EDIT:
Crystal Ball contest is over. People who correctly answered #3 or LOL have been badged. I sure did get a lot of you to say LOL, Lol.
We get a lot of blackmail attempts here at Voat, perhaps one every two weeks. Nearly all are security related threats. This one though, well this one is a first. It is Voat's first DDoS threat and the first time we've seen lmgtfy.com used in the email body, so we have decided to share it for historical preservation.
If this "group" is serious (serious groups use lmgtfy.com) expect to see downtime. If they are mid-grade expect to get reacquainted with the having your bits checked by the one and only Voat Goat and/or some features turned off. If they really suck expect to see nothing.
I'm kind of excited. Let's take bets to make this interesting.
Anyone that correctly predicts tomorrow will get badged with a brand new shiny "I'm a Blackmail Wizard" badge.
ENTRY RULES: To make it easier on me, use the following text for your prediction and use only one of the phrases:
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Downtime (Voat burns)
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Voat Goat (Voat turns on DDoS protections and/or reduces functionality to deal with a DDoS, but stays alive for the most part)
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LOL (Nothing happens because their moms took away their iPads)
What happens tomorrow Voat?
Edit: And no editing your entries cheaters. I know what you are thinking!
DDoS Email Threat:
FROM: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, May 1, 2017 12:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Ransom request: DDOS ATTACK!
FORWARD THIS MAIL TO WHOEVER IS IMPORTANT IN YOUR COMPANY AND CAN MAKE DECISION!
We are xmr-squad. https://lmgtfy.com/q=xmr_squad
All your servers will be DDoS-ed starting tuesday (may 2) if you don’t pay protection – 3 Bitcoins @ 16qkhjMBqXCtZHF7wwLmBA4ShmKECHqpHB
If you don’t pay by tuesday, attack will start, price to stop will
increase to 20 BTC and will go up 5 BTC for every day of attack.
One bitcoin costs about 1.3k USD at the moment.
You can buy bitcoins easily here: https://www.coinify.com/
This is not a joke.
Our attacks are extremely powerful – sometimes over 600 Gigabits per second.
So, no cheap protection will help.
Prevent it all with just 3 BTC @ 16qkhjMBqXCtZHF7wwLmBA4ShmKECHqpHB
Do not reply, we will not read.
Pay and we will know its you. AND YOU WILL NEVER AGAIN HEAR FROM US!
Bitcoin is anonymous, nobody will ever know you cooperated.
Canary:
https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806
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CrudOMatic ago
@PuttItOut
Oh, too good. I speak 1337 |=@9907, so I'll translate:
Shit no one's ever heard of or cares about.
SO 1337 that I didn't know who to send it to directly.
Hi, my father bailed on the family when I was 8, and I was raised by my helicopter mother. I try to be edgy on the internet to compensate for not having a male role model in my life. I'm two shades away from being an impotent cuck.
Don't even know the names of the guys who run the site, just like I didn't know what e-mail address to send my "ransom" to. 1337 |-|@><0|2!!!!11!!1!1
Profile of me and my "friends" (imaginary, because mom won't let me out) - it's on a little known site called GOOGLE. Maybe you've heard of it?
I put -ed on the end of DDoS because my English sucks, and also to let you know I'm completely serious. I also included a bitcoin wallet address that probably isn't even anonymous (as I suggest using coinify later in the e-mail).
This is just to let you know that I'm super serious - just like how the bomb will start ticking faster if I don't get paid immediately. If I do have any tools, I'll attack you for a few hours until it starts fucking with my netflix, then I'll stop. Of course I'll attack you from home - this is the internet, and I'm totally anonymous. Distributed? What's that?
You can totally trust them, I used them to create the bitcoin wallet address I sent you a few lines ago.
You better take me seriously, my puberty's flaring up and I don't have an outlet for release. If only mom would let me join the junior high Fight Club.
"Our" power level is OVER 9000! "Our" gang has got more throughput than an OC-768 line, you BEST be afraid, faggot. Gibs me dat money. I also roleplay in the mirror as a gangbanger, and hold my pistol cocked to the side - because that's the most effective way of layin' niggas in da dirt, yo.
Cloudflare ain't cheap, but I'll pretend it is by suggesting that "our" pipes are fatter than both those of the USG and Wall St.
I think my wallet I generated at coinify is anonymous, even though I had to fill in all my mom's info.
EllenPaosEgo ago
Is it to late to vote for LOL?