Dear SolidTrust Pay Member,
This is a personal email from Marc and Stella, to you, our valued members. It has serious implications for a small percentage of you. It is, however, going out to our main membership to ensure it reaches all appropriate parties.
As many of you know, we have been harassed and attacked by individuals in Indonesia, Hungary and elsewhere. DDoS attackes and phishing emails leveled at us, lies, slander and accusations thrown around in forums. Yesterday we received a blackmail letter demanding $10,000 in EGold. (see partial copy below). We have NO intention whatsoever of giving in to this individual's demands. He has even used our personal names in phishing e-mail attempts from a fake gmail account supposedly from SolidTrust. We reported this to Gmail weeks ago, but received no response. He has had his gold currency accounts blocked, only to create new ones.
This individual is claiming to have accessed some accounts and acquired credit card information (numbers only...no C V V codes, as those are not stored) from some members. His threat is that if we do not pay the ransom, he will make that information available on various underground forums.
We are on a new, powerful server configuration, have strong anti-DDoS protection, 24/7 security monitoring and back office encryption measures. He is angry because he can't even get to the front door.
To stop him, here's how you can help us help you.
1) change your login password. This is always a good practice, so why not do it now.
2) if you have listed a credit card in your profile with a valid expiry date, contact your credit card company and ask them to monitor all future activity. You can even change your number if you wish. We have NOT heard of ANY issues....but it is better to be fore-warned and fore-armed! If the card you have listed shows an expired expiry date, you do not need to do anything, of course.
3) monitor your own account and immediately report any suspicious activity. Rest assured we are watching every transaction as well. Check any suspicious emails! We do NOT use gmail, hotmail or any other free account. SolidTrust emails will always originate from our domains or xplornet.com (our ISP).
We will be contacting VISA and MasterCard. We are required to report such activity.
We live in a criminal and unfortunate world. Those that work hard for the benefit of others often become the victims of attack. We fully expect this individual to lash at us again. We expect some members to be upset and angry. Do not be surprised to receive more phishing emails, or even emails containing personal information. Ignore them. All he can do is throw what little information he has around.
We will NOT give in to terrorism and acts of blackmail! SolidTrust Pay is more than a processor. It is a philosophy centred on caring customer support, put into practice every day. Many of you have shown strong support for us over the past while and we appreciate the words of encouragement sent our way.
Here is a section from the ransom e-mail. We ask that you read it and then ask yourselves...how would you respond? If he wants to post card numbers....he cannot be stopped. Even VISA itself was hacked in the past and millions of numbers stolen. If we were to pay his ransom, he would only come back for more. But if card numbers are monitored, companies made aware, and passwords changed, the information quickly becomes old and useless.
as always,
Marc and Stella Hiemstra and all the staff at SolidTrust Pay Inc.
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"I believe Solidtrustpay.com user will make a lot of complain about your company.
So, the choice is your, pay me 10 K in e-gold, or let credit card member posted to internet.
Have nice day.
If you agree contact me by reply this e-mail . and I 'll send you my e-gold information.
I give you 24 hours from now...to reply this email.!!!"
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