Contributor I

Beware free iPad messages

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I just received a message from a new account with no posts, Administrator_Jason, offering a free iPad.

The message contains a link that looks like it is from Sonos.com but it is to presentnow.com. This has all the red flags of a scam.

Just a warning to be careful about what you click on, even here.

Mark

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Pinned Reply By Jamie A

Hi All,

We’ve started banning these accounts and have taken steps to prevent more of this type from being created. While we’re looking into longer term solutions, we’ve currently enabled account registration approval by the moderation team on the forum.

Thank you for the reports on this and for your patience.

Edit:

I’ve merged a few threads into this one as they were made before we started banning the spam accounts.

Edit 2:

The accounts involved in sending out messages are all banned and, after making some adjustments on our end, you shouldn’t see any new messages regarding the spam link in this thread.

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bhamiltoncx

Lyricist I

I'm getting inbox spam from a user named "Administrator_Sawyer".

The spam link looks like sonos dot com slash prize, but it takes you to presentnow dot club slash sonos.

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limeybrant

Lyricist II

Same here, different username.

Airgetlam

Might be helpful to report the name to the moderators, so they can do something about these scam accounts.

Bruce

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limeybrant

Lyricist II

Might be helpful to report the name to the moderators, so they can do something about these scam accounts.

I did include an image but it didn’t post.

Username was Аdministrator_Rocco

Airgetlam

Great to know they’re using the ‘Administrator’ label. ;) Fortunately, Sonos employees rely on the forum software to label them as employees, rather than the name of the account. On the other hand, it might be easy to fool someone who is new to the forum.

Thanks for the screencap!

Bruce

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limeybrant

Lyricist II

The account was registered today also. Most forum software can disallow certain strings like “admin” from being part of a username, that would be a good start!

Airgetlam

Scammers are evil people.

Bruce

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VMolly

Lyricist II

I got it from

Аdministrator_Adam

Beware!

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rtucker

Lyricist I

Administrator Zane

buzz

Grand Maestro

I constantly receive “urgent” messages demanding that we reply “now” to pay invoices, renew domain names, and similar. Unfortunately, the account that is attacked cannot buy or renew anything. Links and email addresses given are obviously suspicious. None of my email clients will automatically follow any links. The Scammer will think that I never read the messsage. If they don’t give it up in a couple days, I’ll have my email server block them.

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