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Scam or just incompetent? You decide.

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tallinnying

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Night Shift

13 #1

So I was migrating a client off this provider, let's call them Contabo (not their real name but close enough), and their "hardware failure" story felt weird. Anyway I had some time at 3am so I wrote a quick scraper

#!/bin/bash
# whois history checker because i don't sleep
for domain in contabo.com ovhcloud.com vultr.com; do
  whois $domain | grep -E "Creation|Registrant"
done

All three domains registered to the same shell company in wyoming. Creation dates: 2024-11, 2025-02, 2025-08. Same phone number. Idk why I do this

The best part? They "recovered" the data for $800. Same playbook every time. Lose data, offer paid recovery, rebrand when heat gets too high.

builds at 3AM, sleeps at noon
Joy

Member

#2

Very interesting lah xixixi

I am buy vps from them last year, then data is gone, then they are say "pay 500 dollar we can recover" — I am not pay, I am cry xixixi

Now I see they are same people? Pake phake name again and again

herebungkus

Member

🌏 SEA represent

#3

Oh no, I am almost buy from them last month! Can you share the whois data more, thank you? I want to check can-slow-slow before next purchase, wkwkwk

This kind of penipu (scammer) always come back with new baju (clothes), same bad smell inside. Thank you for warning, thank you thank you

wrap it, ship it, pray it
PacketpunkUma

Member

#4
Joy said:
Pake phake name again and again

They never even changed the name servers! Same racknerd.com across all three brands! I checked!

The recovery fee is always $800 or $500! That's the tell! Same invoice template too! I found it on the Wayback machine!

Whois privacy is a scammer's best friend! End rant! 💀

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