Hello Everyone,
I "just" received (actually on Apr. 13, but I did not log in to my mail since then, so I just read) a notification from "Keybase" that "Lawson English" invited me to a "libresilicon" team. Did anyone got similar mail, or can anyone confirm if it is not a scam?
BTW: @David: I wasn't in Jitsi (sorry for that), can you please wrap up shortly what the heck happened?
Regards, Ferenc
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:46 AM Éger Ferenc eegerferenc@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I "just" received (actually on Apr. 13, but I did not log in to my mail since then, so I just read) a notification from "Keybase" that "Lawson English" invited me to a "libresilicon" team. Did anyone got similar mail, or can anyone confirm if it is not a scam?
That's a keybase.io "libresilicon" team created and owned by Merik Voswinkel, so whether or not this is a scam depends on Merik. At the moment, I'm in that team and was even given enough rights to cancel your team invitation.
BTW: @David: I wasn't in Jitsi (sorry for that), can you please wrap up shortly what the heck happened?
I'll defer my decision how active I want to participate in this keybase team until I have a better idea what the heck is happening.
Regards, Ferenc
Confused, tatzelbrumm
Libresilicon-developers mailing list Libresilicon-developers@list.libresilicon.com https://list.libresilicon.com/mailman/listinfo/libresilicon-developers
On 4/22/20 1:02 AM, Christoph Maier wrote:
That's a keybase.io "libresilicon" team created and owned by Merik Voswinkel, so whether or not this is a scam depends on Merik. At the moment, I'm in that team and was even given enough rights to cancel your team invitation.
What the heck is going on here once again?
"Divide et impera" ???
I do not like Meriks kind to hurry up all stuff. Under false pressure the decisions are always went wrong.
Please let us look at our target - bringing LibreSilicon up and running in a way we do not have to be embarrassed about..
Hagen.
Hello It *is* a scam. Keybase.io is NOT infrastructure of Merik. As a matter of fact, I haven't seen any infrastructure actually ran by Merik, but in fact only publicly available services like jit.si and keybase.io Lawson seems to be Merik' accomplice. He di put up a show on jit.si where he acted, as if he'd be "tuning" the system, which is so hilarious, that not even he was able to keep a straight face the whole time. Merik now tries to convince me, that he could bring a fiber line online in my flat, of which I know doesn't exist, because I've checked with the local fiber providers and this area here doesn't have coverage yet. Nevertheless Merik tries to get me to pay him 38 Euros upfront, claiming "his partner company" would be ready to bring it online today. This person is a conman, grifter and scammer, so is Lawson. I've banned both of them from the mailing list and blocked Merik on Skype and I would suggest you folks to do the same. They seem to be after some of the money from the NLNet grants. I already told Michiel to warn the other beneficiaries of the NLNet grant to avoid interacting with Meric Voswinkel and Lawson English.
-lev
On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 10:02:48 AM WEST Hagen SANKOWSKI wrote:
On 4/22/20 1:02 AM, Christoph Maier wrote:
That's a keybase.io "libresilicon" team created and owned by Merik Voswinkel, so whether or not this is a scam depends on Merik. At the moment, I'm in that team and was even given enough rights to cancel your team invitation.
What the heck is going on here once again?
"Divide et impera" ???
I do not like Meriks kind to hurry up all stuff. Under false pressure the decisions are always went wrong.
Please let us look at our target - bringing LibreSilicon up and running in a way we do not have to be embarrassed about..
Hagen. _______________________________________________ Libresilicon-developers mailing list Libresilicon-developers@list.libresilicon.com https://list.libresilicon.com/mailman/listinfo/libresilicon-developers
Hello The only interaction we should have with Meriks "LibreSilicon" channels on keybase.io and jit.si is to report it as abuse to the responsible admins, because he's abusing our project name for his scamming scheme. I'll probably do that right away with keybase.
-lev
On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 12:02:05 AM WEST Christoph Maier wrote:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:46 AM Éger Ferenc eegerferenc@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I "just" received (actually on Apr. 13, but I did not log in to my mail since then, so I just read) a notification from "Keybase" that "Lawson English" invited me to a "libresilicon" team. Did anyone got similar mail, or can anyone confirm if it is not a scam?
