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Artfire Hack/Phishing Scam
« on: July 17, 2017, 09:29:58 AM »

For all of those folks with an Artfire Account..
It appears Artfire has either been hacked or one very intelligent phisher has gotten into their system.
I received a supposed "customer contact" this morning. Here is the contents of the message. It screams phishing scam or a hack attempt..

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"Error in ordering
"Hello dear seller about week ago,I bought your stuff, but I still do not get this position in my account, although i have this transaction in my PayPal account.
I wrote message artfire client support, they recommend me to contact you attached a screenshots of my PayPaland artfire accounts.
Here are screenshots in zip-archive:
https://artfire-support.com/XXXXXXXXX
Please help me understand about the situation." — pertugireent1983"

Why do I know this is bogus?
No one has ordered anything from my store in over a year!
Also any attempts to contact actual Artfire Support are hindered by the fact their support system seems to be unable to connect. The other dead giveaway this is a scam is that the written English is so bad, it could only have been done by someone with English as a second language or using poor translation software. Also the URL in this message is wrong for Artfire and I have blacked out with X's part of the address so no one tries to click on it accidentally.
So if you get a similar message, DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY!

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Re: Artfire Hack/Phishing Scam
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2017, 11:31:41 AM »

That English I have been seeing you using has been to me understand very much.....  :LOLOL:
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Re: Artfire Hack/Phishing Scam
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2017, 11:42:38 AM »

That English I have been seeing you using has been to me understand very much.....  :LOLOL:

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Re: Artfire Hack/Phishing Scam
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2017, 12:11:37 PM »

hahahahaha  the joys of phishing or is that fishing....
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Re: Artfire Hack/Phishing Scam
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2017, 04:30:29 PM »

 :LOLOL: @ irockhound!
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Re: Artfire Hack/Phishing Scam
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2017, 05:32:56 PM »

Position your middle finger in the upward solo position, take a photo of it and send it back in a reply, he can put that in his acct lol
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