Thank him for the info and look into sorting out some way of letting him pay legitimately, Russia is a big market if you are finding people willing to pay.

They dont care about the guy in Russia and the fact that he may destroy the site, servers and processing but they will run right over and check his 2257

Yeah the FBI will get right on threatening that Russian guy for you

*facepalm*