Spammers are disseminating a new illegal SL client under Gwyneth Llewelyn's name

Hi! If this is the first time you’re visiting my blog, you’re probably looking me up because you received a spam notecard announcing a new SL client, “Neil Life”, which allegedly has a lot of illegal features — among these:

reenabled control alt shit t like cool viewer to get texture uuids plus mine also grabs sculpt ids. But Please respect permissions.

Modified the copybot patch but still please respect permissions.

You should be thrice warned. First, the spammers are using notecards (apparently translated in several languages; I got one in Portuguese) that bear my name as owner. They very likely got one notecard from me with full perms (there are so many around…), changed all the text, and send them to others from objects called “Gwyneth Llewelyn”. That’s as far as I’ve been able to track down; from there on, stopping the “chain letter” effect of people circulating those notecards is very hard. So far, I haven’t been able to find someone proficient enough with Second Life that managed to figure out the location of the spamming object, so that it can be reported to Linden Lab, deleted, and the owner of it permabanned for violating the Linden Lab Terms of Service for Second Life (impersonating another user; spamming/chain letter; distributing a tool that violates the Terms of Services regarding illegally modifying other users’ content without their permission).

Secondly, this notecard will point you to a link on 2shared.com, where you can download a RAR file which contains a Windows-compiled version on this so-called “Neil Life” SL client (mentioned on 2share.com as “Client with copy and permission change functions.”), with the full source code. 2shared.com got an abuse report from me, but, at the time of writing this post, they haven’t deleted the RAR file yet (they seem to host these files completely anonymously and probably ignore all abuse reports). So people are still downloading it (8 downloads since my last visit there). Do not download this file (specially if you have a Windows computer). Even if it shows free of virus, anyone who creates an illegal SL client really doesn’t stop at that. It might, just like the infamous vLife, simply steal your password — you’ll never notice it until one day you log in with another client and see your L$ have disappeared (and if you’re a content creator, it’s highly likely they will steal your content too, if they caught your password). I have not audited their code, since I don’t have enough experience to do that.

And thirdly, more important for me, I have absolutely nothing to do with either “Neil Life” or anyone currently spamming other users with notecards bearing my name. Most of these notecards are quite old, possibly even from 2004 or 2005, from a time where nobody thought of spamming other users with fake identities. I’m just a victim too.

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Breast Cancer scammer!

It never ceases to amaze me that some scumbags can take advantage of Cancer.

This month is Breast Cancer Awareness month:

Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) was introduced as a worldwide campaign in 1993 by Evelyn Lauder to:
increase awareness of breast cancer
raise funds for research into the disease
support people affected by the disease.

There are official charities set up in Secondlife and they will always be open and will never solicit donations, most will have official vendors which pay an authorised avatar.

NEVER pay an individual for a donation - it has come to our attention that someone called beauu Twine is dropping pumpkins (made by someone else) on random avatars and then asking for a donation for breast cancer:

"beauu Twine: Im handing out breastcancer pumpkins for a 100l donation please be kind ty for supporting breast cancer reasearch!"

One look at his profile tells its own story, there is some information that he is also sending out group invites to an unrelated group. The only sure information that we have on this avatar is that he has/does work for "DeRailed" an inworld club - if you know this person then please teach him some morals this kind of scam hurts those really trying to raise awareness of breast cancer.

If this avatar drops you an item and then solicits you for a donation you can be pretty sure its going in his own pocket - feel free to file an abuse report and have his account suspended/frozen!

Fraud like this makes me sick as I am sure it does many others who work genuinely to help support cancer survivors inworld.

If you want to donate to charity check its the genuine charity first - real charities will have no problem answering questions and giving you information so you can donate out of secondlife!

Scammers like this need to be stopped!

ATM Exploit issues being dealt with

As of July 25th, a security flaw was uncovered in regards to the operation of ATM's in-world, with all of the exchanges as well as a few other ATM operators working to address these issues.
View details here: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-2693
Cocky Dagger of ISE took down all of his ATM's and is getting set up to handle all transactions directly using a new avatar. So anyone desiring to make any type of deposit or withdraw with ISE needs to contact him directly. Meanwhile IntLibber Brautigan of ACE is working with their IT VP Hamncheese Omlet to deal with these issues by setting up server side systems to double check the validity of all ATM transactions. Apez and SLX's ATM's apparently already have these checking systems in place and thus should be safe. VSTEX has posted in their forums that they have implemented increased security measures but have not revealed what those are and have not reactivated their ATM's yet.
No word has been heard as of yet regarding how SLCAPEX is handling this situation (or at least not that I've seen). However when trying to visit the SLCAPEX ATM at their headquarters, it appears that they are no longer there, as a club now sits at their landmark for the SL Capital Exchange??? If anyone knows what happened to SLCAPEX, please let me know so that we can make such information publicly available.

For your information

We are seeing difficulties with logging in at present and are currently investigating this. More information when we have it.
Apologies for any inconvenience this is causing.

I also have reports of huge problems in world - blank inventory, no teleport, no friends list etc.....
NOT a good day for Secondlife lets hope its sorted out soon.

Dana