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Tell HN: How to stop fraudulent invoices from FogBugz

9 pointsby user5994461over 2 years ago
Hello HNers,<p>It&#x27;s been reported that FogBugz started sending large amount of fraudulent invoices on or about Friday 16th September 2022.<p>See twitter and HN threads about the issue https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;josephruscio&#x2F;status&#x2F;1570957688405917698<p>If you have received fraudulent emails and invoices from FogBugz, there&#x27;s a very simple first step you can do to help prevent harm to other victims.<p>* In Firefox, you can open the website https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fogbugz.com&#x2F;sign-in&#x2F; , then open &quot;Help&quot; menu, &quot;Report Deceptive website&quot;.<p>* In any browser, you can open the page to report deceptive websites here https:&#x2F;&#x2F;safebrowsing.google.com&#x2F;safebrowsing&#x2F;report_phish&#x2F; then fill in the URL https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fogbugz.com&#x2F;sign-in&#x2F;<p>Google and Firefox maintain a list of websites performing active attacks of phishing&#x2F;fraud&#x2F;malware&#x2F;etc. The lists are updated in the background hourly or so for all users of the browsers. A site should be blocked in no time once it&#x27;s been reported enough time.<p>It&#x27;s been very effective at stopping large scale attacks in the wild. That&#x27;s one of the reasons you see elaborate attacks these days having to circle through many domains, otherwise they get blocked in no time.<p>There may be more you can do (some comments mentioned writing to your Attorney General and starting class actions lawsuits) however these take a while to initiate and do not stop active harm in the meantime.<p>Regards.

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chrisbucover 2 years ago
Urgh - I got one of these - completely forgot that I&#x27;d set up a fogbugz account years ago. Don&#x27;t know if these invoices are as a result of a hack, or whether it&#x27;s because it&#x27;s now owned by another company and they&#x27;re pre-emptively &quot;upgrading&quot; previously free accounts to &quot;paid&quot; accounts in the hope that they&#x27;re going to get some subscriptions...<p>The email had some vlaid account fogbugz account details, so it&#x27;s at least coming from their database...
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