A Warning about Commander Shockwaeve

Unicron · Post by **Unicron** » Sun Dec 09, 2001 9:29 pm

This is basically a warning that any posts after this one by the poster Commander Shockwaeve are not actually by Commander Shockwaeve.

You see, Commander Shockwaeve was scammed out of his password to the Archive. Someone impersonated Skywarp in an Email. The email was from Skywarp01@london.com. The Email is as follows:
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Disregard my last message. We know its one of the mods because the pic was posted in the "admin only" section. Me and Brendon has been talking. We think that either there's a flaw on the system or it is one of us. This is our solution to catch the culprit.

1. Try not to email any of the other mods, because I'm trying to talk to them one-on-one first, like what I'm doing to you.
2. You're password is stored but if you could reply to this message with your password. We will see if it match. We have reason to believe that the suspect might have been able to decrypt the passwords.
3. DO NOT MENTION anything about Carly in the message board. We know that the first person to mention him is the suspect.

We hope that this is not too much. As soon as this is dealt with, he will be fired from the mod position and a new one will be appointed. We will then do our best for this not to repeat in the future.

Your Friend,
Skywarp

P.S.
Here are the suspects:

Reflector
Starscreamsghost
Jim
Jetfire
Computron
Pun-3X
Galvatron 91
God Jinrai
Garand
Commander Shockwaeve
and Blitzwing

I'm 100% sure that it's not you because you were the most worried when I emailed that pic to all the mods. In the meantime, please follow up to this message ASAP.

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Appearantly this was part of a small chain of emails sent to Shockwaeve. And before anyone starts pointing out clues as to why this email wasn't from Skywarp, don't bother. Shockwaeve already knows about them.

The situation will be resolved once an Admin gets online.

Halfshell · Post by **Halfshell** » Sun Dec 09, 2001 9:32 pm

And what exactly am I required to do?

aaah, the lack of intelligence in that email makes me laff...

(oh, and don't. Okay. Anybody says anything, you won't see me for dust)

Unicron · Post by **Unicron** » Sun Dec 09, 2001 9:37 pm

Anything.

You're not required to do anything. Shockwaeve wanted me to warn people about the situation.

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Blaster_86 · Post by **Blaster_86** » Sun Dec 09, 2001 9:41 pm

Oh man I dun want my s/n to get jacked. This sucks or is only mod s/n's getting ripped. (s/n = screen name)

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Halfshell · Post by **Halfshell** » Sun Dec 09, 2001 9:43 pm

all sorted.

Oh, and B86 - get that outta your sig. I appreciate the sentiment, but I ain't coming back whilst that's there.

[This message has been edited by Brendocon (edited 12-09-2001).]

Unicron · Post by **Unicron** » Sun Dec 09, 2001 9:45 pm

Brendo, why did you become an admin again?

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"Guns don't kill people, the Government does" - Dale Gribble
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Blaster_86 · Post by **Blaster_86** » Sun Dec 09, 2001 10:07 pm

fixed my sig it's back to normal.

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Post by **Denyer** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 12:29 am

Should I mention now that I got a mail from that london.com account which was another "hilarious" re-working of that Devastator's knob image?

Addl got cc:d it, so he may have mentioned, or just deleted it like I did...

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StoneCold Skywarp · Post by **StoneCold Skywarp** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 12:37 am

Originally posted by Stuart Denyer:
Should I mention now that I got a mail from that london.com account which was another "hilarious" re-working of that Devastator's knob image?

Addl got cc:d it, so he may have mentioned, or just deleted it like I did...

yeah, I know the one, now I know that a few people have received it, oddly enough, me Claypool, Addl, and yourself.

who gives a monkey's anyway

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Starscreamsghost · Post by **Starscreamsghost** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 12:38 am

And the blitzkrieg begins...THIS is why I should be a mod in General too...

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Post by **Denyer** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 1:02 am

Originally posted by Skywarp:
who gives a monkey's anyway

Well, quite...

Jetfire · Post by **Jetfire** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 9:08 am

What happened exactly?

Is cs back or....?

EDIT: I read my emails and I understand the situation now.
Has Commander got his P/w back yet?

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Halfshell · Post by **Halfshell** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 6:33 pm

Originally posted by Commander Shockwaeve:
Well, I'm glad I'm the only one stupid enough to have fallen for it...

EDIT: Gah! A piece of the evil still remained...

[This message has been edited by Commander Shockwaeve (edited 12-09-2001).]

Posted two hours after I returned the account to its "rightful" owner.

Hmmmm.

Galvatron91 · Post by **Galvatron91** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 8:10 pm

WOW! I made a suspect list...my life so rocks at this point right now!

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moonbaseone · Post by **moonbaseone** » Thu Dec 13, 2001 3:23 pm

Does that email address still work?

Why don't you guys load it up with some "nice" mail...

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Sir Auros · Post by **Sir Auros** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:35 am

Haha! Blaster thought we didn't know what a sn was...silly old bear...silly old thread...

Blaster · Post by **Blaster** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:56 am

not again.

auros... leave these threads dead.

Tempest · Post by **Tempest** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 6:51 am

The history of TFA has been uncovered!

Post by **Denyer** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 8:42 am

No, it's always been in the back of the forum. Which doesn't actually contain all of the posts from way back when, because the UBB needed to be cleaned periodically. So, some of those threads didn't make it onto the vB we have now.

Anyway, it's time to put this one out of its misery...