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On Feb 5, 2013, at 5:26 PM, Michael Payne wrote:

Ladies/Gentlemen

I have several items posted on the Craigslist web site. As a consultant my customers require me to assist and advise when they encounter something out of sorts. Today they ran into http://gimphost.org/?u=­

After receiving a text message about an item posted for Trade on Craigslist, from what appeared to be an interested party, the message read, “would you consider a trade for this?”

So my customer selected the URL which was embedded in the Message and that took him to http://img-send.com ! Once they downloaded all of the images and could NOT display them on the Cellular, using your App. They went to a PC and downloaded it again. However, they got the same result. The pictures/images were blank!!!!!!!!!!!

Now this individual, who is using the phone number (412) 280-4580 for the purpose of sending SMS Cellular messages, refuses­ to answer any and all of our text messages.

I don’t think I have to tell you the implications of this in the eyes of the FTC and Craigslist, so I would like to know what your intentions are at this point? Do we need to pursue this or are you going to take steps to end this fraud? I am sure you have a fine product but this is NOT the way to get the word out. In fact it has had the net result of exactly the opposite of gaining our interest and trust and I can all but guarantee you that after having this experience, these guys will NEVER use your product. Not in the current climate.

I await your response.

Sincerely

Michael A. Payne PC

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On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 16:26 -0600, Michael Payne wrote:

Ladies/Gentlemen

I have several items posted on the Craigslist web site. As a consultant my customers require me to assist and advise when they encounter something out of sorts. Today they ran into http://gimphost.org/?u=­

Hi Michael,

We have nothing to do with http://gimphost.org/

The official GIMP website is http://www.gimp.org/

We don't know who is behind gimphost.org, but given that they distribute their own windows installer, I would guess that they bundle some sort of malware or ad toolbar with it.

Please tell your customers that it's really not hard to find GIMP's official sources and binaries, the first hit when googling for "gimp" seems about right to me.

Regards,
--Mitch

After receiving a text message about an item posted for Trade on Craigslist, from what appeared to be an interested party, the message read, “would you consider a trade for this?”

So my customer selected the URL which was embedded in the Message and that took him to http://img-send.com ! Once they downloaded all of the images and could NOT display them on the Cellular, using your App. They went to a PC and downloaded it again. However, they got the same result. The pictures/images were blank!!!!!!!!!!!

Now this individual, who is using the phone number (412) 280-4580 for the purpose of sending SMS Cellular messages, refuses­ to answer any and all of our text messages.

I don’t think I have to tell you the implications of this in the eyes of the FTC and Craigslist, so I would like to know what your intentions are at this point? Do we need to pursue this or are you going to take steps to end this fraud? I am sure you have a fine product but this is NOT the way to get the word out. In fact it has had the net result of exactly the opposite of gaining our interest and trust and I can all but guarantee you that after having this experience, these guys will NEVER use your product. Not in the current climate.

I await your response.

Sincerely

Michael A. Payne PC

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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Michael Payne wrote:

I dont think I have to tell you the implications of this in the eyes of the FTC and Craigslist,

Yes, you don't have to, but it would be nice if you did, because personally I have no foggiest idea.

In fact, I haven't understood 99% of your email. As a non-US resident I know nothing about those text messages, trades on Craigslist etc.

So what is the problem apart from having yet another website that provides GIMP (or "GIMP") downloads?

so I would like to know what your intentions are at this point?

None whatsoever.

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

On 05.02.2013 23:26, Michael Payne wrote:

I dont think I have to tell you the implications of this in the eyes of the FTC and Craigslist, so I would like to know what your intentions are at this point? Do we need to pursue this or are you going to take steps to end this fraud? I am sure you have a fine product but this is NOT the way to get the word out. In fact it has had the net result of exactly the opposite of gaining our interest and trust and I can all but guarantee you that after having this experience, these guys will NEVER use your product. Not in the current climate.

See
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2012-August/msg00074.html

tl;dr: this is a scam, and tricks people into installing a trojan.

If you think that the FTC and/or Craigslist can help to kill this site (or kill the people behind it, I doubt that anything else will help against scams and spam in the long run), please let us know.

Regards,
Michael