Yeah, like I said, that place is now worse than hack forums to be associated with, I honestly feel you are more likely to get what you pay for on HF than LEB and now LET by extension given the creeping influence on there as people wise up to the B
I guess Gordon was right all along, turns out I was the dickhead.
I will just be over here eating humble pie if anyone needs me
On this list, there are a few CC-based companies that have not deadpooled yet. For convenience, I have listed them below (except their main brands + virmach, all of which I do not expect to deadpool)
I split this list into two categories, which I did by gut feel. One category is titled "Companies I do not know enough about", and the other one is "Companies that might deadpool soon-ish".
@cybertech said:
There needs to be a thread with updated list of such hosts
there was lowenddeadpool, but here's what they had to say (c) ColonCrossing 2019:
This site has the intention to list all companies listed at LowEndBox / LowEndTalk that are either about to deadpool or have already deadpooled (including scams hosted by ColoCrossing).
As of April 2019, it is pretty safe to say that all hosts listed at LowEndBox are a scam at best (except for QuadraNet and Virmach).
This illustrates wonderfully what a horrible bunch of scumbags those people at ColoCrossing/Deluxe are. I am very glad that I no longer contribute to LET and left the place. Shall it burn down to ashes.
Amitz, a very stable genius (it's true!) and Grand Rectumfier of the official LESLOS® (LES League of Shitposters).
Certified braindead since 1974 and still perfectly happy.
Drama and speculation aside, it's a good idea to compile a list of the shell companies for the record as a buyer beware PSA. While this isn't new for old forum regulars, LEB might still get linked on reddit or other sites, milking its former reputation as a legitimate place to get cheap server deals.
Of the list, I recall UMaxHosting was discussed on the old forum before when it first appeared as the prime example of the 3-year prepaid scheme (shortly after the AlphaRacks episode), though I hadn't been really following the story. While communities can't prevent people from pursuing the bottom of the barrel, drawing attention to these schemes may have saved some lurkers their money even if we never hear about those close calls. I guess you could call me an idyllic optimist.
This same thing has been going on for years, just sadly another CC scam which is quite bad. Would be interesting to see more details come to light on this.
Solaire said: They didn't even bother to use different ID's for Google Analytics...
Bloody hell!
People in the USA, what is wrong with your business regulation, in the UK with the volume of evidence it would take 1 properly worded email to the correct authority in the UK and people would be serving sentences for fraud within a year.
I cant believe there is not a public body in the USA that will investigate corporate fraud.
Solaire said: They didn't even bother to use different ID's for Google Analytics...
Bloody hell!
People in the USA, what is wrong with your business regulation, in the UK with the volume of evidence it would take 1 properly worded email to the correct authority in the UK and people would be serving sentences for fraud within a year.
I cant believe there is not a public body in the USA that will investigate corporate fraud.
I've sent a mail to the author of the ZDNet article with a link to the evidence and a short explanation. Hope it finds him well.
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Yeah, like I said, that place is now worse than hack forums to be associated with, I honestly feel you are more likely to get what you pay for on HF than LEB and now LET by extension given the creeping influence on there as people wise up to the B
I guess Gordon was right all along, turns out I was the dickhead.
I will just be over here eating humble pie if anyone needs me
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Aaaaaand ... then there were 20. (Added TCNHosting).
These being of course just the most current tip of the stinky shit-iceberg extruding from "colon crossings" ass end ... as per:
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There needs to be a thread with updated list of such hosts
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
there was lowenddeadpool, but here's what they had to say (c) ColonCrossing 2019:
This site has the intention to list all companies listed at LowEndBox / LowEndTalk that are either about to deadpool or have already deadpooled (including scams hosted by ColoCrossing).
As of April 2019, it is pretty safe to say that all hosts listed at LowEndBox are a scam at best (except for QuadraNet and Virmach).
This illustrates wonderfully what a horrible bunch of scumbags those people at ColoCrossing/Deluxe are. I am very glad that I no longer contribute to LET and left the place. Shall it burn down to ashes.
Amitz, a very stable genius (it's true!) and Grand Rectumfier of the official LESLOS® (LES League of Shitposters).
