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We have recently received a few reports that someone has launched a phishing campaign to try to steal free HelioHost accounts. We're making this news post to remind you not to click any strange links in any strange emails claiming to be from us. A few things to keep in mind: If you contact support, 99.9% of the time you don't need to post your email address. The reason we require a username during signup is so you can contact support without disclosing any private information, such as your email address. We don't send emails from noreply.heliohost[at]gmail.com or from any other email services like outlook.com or yahoo.com. All of our emails will come from @heliohost.org, or if it's from our support forum, it will come from @helionet.org. We don't use a free Ngrok app to host our login page on some kid's laptop in Italy. Report these links to us or directly to abuse@ngrok.com to get it taken down quickly. We don't use AI to write strange emails to you threatening to suspend you for sending spam or any other reason. All of our emails are written by humans. Free signups are currently closed while we rebuild Johnny, but they will open again soon. There is no need to steal someone else's free account when you can just wait a week or two and then signup for your own account. It honestly doesn't make any sense to launch a phishing campaign against a charity to try to steal free accounts from people who are too poor to afford hosting, but I guess it's just more proof that most criminals are very very dumb, and since they're very very dumb, they resort to crime instead of legitimate activities. As obvious and sad as this phishing attempt is, if you're not paying enough attention or half asleep, it's possible you might accidentally fall for it. Don't click any weird links! Don't try to login to any weird phishing pages! Stay vigilant out there, people!

We have received another phishing attack, most likely by the same organization/user since the format of the website is almost exactly the same as other sites we've reported. Please remove it as soon as possible. Thanks!! http://www.mailboxx.heliohost.org/uleth.ca/Outlook%20Web%20App.htm

Hello, We were targeted by a phishing attack today which pointed us to the following site, can you please remove it? Thanks!! http://www.webmaill.heliohost.org/uleth.ca/Sign%20In%20to%20University%20of%20Lethbridge.htm

The following URL hosted by your company is a phishing site sent via email to my campus. please remove: http://linking.heliohost.org/zim/ http://linking.heliohost.org/mail/ http://linking.heliohost.org

Good Evening. We have detected a phishing site currently hosted here: http://www.olo.heliohost.org/. Among other sites, we detected that this site has targeted the Argentinean Air Force and the Argentinean Medical Program for senior citizens (PAMI). I would appreciate if you can disable the account related to the site and provide any information regarding the owner of the account in order for us to take the proper legal actions. Thanks in advance.

Hello, I'm from Groupon Brazil (http://www.groupon.com.br ) and we identified a phishing site that is a clone of Groupon Brazil. This site (http://grouponcomprascoletivas.heliohost.org/pro/ ) is hosted by you. When the customer click on "Comprar" they ask customer credit card information. You can compare our site (http://www.groupon.com.br) with this one. Please, remove this website ASAP. Thanks, Vanderson C. Santos