Quote from: RHavar on September 13, 2016, 01:23:03 AM

Quote from: pandalion98 on September 11, 2016, 03:40:10 PM

Do you think this is connected to a forum breach?

A few days ago, someone tried to use the data from the forum breach to try extract money from me. The guy was particularly unintelligent and made some pretty cringe-worthy mistakes, which probably means the data from the forum breach has just reached a wide circulation. (I'm guessing)

Here's the explanation behind the cringiness of it (it's for emails, but this is also applicable)

http://security.stackexchange.com/q/96121/70515

tl;dr Only the gullible reads the message. They're the kind of people that the scammers would try to exploit. This effectively creates a sort of low-pass filter.