Certified braindead since 1974 and still perfectly happy.
look like all hosts on LEB are going to be Deadpooled. I think they will come up with new names and this loop will continue forever.
Oops, I'll give that site an update in a bit.
So lucky I dont have any VPS with those "shit providers"
Done
. Put some ads for LES while I was at it.
https://lowenddeadpool.info/
Naise!
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spelling is wrong, its ColonCrossing
Drama and speculation aside, it's a good idea to compile a list of the shell companies for the record as a buyer beware PSA. While this isn't new for old forum regulars, LEB might still get linked on reddit or other sites, milking its former reputation as a legitimate place to get cheap server deals.
Of the list, I recall UMaxHosting was discussed on the old forum before when it first appeared as the prime example of the 3-year prepaid scheme (shortly after the AlphaRacks episode), though I hadn't been really following the story. While communities can't prevent people from pursuing the bottom of the barrel, drawing attention to these schemes may have saved some lurkers their money even if we never hear about those close calls. I guess you could call me an idyllic optimist.
This same thing has been going on for years, just sadly another CC scam which is quite bad. Would be interesting to see more details come to light on this.
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Adding SolvedByData (disolved by ColoCrossing, ammirite?)
not sure if I may have missed any others in the interim ...
but at this point it looks like the count is 21 (jackpot!
)
Here's a canary (currently on Hosting73, thanks to @dahartigan
) - maybe it gets cached by cloudflare or something, I dunno.But sooner or it's gonna be "bye bye birdie" time ...
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I'll just leave this here .....
https://www.zdnet.com/article/20-vps-providers-to-shut-down-on-monday-giving-customers-two-days-to-save-their-data/
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Wow, they made ZDnet. They hit the mainstream.
Clearly ZDnet is part of the fake news paid media.
Only rt dot com report truth and actual reality. /s
?
lol is surely all just a dastardly plot to usurp our wingnut authooooooritah!1!
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Slashdot , oooh.
https://slashdot.org/submission/10839520/20-low-end-vps-providers-shutting-down-in-a-deadpooling-scam
https://hostingchecker.com/more-than-20-vps-companies-closing-on-monday-are-they-connected/
seems GoDaddy is the registrar of choice
They didn't even bother to use different ID's for Google Analytics...
gtag('config', 'UA-129769654-2'); gtag('config', 'GA_MEASUREMENT_ID_2', { 'linker': { 'domains': ['UMaxHosting.com', 'SupremeVPS.com', 'HostBRZ.com', 'SparkVPS.com', 'BigFootServers.com', 'SolvedByData.com', 'N3Servers.com', 'MegaZoneHosting.com', 'KudoHosting.com', 'HostedSimply.com', 'WelcomeHosting.com', 'KayHosting.com', 'Hosting73.com', 'UpbeatHosting.com', 'LQHosting.com', 'SnowVPS.com', 'DCNHost.com', 'StrongHosting.com', 'ArkaHosting.com', 'ServerStrong.com', 'X4Servers.com', 'TCNHosting.com', 'SuperbVPS.com', 'VPSFortune.com', 'MyHostingSrv.com'] } });In human friendly format:
These were rumored but no emails been sent about them.
Too fucking funny.
So 25 total. Wow.
Francisco
Bloody hell!
People in the USA, what is wrong with your business regulation, in the UK with the volume of evidence it would take 1 properly worded email to the correct authority in the UK and people would be serving sentences for fraud within a year.
I cant believe there is not a public body in the USA that will investigate corporate fraud.
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I've sent a mail to the author of the ZDNet article with a link to the evidence and a short explanation. Hope it finds him well.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Perhaps they have the contacts and press influence to get something started that none of use ever could.
if colocrossing ever get officially investigated I am going to be celebrating with free services for everyone.
i also think we should all try to start typing colocrossing+deluxe instead of cc to make it easier for anyone investigating to find.
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My thought exactly
Normally I will caution correlation is not causation, but when you have 20... the odds are way too low that they are unrelated.
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that and the direct relation shown by @Solaire if your using the same google analytics account, you are related, simple.
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thats stupidity. If it was the old "LEAdmin", he would have caught it. He was good at such things