jarkor,
this also happened to one of my friends! stay safe out there guys, never download anything without reason

jarkor,
TBH I've seen those messages so much through servers I thought it was common knowledge not click on them at all cause almost every knew it was a scam

deko,
Oh shit, thank you very much!

Grammy,
Check the development channel

So what happened exactly? Anything I need to do on my end to avoid this from happening?

Good to see im not the only one who got the text. Dunno where the fuck they got my cell nr from though

Today I got "hacked" through discord DM, a friend of mine linked a game he was supposedly making. As soon as I run the file in my pc I lost access to my discord account. Be carful in case some one dm u something similar.

tbh it is kinda sad to see that they gone to this level of promotion. imo it's really scummy to promote yourself like this. Most servers I know only do discord server partnerships and that, which is what they did originally and I don't see why they couldn't of just done that again. It puts them at no greater risk of the server getting taken down. Sure things like emails and phone numbers are easliy available for marketing, but thats corporate marketing, where no doubt the data is handled way more sensitivly than how it's been handled here. I would've said they're an okay site, but after this disregard for peoples personal information, I'm not sure about them anymore

Oh wow looking here was helpful. Ive been hearing about all that stuff with the other site but had no idea it was this bad. Thats actually pretty spooky. ty for info everyone <3

Everyone please look at Development

Noprogamer999,
Its not only messaging people on this site but also people who don't use leaking sites
My suggestion is just do what VRModels said and just dont use sites that collet your data through discord authorization.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who got a message last night about the same site ya'll are talking about, the weird thing is i use two different emails, one for my discord and one for this site, but somehow I still received a message about the site. that's what is most concerning to me right now

jarkor,
some people just like to bash on other sites is the way i see it

Why r they so desperate to go against this site? I mean they r putting some effort into this for sure

Ill tell the Spanish chat to also be aware of this

i got a text too and the site SEEMS legit i downloaded a model off of it and it worked fine but yea definitely not gonna use them if they’re gonna pull creepy stunts like that to get customers lol. took my phone number off my discord and other stuff and blocked the number immediately after i got the text

Slavicus,
Stop linking your social accounts anywhere.

Slavicus,
The phone number is your personal information. You have not given them your consent to use it. You can go and report them, and they will be punished. Which we advise you all to do.

Honestly it's the calling out that I use vrmodels that spooks me, It's all well and good that they got my number from telemarketers, but linking it to my vrmodels account is sketch as fuck on their part

Mewomewo,
Never actually used my personal original email and discord ~ for Authorisation.. went there once.. Just remove their access from your discord.
Always use a fake email id for such sites.

This only makes me appreciate this website more and more. Ty for running a site like this VRModels even though it might be risky for u.

im glad

meiluna,
It's OK. Nothing will upset us.

oof... that was.. something. sorry you have to deal with it vrmodels

How I love people who say - and then can't do. Then they start insulting you in return.
Alas. The Internet is not good.

pnKat

Thetah,
No.

Just repeating it again for everyone.
Don't use authorization on any site via discord.
Also don't use authorisation on discord servers via their bots.
That's the whole point.

It's actually terrifying, I was racking my brains trying to figure out what sites had my phone, but also this account uses an email address I haven't used in 10 years so wouldn't even have my current number

Our resource does not use people's mobile phones. After all, we simply have nowhere to get them.
Our project has nothing to do with this.

Do not use sites that collect your data through discord authorisation.

Spyderiali,
damn thats scary

VRModels,
another avatar sharing/trading site sent messages to VRModel members phones to advertise themselves

What are we talking about?

Leona, I agree, your phone number is connected to everything in some sort of way. I definitely wouldn't say you're overreacting, I would be freaked out too

im generally scared by this... i dont want anything to do with them when they do that...

Whatever y’all do, do not interact with them or stop interacting with them, block them, do everything you can to be safe, if they have your phone numbers who knows what else they have, I over react a bit but seriously keep yourself safe

Mewomewo, Oh jeez, why would they do that? If anything that would make me not want to go to that site lol.

I don't know, they're acting like it's completely natural to just source and pull people's numbers. Even said that our locations and what not are public information. They said everyone's info was sold. RIP.

MatchaMojito,
They're texting everyone from this site to join theirs. Basically saying this site is sus and everyone should move over there. I'm like I just didn't want to have a heart attack at 8PM lmao.

Mewomewo,
In my case idk why they conacted me, I'm already am a part of the site lmao

They said they used an information broker to get ahold of everyone's phone numbers through places like Go/o/gl/e, F/B, S/t/e/a/m, H/u/l/u. Not gonna lie that's pretty invasive and going pretty deep to snatch people's information and cause panic like that.

MatchaMojito,
ofc im not gonna metion the site but if you didn't get anything thing you probably have no need to worry

Idk what other site you guys are talking about but I haven't received anything weird.

Mewomewo,
idk, like ive said, strange way of advertising the site. Just wanna add, I do not support this method at all and it kinda feels like a breach of privacy

Spyderiali,
Through Y/a/h/o/o and other email sites, they require a phone number to create an account. That's still not public access so they had to have breached some where and stolen the information. Besides, their terms of service state they will never share information or phone numbers with out contacting the user first. I've never agreed to anything anyways.