That's a keybase.io "libresilicon" team created and owned by Merik Voswinkel, so whether or not this is a scam depends on Merik. At the moment, I'm in that team and was even given enough rights to cancel your team invitation.
BTW: @David: I wasn't in Jitsi (sorry for that), can you please wrap up shortly what the heck happened?
I'll defer my decision how active I want to participate in this keybase team until I have a better idea what the heck is happening.
Regards, Ferenc
Confused, tatzelbrumm
Libresilicon-developers mailing list Libresilicon-developers@list.libresilicon.com https://list.libresilicon.com/mailman/listinfo/libresilicon-developers
Libresilicon-developers mailing list Libresilicon-developers@list.libresilicon.com https://list.libresilicon.com/mailman/listinfo/libresilicon-developers
Do thevscamers receive email and read it? If so you might send them links to malware infested sites. Having qubes-os I dont care for malware, as if it gets exploited, it is only a vm based on a template.
So this would be a way to deal with the problem, just refer them to their friends.
Cheers
Ludwig.
BTW how is youe corona panic level?
On April 22, 2020 5:30:28 PM GMT+02:00, "David Lanzendörfer" leviathan@libresilicon.com wrote:
Hello The only interaction we should have with Meriks "LibreSilicon" channels on keybase.io and jit.si is to report it as abuse to the responsible admins, because he's abusing our project name for his scamming scheme. I'll probably do that right away with keybase.
-lev
On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 12:02:05 AM WEST Christoph Maier wrote:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:46 AM Éger Ferenc eegerferenc@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I "just" received (actually on Apr. 13, but I did not log in to my
since then, so I just read) a notification from "Keybase" that
"Lawson
English" invited me to a "libresilicon" team. Did anyone got
similar
mail, or can anyone confirm if it is not a scam?
That's a keybase.io "libresilicon" team created and owned by Merik Voswinkel, so whether or not this is a scam depends on Merik. At the moment, I'm in that team and was even given enough rights to cancel your team invitation.
BTW: @David: I wasn't in Jitsi (sorry for that), can you please
wrap up
shortly what the heck happened?
I'll defer my decision how active I want to participate in this keybase team until I have a better idea what the heck is happening.
Regards, Ferenc
Confused, tatzelbrumm
Libresilicon-developers mailing list Libresilicon-developers@list.libresilicon.com
https://list.libresilicon.com/mailman/listinfo/libresilicon-developers
Libresilicon-developers mailing list Libresilicon-developers@list.libresilicon.com
https://list.libresilicon.com/mailman/listinfo/libresilicon-developers
Hi Ludwig
It's more serious than that, LibreSilicon is right now under a social engineering attack in the Kevin Mitnick style, and I'm afraid that some folks might not be enough resilient against such psychological manipulation.
It's not about malware, it's strategic. There's a guy who wants to tap into the NLNet funds, some of our team members have received.
For this purpose, he's trying to deface our project and lure our team members into groups, like the "libresilicon" group on keybase, which he has created and holds the administration rights, which is totally NOT OK, because he's not an active member of the team, nor did we ever give him the job to create such a group with this name.
I also found out, that he's trying to convince people, that "I wouldn't be suitable for the leading role at LibreSilicon", which shows me that he's scared of me, because I'm a sociopath which means that conning doesn't work with me, and also, that he doesn't understand how our project is working.
Anyway. After he tried to sell me that he could bring online a fiber line, which doesn't exist (which was a trap I had set for him), and asked for 38 Euros upfront, I blocked him on Skype and banned him from the mailing list, as well as his buddy Lawson English.
BTW: Also avoid a guy with the name Lawson English.
Cheers -lev
On Thursday, April 23, 2020 7:17:55 AM WEST Ludwig Jaffe wrote:
Do thevscamers receive email and read it? If so you might send them links to malware infested sites. Having qubes-os I dont care for malware, as if it gets exploited, it is only a vm based on a template.
So this would be a way to deal with the problem, just refer them to their friends.
Cheers
Ludwig.
BTW how is youe corona panic level?
On April 22, 2020 5:30:28 PM GMT+02:00, "David Lanzendörfer"
leviathan@libresilicon.com wrote:
Hello The only interaction we should have with Meriks "LibreSilicon" channels on keybase.io and jit.si is to report it as abuse to the responsible admins, because he's abusing our project name for his scamming scheme. I'll probably do that right away with keybase.
