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| 16 Jul 2014 04:04 PM |
As of about a week, just about every day, I get a message from a random, new user that asks me a question about what I am doing or asking for advice about ROBLOX, seemingly innocent. Under that is "Free Robux at (Link)" (I do not want to share the link publicly, however it is the same link every time). Again, this happens about every other day, and it was everyday until yesterday. I looked up the link (I did not enter the URL) and found that others said it was a virus or some other malware. I thought it was a strange coincidence at the time, and didn't think much of it, so I ignored it: I thought it would be the last of it. It wasn't. I knew I was being targeted when the second message came, from a different person. I have since reported the users, but I continue to get the messages. I was wondering if there was anyone else with this issue, and if there was a way to stop it. I find that reporting every user is excessive, even knowing that it is right to do so. Does anyone else know anything about this problem? |
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| 16 Jul 2014 04:06 PM |
| Don't worry, without any evidence I'd guess it's some 14-17 year old doing it, they'll probably get bored of spending tons of time doing it eventually (unless they built a bot), if they don't even see the results of the virus (assuming it's a worm style virus and not a RAT) they'd probably lose the excitement over it. If you really want it to stop I'd guess the only way would be to restrict your messages, sorry. |
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| 16 Jul 2014 04:13 PM |
| I GET THAT TOO!!! I got 2 messages of something called "grip Download" and a group shout explained to ignore these. You aren't being targeted, I'm not. Everyone is the target... that means it IS a bot creating alts and sending PMs all over roblox. Gotta restrict my PMs now. |
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foofee410
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| 17 Jul 2014 12:52 AM |
| Make your message settings to no one. Then they can't send you pms. |
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M3RK3DOUT
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| 17 Jul 2014 02:52 AM |
| someone keeps parting me saying to download somethings, and cuz I'm thick I did, But its not optimised for mac so i think il be fine.......... |
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| 17 Jul 2014 10:41 PM |
Okay, so this isn't just me. I think I am going to not allow messages for now, as suggested. It is not unlikely that the bots (Bots are the most plausible cause) are users that were tricked into going to the site, whose accounts are now under the hackers control. Either that, or bots make new accounts to spread the messages. Also, there is a pattern in the attacks. The bots seem to target people with Limited items more often than not. So the person who started this is almost definitely an active member of Roblox. That is all I can come up with for now. Oh well, there is really nothing we can do about this, sadly, except for wait it out. |
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iiDusty
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| 17 Jul 2014 10:43 PM |
| A lot of people get this, I got those messages too, but just ignore for the best ;) |
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| 20 Jan 2015 01:17 AM |
I get these every day also. I kinda want to harness this power to help advertise my group. XD Its probably some kid who's laughing his butt off reading this thread now! |
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cmitc1
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| 20 Jan 2015 09:36 AM |
| the same thing is happening to me. the weird thing is that its exactly the same like its been copy and pasted over to the next |
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| 20 Jan 2015 10:21 AM |
| No 1 person is sending messages by themselves, they use a bot to do it. |
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| 20 Jan 2015 11:17 AM |
| If someone could pm me a link to whatever they're getting from these bots I could poke around on it. |
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CraftioLo
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| 20 Jan 2015 11:36 AM |
| Just v3rmillion ha4xers, doing their own business! |
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