Mewomewo,
Well VRM doesnt have any of our numbers, i don't think they ask for that, so a breach here would only give our emails, which isnt what they contacted us by. It's pretty strange

Mewomewo,
Do you know if your email has ties to your phone number anywhere online?

Kinda worried the site got breached some how because they mention VRM in their text message to me. ;-; Big spook.

Spyderiali,
I just don't like the fact they have my private info and can just text me links like that. It has me worried that my info is being used or was breached at some point. Now I don't know if my phone is safe in the least or any of my accounts or emails.

Alright, what I think is going on is the S site wants to get more members to post more avatars and stuff. recently it looks like its activity has been pretty low, so somehow they gotten phone numbers of memebers on this site and are trying to advertise themselves to us. It's concerning how they got the numbers and matched them up, seems targeted atm. Im not gonna say anyone should join it, at the end of the day, your choice

Yeah, this makes no sense how they found my information or got ahold of me. Kinda creeped out Dx

I'm going through VRMods terms of service and stuff and they have it stated that they can share our information with 'trusted vendors, and people we trust'. Thing is, my phone number isn't linked to this website. Last I checked.

The S site is the one that messaged I believe
Also Mods, If this isn't something we should be talking about please let me know, don't wanna break any rules

Why does this site have my number? wtf..

Mewomewo,
Ah, it blocked the word of the other place, understandable.

Is this site the one that has access to my infromation or is it that other one that texted me? I'm not connected to this site or any other with Discord.

Apparently phone numbers aren't things they store.



This is the site that messaged you btw

Spyderiali,
This site or the auRNS{}1~x one? If so, I'm not attached to this or anywhere else through Discord.

Btw for anyone interested, these are the permission the site gets through discord



You have to use discord to sign into the site

Mewomewo,
Yeah, I'm kinda curious about this, imma look around

If you're on their website can you contact them and ask how they're getting everyone's phone number and messaging them? Ngl, afraid to even open their site on my PC. I've already wiped my whole phone top to bottom xD

Mewomewo,
hmmmm, maybe? It is concerning how they have my number. anyone else get this? Would be nice if someone figures what going on

Spyderiali,
I'm not linked to anything through this site or on VRC, the fact they got my phone number has me lead to believe my phone and PC were probably hacked?

Mewomewo,
Yep just got the same message, I'm already a part of that site, but i have no idea where they got my phone number from
Kinda sketchy how they have my number but I trust the site. I was around for when it started originally, seems they got a new discord tho

Some how someone got ahold of my phone number, and sent me a text message about some other archive? A. How did they get my number and B. Has anyone else gotten sent this message?

jarkor, Sometimes Pumpkins tools comes in handy for removing broken or old scripts, but I don't use it that often.

Spyderiali,
I did try that one when I was working on a D20 particle for one of my avatars. It was really useful indeed

jarkor,
atm I've got lyuma 3.0 emulator in moderation for the site, personally I think it's a must. helps when testing avatars a lot, just means you don't need to upload the avatar to test.

jarkor,
No to be honest i didnt know about that stuff so i never looked at it

Do you guys use any kind of helper for unity projects, like pumpkin tools, bloodborne, Avatar Tools or any other that we have in the script section?

Spyderiali,
im sure you'll be a great creator once you learn more, blender is really only hard the first few times and then you get used to it, I just need to learn how to weigh paint and learn how to properly add dynamic bones to my avis in unity.

Leona,
Yeah, best to learn the basics before you get to extremely complicated stuff. I still wanna learn blender properly, that's like the only thing I can't do.
Anyway I hope it goes well and I'm sure your avatars will look great.

Spyderiali,
just simple avis to start then 3.0 ones
id probably take requests
since i have limited stuff

Leona,
Ooooo, sounds good, what type of avatars you thinking of doing?

thinking about making avatars to post here when i get better

MatchaMojito,
Yeah, decided it was unity being untiy. I just made a fully new project. Still need to properly test my avatar, but I think the new project seems okay

Spyderiali, I hate it when that happens, there's probably just one thing that's causing it but it's such a pain to look for the issue it's easier to start over

oof, just went to go edit my personal avatar and seems like every script in my unity project killed itself.
trying to see if reimporting stuff works, but no doubt i gotta redo the whole thing :(

hoo timezone EST now? that's nice!

.......

VRModels,
was talking about the 504 gateway error

jarkor,

At least this time it was a short one

Error 504

VRModels,
ty <3

VRModels,
I was about to ask what is going on with the time, but this explains a lot

VRModels, Thanks support, thinking of us too much

jarkor,
The server cannot set the time for you individually. After all, you are all in different countries. Server is now configured: (GMT-05: 00) Eastern Time (US & NY)

Maybe someone did ask this already but why doesn't the server use the local time for the user instead of a fix time zone?

If my math isn't wrong it should be GMT+3 the one its currently using