I am often asked wy I flame these cretins - Here is why)
Dec 1999 I received an email from Jacek Greber. He and two friends had a website called
www.wideavenue.com and had all but lost their money.
They asked me to help them.
Me and my wife decided to come to Poland to talk to these guys - (I had previously met Jacek as my wife comes from the same City)
I agreed with Jacek, Pawel and Krzystof Slawynskie (Jaqcek's two partners who I had never previously known) to fund a project and for me to take a background roll -
I purchased two domains smokingfetish.net and smoking-fetish.net - Took loads of photo's and videos of models, and we set up a smoking fetish site with the second site meant to be used as a free feeder. I gave the three guys directions in how to get traffic to the sites. (I also paid for many programmes and even gave them a car to help get around)
Ccbill were to act as ccp (I had been with ccbill for a few years, but we set this up as a new account)
The smoking site took off - Our first week saw close to a hundred members join.
This was early April 2000. Two weeks later, the three guys simply disappeared.
I tried to check the ccbill account - All passwords had been changed.
The domain registrar password had also been changed and the whois showed a false name.
At that, ok, I had been ripped off - Put it down to Polish mentallity or something like that!
In August 2000 I saw The Slawynsky brothers with a guy called Przybylsky - A very well known hacker and program cracker - All three ran away!
Late August, I was working at my computers when a member wrote asking me to stop spamming about my other legshow sites (I have owned legshow since 1996) I wrote back saying a) I don't spam and B) I only have legshow.net - Later that day I had other similar letters about a balloon fetish site of mine - I was the first person to run a balloon fetish site - also 1996)
This time I was given the name of the site -
www.balloon-show.com - I had never heard of it - I visited the site and was blocked via htaccess - instead another page came up and written in polish was this headline: We used you and we will fuck you).
I realised they had simply copied the balloon fetish idea from me - I then found legshowgirls and legshow amateurs - Two more copies of my legshow site.
But how were sunny dollars able to write to my members?
I went to my ccbill stats page to change the password - and found over 450 members had cancelled since the previous day!
Changed password and wrote to ccbill (Tom Fisher) - I then heard from a guy called Mark (Risk analyst engineer) Logs showed another Polish ip had entered my stats over 500 times from JANUARY 2000 !!! I knew this static ip to be Sunny Dollars.
Fisher put me in touch with Kim (kimmykim) She was to take care of this for me -
I waited - Days turned into weeks.
During this time my server was so badly hacked that
1) Thousands of galleries were deleted or removed. Images swapped. etc.
2) I was now no longer able to ftp even.
3) Galleries had been uploaded containing images which were not mine
I finally got back to Kimmykim - I was told the stats page being hacked was my own fault and she point blank refused to hand over the log files so I could go to the Police with a good case!
I did go to the Police -Sunny dollars were fined a small amount for having programmes stolen from my computers - They had even hacked past my firewall!
Sunny dollars, by now were getting very well known - They had a few more sites and portals - They were growing very, very quickly.
My server move created more problems of hacking - I phoned xxxwebhosting and was informed by a tech that a rootkit had been found on my server (I had, at that time, never heard of a rootkit)!
I phoned Phil, the owner - I told him who was certainly behind this -
He then phoned back saying sunny dollars has several servers with him and it couldn't be those - In short - he told me to f*** off!
Another server move - This time, I told the new company all about what has been happening and they took special attention of all of my servers - After a week, Todd, of simplecom.net came back to me with this comment:
"In all the years I have been working on servers, I have never seen servers come in for as much hacking as yours - We now empl0y a server security expert who has built our servers into a fortress!
More about Sunny Dollars -
1) The original hacking of my stats page at ccbill got them thousands of email address to both members and webmasters of my program.
2) After a very short time, they had top 50 sites and webmaster portals and of course, the own webmaster programme - All of these places webmasters have to give a user and password - How many other webmasters have had their members emails downloaded?
3) Sunny dollars came out with certain scripts which they claim to have written (traffic traders, email db etc - All in their first few months of operation? A cj script takes months to write and test -
It doesn't end there, but this is enough for now!
Tomorrow, Sunnydollars will spam the World with thier V3 programme.
Do you trust them?