It was obviously a competitor right? I got an email from their "competition" stating terb had been aquired by them, Fred Zed had died and that I needed to make an account and talk to one of there mods to get access to terb again. In my experience with them they are rude and manipulative and their only interest is to shake me down for money. If it was a good investment I would do it. I would go with Terb first and then maybe consider them as a secondary place to advertise, but it's a joke. I mean, considering the events that happened, it's painfully obvious what they did. Is there any way to prevent this in the future? Can you press charges?
Did anyone else get suspicious emails before the Terb hack?
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They host their websites in .cc domains so North American laws do not apply to them
I am very doubtful that it would even be pursued by local courts
The last time I communicated with Fred about stuff like this, he suggested that I contact the host server of the website.
Servers have codes of conduct/terms of service that their customers must follow, just like individual websites do, and you can report websites for violating those terms.
Here's how to report that website to their host server.
Are you tired of being used and abused by the administrators, moderators & members on *****?
Do you want to report what ***** and/or his members have done to you, or to someone else?
If you have screenshots or Word files containing evidence of offensive content/activity on *****, you can report it by sending an email to www.worldstream.nl, their host server located in the Netherlands.
***** has already been reported, and WorldStream has investigated and contacted him about the offensive content. The more people that report him, the more likely they will take action.
This is the email address to send your report:
abuse@worldstream.nl
This is an example of the type of email a lawyer would send, and similar to the email that WorldStream already responded to.
You can edit it to suit your situation.
To:
WorldStream Internet Solutions
Attention:
Rick Vollebregt
Abuse Department - WorldStream B.V
I am writing in regards to offensive/illegal content on a website that is hosted by your company.
The website is ***** , owned and Administrated by a man known as ‘*****’.
After researching your Terms of Service, I believe this is the clause that applies to the content I’m reporting:
5. Without prejudice to the specification in Article 4.4, WorldStream B.V. is entitled to terminate the agreement with immediate effect and without judicial intervention if:
- The client makes improper use of the Internet
- The client disseminates information that conflicts with national or international laws and regulations
- The client disseminates information that conflicts with generally accepted standards and values
- The client disseminates information that is discriminatory with regard to appearance, race, religion, gender, culture, or ethnicity, or that can be deemed offensive in any other way.
https://www.worldstream.nl/WorldStream_TOS.pdf
I have included evidence of recent offensive content posted in their public discussion forum/chat box. Some of the content has already been deleted, but screenshots/copies are included to demonstrate a repeated pattern of unacceptable behaviour by the owner and his members.
I have evidence suggesting/proving that ***** administrators, moderators and members have engaged in the following on their public forum:
I respectfully request that you investigate my complaint.
I request that this website be taken offline as it is clearly in violation of your Terms of Service.
I request that he be reported to the proper authorities if you think there’s enough evidence to warrant having serious crimes investigated.
I have been personally victimized by the owner of this website and am contemplating legal action.
Sincerely,
(you can use a fake name)
NOTE: Copy and paste your evidence into the body of your email, or use a file transfer service to send it, by including the link to the uploaded files in your email.
WorldStream can't accept email attachments, so they recommend this easy-to-use file transfer service:
https://www.wetransfer.com/howitworks?trk=panel
If you wish to take legal action against *****, give WorldStream's contact info to your lawyer:
There’s a contact form on this webpage:
https://www.worldstream.nl/contact.php
If you want to send them a letter by post, or call them:
WorldStream Internet Solutions
P.O. Box 223
2670 AE NAALDWIJK
The Netherlands
Datacenter / Office
Industriestraat 24
2671 CT NAALDWIJK
The Netherlands
Call: +31 (0) 174 - 712 117 (mo-fr 10.00 - 17.00 CEST)
Abuse: abuse@worldstream.nl
Their Terms of Service: https://www.worldstream.nl/WorldStream_TOS.pdf
This is the clause that applies to the content you're reporting:
5. Without prejudice to the specification in Article 4.4, WorldStream B.V. is entitled to terminate the agreement with immediate effect and without judicial intervention if:
- The client makes improper use of the Internet
- The client disseminates information that conflicts with national or international laws and regulations
- The client disseminates information that conflicts with generally accepted standards and values
- The client disseminates information that is discriminatory with regard to appearance, race, religion, gender, culture, or ethnicity, or that can be deemed offensive in any other way.
