{"id":3727,"date":"2017-02-17T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T09:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.media\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2017-02-17T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T10:00:15","slug":"emercoin-claims-spammer-attempt-to-discredit-the-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/emercoin-claims-spammer-attempt-to-discredit-the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Emercoin Claims Spammers Attempt to Discredit the Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oleg Khovayko, Emercoin CTO, told ForkLog the project&#8217;s assumed rivals were trying to undermine the company&#8217;s reputation with spam in Slack channel.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to Khovaiko, the attacks are growing more sophisticated as the spammers mimic Emercoin&#8217;s official newsletters, and use a popular corporate messenger app for that purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, a user named buycoin sends out ads of the company&#8217;s solution based on outdated software to users having some relation to cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>The newsletter looks as follows:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forklog.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emercoin-spammed01-1-1024x5551.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3728 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/forklog.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emercoin-spammed01-1-1024x5551.png\" alt=\"emercoin-spammed01-1-1024x555[1]\" width=\"1024\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emercoin-spammed01-1-1024x5551.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emercoin-spammed01-1-1024x5551-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emercoin-spammed01-1-1024x5551-768x416.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emercoin-spammed01-1-1024x5551-470x255.png 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notably, the spam mailing started the day before the release of the company&#8217;s merged mining solution.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/emercoin\/status\/832299738363994114<\/p>\n<p>Khovayko says that Chronobank were the first to complain about the spam. Shortly afterwards, those affected by spam messages started complaining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ethereum\/comments\/5tspis\/ethereum_related_slacks_spam\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Reddit<\/a>. Moreover, there were some community members who opted to leave Slack cryptocurrency channels in an attempt to avoid possible scam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forklog.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emercoin-spammed01-21.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3729 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/forklog.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emercoin-spammed01-21.png\" alt=\"emercoin-spammed01-2[1]\" width=\"1004\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emercoin-spammed01-21.png 1004w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emercoin-spammed01-21-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emercoin-spammed01-21-768x337.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emercoin-spammed01-21-470x206.png 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1004px) 100vw, 1004px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Emercoin announced its official switch to <a href=\"http:\/\/forklog.media\/miners-now-can-mine-bitcoin-and-emercoin-simultaneously\/\" target=\"_blank\">merged mining<\/a>, which would allow the platform&#8217;s users to mine Emercoin and Bitcoin simultaneously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oleg Khovayko, Emercoin CTO, told ForkLog the project&#8217;s assumed rivals were trying to undermine the company&#8217;s reputation with spam in Slack channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"human_written","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[588,356,633],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-chronobank","tag-emercoin","tag-spammers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"236","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3731,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions\/3731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}