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Wed, 3 Feb 10

Future of this board

A few months ago, this board was the subject of a 'denial of service' attack by someone attempting to promote the notorious scam site GuysForLadies.com in thousands of automatically posted messages.

This had effect of crashing the board's software, and corrupted the database of comments. It's taken longer than we'd like to restore these, and we apologise for that delay.

We'll see if the scammers resume this attempt, but the move to another message board system is in progress. Before that happens, we'd like to move the comments about a bit. At the moment, most of the comments about scams are in a post about tax issues, for example.

We are committed to retaining some of the features of this board, such as not requiring people to register before posting comments, while resisting the attempts to post spam comments promoting various illegal sites.

It's a pity that the scammers are clearly still going, but as long as they are, we will be here.

Update: Yawn, they are at it again. At the moment, comments are not allowed to any of the posts, but we will be back in September. Apologies to everyone who's unable to post genuine comments.

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Hi wish i had been here BEFORE i paid gseuk £250 for immediate work only to find it is all a scam! they are STILL running this scam, currently advertising in HASTINGS FRIDAY-AD. These people are evil, wish our government would deal with them. Going to start a public movement against them, their office 37b New Cavendish Street London W1G 8JR (virtual office) or 117 Park West, London W12 5G ( if a real office, could be fake like their claim to be legit!)NEED victims to report them to Consumer Direct on 08454040506, lets put these low lifes out of business!!

Posted by Steve on 19 Aug 10

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