*****
This means if you can provide sufficient evidence to prove that an online crime has been committed, they will require him to delete the content, or risk having his website taken offline. If he doesn’t comply, they can immediately remove the website without requiring a court order, cease and desist letter, or the involvement of Law Enforcement.
Spread the word and ask others to report the content. The more reports the Host Server receives, the more likely they are to take you seriously and act quickly.
Please share this information with anyone you think might be interested.
Servers have codes of conduct/terms of service that their customers must follow, just like individual websites do, and you can report websites for violating those terms.
Here's how to report that website to their host server.
Are you tired of being used and abused by the administrators, moderators & members on *****?
Do you want to report what ***** and/or his members have done to you, or to someone else?
If you have screenshots or Word files containing evidence of offensive content/activity on *****, you can report it by sending an email to www.worldstream.nl, their host server located in the Netherlands.
***** has already been reported, and WorldStream has investigated and contacted him about the offensive content. The more people that report him, the more likely they will take action.
This is the email address to send your report:
abuse@worldstream.nl
This is an example of the type of email a lawyer would send, and similar to the email that WorldStream already responded to.
You can edit it to suit your situation.
To:
WorldStream Internet Solutions
Attention:
Rick Vollebregt
Abuse Department - WorldStream B.V
I am writing in regards to offensive/illegal content on a website that is hosted by your company.
The website is ***** , owned and Administrated by a man known as ‘*****’.
After researching your Terms of Service, I believe this is the clause that applies to the content I’m reporting:
5. Without prejudice to the specification in Article 4.4, WorldStream B.V. is entitled to terminate the agreement with immediate effect and without judicial intervention if:
- The client makes improper use of the Internet
- The client disseminates information that conflicts with national or international laws and regulations
- The client disseminates information that conflicts with generally accepted standards and values
- The client disseminates information that is discriminatory with regard to appearance, race, religion, gender, culture, or ethnicity, or that can be deemed offensive in any other way.
https://www.worldstream.nl/WorldStream_TOS.pdf
I have included evidence of recent offensive content posted in their public discussion forum/chat box. Some of the content has already been deleted, but screenshots/copies are included to demonstrate a repeated pattern of unacceptable behaviour by the owner and his members.
I have evidence suggesting/proving that ***** administrators, moderators and members have engaged in the following on their public forum:
- Uttering threats, threats of bodily harm, and death threats
- Mocking the abduction of a toddler and the amber alert issued by the RCMP
- Encouraging and counseling someone to kill themselves
- Making accusations of members luring, raping, pimping and trafficking young girls
- Setting up fake appointments, making fake hotel reservations, placing fake food orders, etc. to intentionally cause personal/business, financial/legal difficulties for their members
- Threatening to post confidential member info on thedirty.com if suspected of multiple handles
- Outing/posting personal confidential information of their members including real names, email and IP addresses
- Posting members private messages, confidential emails and reported posts publicly
- Cyberbullying and harassment
- Making malicious defamatory statements about members
- Hacking into member accounts to access private messages and impersonate them when posting
- Extorting and threatening to ‘out’ member’s personal information and deliberately harm their personal or business reputation, if they don’t pay money and agree to their demands
- Intentionally and frequently violating their own site rules, with malicious intent towards their members
I respectfully request that you investigate my complaint.
I request that this website be taken offline as it is clearly in violation of your Terms of Service.
I request that he be reported to the proper authorities if you think there’s enough evidence to warrant having serious crimes investigated.
I have been personally victimized by the owner of this website and am contemplating legal action.
Sincerely,
(you can use a fake name)
NOTE: Copy and paste your evidence into the body of your email, or use a file transfer service to send it, by including the link to the uploaded files in your email.