-lev
On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 12:02:05 AM WEST Christoph Maier wrote:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:46 AM Éger Ferenc eegerferenc@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I "just" received (actually on Apr. 13, but I did not log in to my
since then, so I just read) a notification from "Keybase" that
"Lawson
English" invited me to a "libresilicon" team. Did anyone got
similar
mail, or can anyone confirm if it is not a scam?
That's a keybase.io "libresilicon" team created and owned by Merik Voswinkel, so whether or not this is a scam depends on Merik. At the moment, I'm in that team and was even given enough rights to cancel your team invitation.
BTW: @David: I wasn't in Jitsi (sorry for that), can you please
wrap up
shortly what the heck happened?
I'll defer my decision how active I want to participate in this keybase team until I have a better idea what the heck is happening.
Regards, Ferenc
Confused, tatzelbrumm
Libresilicon-developers mailing list Libresilicon-developers@list.libresilicon.com
https://list.libresilicon.com/mailman/listinfo/libresilicon-developers
Libresilicon-developers mailing list Libresilicon-developers@list.libresilicon.com
https://list.libresilicon.com/mailman/listinfo/libresilicon-developers
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:32 AM David Lanzendörfer leviathan@libresilicon.com wrote:
Hi Ludwig
It's more serious than that, LibreSilicon is right now under a social engineering attack in the Kevin Mitnick style,
he's just tried to offer me a seat on the board of directors of the LibreSilicon Foundation.
l.
Hi Luke
The foundation doesn't exist. Otherwise it would be possible to find it online, when looking for foundations in the Netherlands. I have to incorporate the foundation first here in Portugal (will cost me 375 Euros) which is only possible, when the offices open up again. There needs to be at least two people signing the foundation contract... I think, I'll ask Hernani, when he comes visiting me.
I already told Michiel to warn all the beneficiaries from the NLNet grant, that Merik would be targeting everyone, who receives money from NLNet. I suggest to ignore any attempts by Merik to contact you, and you should everyone you know, who got a NLNet grant to avoid Merik and Lawson.
Cheers -lev
leviathan@libresilicon.com wrote:
Hi Ludwig
It's more serious than that, LibreSilicon is right now under a social engineering attack in the Kevin Mitnick style,
he's just tried to offer me a seat on the board of directors of the LibreSilicon Foundation.
l.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 6:12 PM David Lanzendörfer leviathan@libresilicon.com wrote:
I already told Michiel to warn all the beneficiaries from the NLNet grant, that Merik would be targeting everyone, who receives money from NLNet. I suggest to ignore any attempts by Merik to contact you, and you should everyone you know, who got a NLNet grant to avoid Merik and Lawson.
http://lists.libre-riscv.org/pipermail/libre-riscv-dev/2020-April/006120.htm...
l.
Hi Luke Very well done!
Cheers -lev
On Thursday, April 23, 2020 6:17:49 PM WEST Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 6:12 PM David Lanzendörfer
leviathan@libresilicon.com wrote:
I already told Michiel to warn all the beneficiaries from the NLNet grant, that Merik would be targeting everyone, who receives money from NLNet. I suggest to ignore any attempts by Merik to contact you, and you should everyone you know, who got a NLNet grant to avoid Merik and Lawson.
http://lists.libre-riscv.org/pipermail/libre-riscv-dev/2020-April/006120.htm l
l. _______________________________________________ Libresilicon-developers mailing list Libresilicon-developers@list.libresilicon.com https://list.libresilicon.com/mailman/listinfo/libresilicon-developers
Hi Ferenc
Lawson and Merik are two scammers, who work together.
Do not join this team, or better, report Lawson and Merik to keybase.io for abusing our project name.
As I've seen, they also have a reporting function.
-lev
On Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:45:34 PM WEST Éger Ferenc wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I "just" received (actually on Apr. 13, but I did not log in to my mail since then, so I just read) a notification from "Keybase" that "Lawson English" invited me to a "libresilicon" team. Did anyone got similar mail, or can anyone confirm if it is not a scam?
BTW: @David: I wasn't in Jitsi (sorry for that), can you please wrap up shortly what the heck happened?
Regards, Ferenc
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