WorldStream can't accept email attachments, so they recommend this easy-to-use file transfer service:
https://www.wetransfer.com/howitworks?trk=panel
If you wish to take legal action against *****, give WorldStream's contact info to your lawyer:
There’s a contact form on this webpage:
https://www.worldstream.nl/contact.php
If you want to send them a letter by post, or call them:
WorldStream Internet Solutions
P.O. Box 223
2670 AE NAALDWIJK
The Netherlands
Datacenter / Office
Industriestraat 24
2671 CT NAALDWIJK
The Netherlands
Call: +31 (0) 174 - 712 117 (mo-fr 10.00 - 17.00 CEST)
Abuse: abuse@worldstream.nl
Their Terms of Service: https://www.worldstream.nl/WorldStream_TOS.pdf
This is the clause that applies to the content you're reporting:
5. Without prejudice to the specification in Article 4.4, WorldStream B.V. is entitled to terminate the agreement with immediate effect and without judicial intervention if:
- The client makes improper use of the Internet
- The client disseminates information that conflicts with national or international laws and regulations
- The client disseminates information that conflicts with generally accepted standards and values
- The client disseminates information that is discriminatory with regard to appearance, race, religion, gender, culture, or ethnicity, or that can be deemed offensive in any other way.
*****
This means if you can provide sufficient evidence to prove that an online crime has been committed, they will require him to delete the content, or risk having his website taken offline. If he doesn’t comply, they can immediately remove the website without requiring a court order, cease and desist letter, or the involvement of Law Enforcement.
Spread the word and ask others to report the content. The more reports the Host Server receives, the more likely they are to take you seriously and act quickly.
Please share this information with anyone you think might be interested.
Rather than clutter up this thread, I posted a new one in the PSA forum with lots more info.
https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?590812-How-to-Report-a-Website-to-their-Host-Server
https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?590812-How-to-Report-a-Website-to-their-Host-Server
It was yet more nonsense from the morally bankrupt trust fund baby who runs a competing, and I use that term loosely, board.
He's been egging on a certain nuisance who's made life difficult for people in the adult industry over the last few years.
He's been egging on a certain nuisance who's made life difficult for people in the adult industry over the last few years.
The emails were one thing, the other being many very old threads being resurrected before the shut down, by a few months. It would seem that whomever it was at the heart of this, was probing long beforehand, as many an old thread was brought back to life. It would seem that the hacker(s) had already found a way in and if it was the other board, well known by many, and the fact that a number of our ranks belonged to, using the same handles, emails and possibly passwords, they waited until they had the magic number which they knew could make TERB crumble before they struck.
The email was precursor to the attack. Do TERB a favour and change your account settings and email addresses for the boards you belong to.
If you see any old thread resurrected, hit the button at the bottom and report it. This is suspicious behaviour too.
The email was precursor to the attack. Do TERB a favour and change your account settings and email addresses for the boards you belong to.
If you see any old thread resurrected, hit the button at the bottom and report it. This is suspicious behaviour too.
Thank you for the info. I've received an email mentioned Fred died...it was sent to my junk . I hope everyone is fine !
I've noticed that when I log out I get an error page still and my account kept giving me the "wrong password" treatment for a few days after the site was down but I think the Terb team handled it pretty well. That Batman loser still keeps popping up to spam every once in awhile so god bless them for dealing with that crazy pretty swiftly and getting everyone their accounts back. I got some pretty weird emails on the account connected to this handle but, thankfully, it's so old I don't even use it anymore. Weird shit.
Others have reported the same. Check this thread for possible solution.
https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?590623-Still-some-problems-here
I got that response when I tried to log in yesterday as well.
I reset my password just to be safe.
Just curious, did anyone try to reset their password and never receive a response? I requested this a couple time yesterday and still have yet to receive a response. I know it's kind of a moot point now but I was just wondering if anyone else ran into this issue.
I'm again to state my position that a certain individual should at the very least be banned from posting in the Lounge considering their comments about the TERB hack. This individual works in the adult industry and should understand better than anyone about the need for discretion, something the hack put at risk. This was not a "funny joke" like they seem to think it was.
Though to be perfectly cynical, I think that was nothing more than an attempt to drum up business and curry favor with the admin of a rival board.
