We’re hearing rumors that LCF admin — in yet another brilliant display of short-sighted irrationality — plans to hide the entire contents of Ask Kimmer thread, rendering them effectively nonexistent for public reference, research, and investigative purposes.
http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/10137216-post76.html [a big thanks to whoever found that post!]
Any bets on how much “LCFSam” plans to charge for the Samkins diet?
This just in! Some of the Nancies have discovered that Sam has copies of Kimkins graphics and templates stored at his website. As you may recall the chicken people also have copies of Kimkins graphics & templates — that’s partly what they hired the freelance coders for. And the reason they wanted those copies of Kimkins graphics & templates? Because they were setting up a website to sell their diet. So what is ”Sam” doing with those graphics and templates?
Saturday 12 April BREAKING NEWS! LCFSam appears to have hacked into the Kimpire! details at http://mariasol-mariasol.blogspot.com/2008/04/kimkins-hacked.html
Other blog coverage of various LCFSam discussions:
http://prudentiablog.blogspot.com/2008/04/invitation-to-dialogue.html
http://prudentiablog.blogspot.com/2008/04/who-is-sam-redman.html
http://mariasol-mariasol.blogspot.com/2008/04/what-do-kimmer-and-sam-redman-have-in.html
http://prudentiablog.blogspot.com/2008/04/devils-advocate.html
http://2medusa.blogspot.com/2008/04/prairie-justice-sam-redman-i-think-not.html
In light of her recent acts of agression – including The Battle of Martina’s Martini, skirmishes with Amy, the Crispybread invasion, the long-range shelling of Yahoo Answers all over the world, and now what seems to be a declaration of all-out total annihilation war against The Jimmy – we’re guessing that Heidi’s desperation is escalating to unprecedented heights. We want to know why. Why now. The trial date is approaching, sure, but does that alone account for all this?
http://livinlavidalocarb.blogspot.com/2008/04/aggressive-hacker-attack-on-my-forum.html
[Note: a big thanks to dpotz for bringing this to our attention! We appreciate you D!]
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Aggressive Hacker Attack On My Forum, PayPayl, And E-Mail Is Obviously Personal
Somebody out there must really be mad at me right now. I don’t know what I said or did to deserve any of the things that have happened to me this week, but whatever it is I apologize. Since Monday, I have been under a daily barrage of hacker attacks on my forum, PayPal account, and e-mail account from someone who no doubt is holding a grudge against me since they are doing their best to make my life a living Hell.
So, how’s YOUR week going so far? Can you believe the audacity of someone to put together such a string of nuisances in the span of just a few days? Well, it’s happened now and at such an inopportune time since I am leaving out of town today for that trip to Atlanta and then Phoenix (I’m already running late so I could write this post). And I can’t help but think the timing is almost TOO perfect.
What happens next? Well, stay away from the forum until I can sort out how to place more protective measures on it to keep it safe from hackers. My public relations company says I should probably start over from scratch with a brand new site and I may just have to do that when I get back early next week. In the meantime, there are some EXCELLENT low-carb forums out there and you can find links to them at my blog.
While I don’t have any specific proof yet about who is doing this obviously personal attack against me and the people who support me this week, I have my suspicions that it is related to a now infamous diet scam artist who has her reasons for wanting to come after me. Again, this is just a gut feeling, but I don’t really know yet. All I do know is that person had access to my username and password at her web site and made the connection to my forum, PayPal account, and e-mail account. I have since changed all my passwords everywhere.
As I previously wrote in this blog post http://livinlavidalocarb.blogspot.com/2007/09/kimkins-calamity-from-merely-raw.html if you were at all affiliated with that web site in any way, then you need to take precautions to protect yourself against an attack like this, too. CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS and get protection from companies that guard your personal information. Thankfully I had already done that with my credit months ago.
Here’s a brief timeline of events that have taken place this week:
MONDAY, APRIL 7
My discussion forum was taken over by a hacker who replaced all the low-carb threads with ones about marijuana, cocaine, and pornography. The hacker totally disabled my administrative access to the forum as well as to all my moderators. Additionally, this person began posing as other people on the forum, including me, claiming that I didn’t want to talk about low-carb anymore because “we all know you need carbs” and that I’d rather talk about drugs instead.
TUESDAY, APRIL 8
My PayPal account which had a good amount of money in it was hacked in the amount of $81.93 made payable to a digital video download company called Movielink, LLC. Since I had never even heard of this company, I thought this was one of those fake PayPal “phishing” expeditions that sucker people into giving their username and password to crooks. But when I went to the PayPal site to inquire, I noticed my balance was reduced. I immediately contacted both Movielink and PayPay to report this unauthorized charge and transferred all of the money that was there to my checking account. Around midnight, the Admin of my forum told me it was back up again, but he said we lost about 6 months worth of posts and subscribers.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9
When I logged in to my e-mail account this morning, I noticed several of the “new” e-mails in my box had been marked as “read” because they were no longer bold. I immediately got on the phone with Charter and changed my password. Additionally, a PayPal debit card was created in my name without my authorization. The $81.93 charge was refunded to my PayPal account. But worse than all of that, the hacker got the forum again (just hours after it came back) and sent the following message to the entire member database at my forum posing as me:
You must click the following link in order to recieve our new information on the forums. Nobody can be trusted as we have lost everything and only the few of you loyal members will receive the information on our new whereabouts. Here is the link [note from Yucky -- we're not going to include the link here]. Open it on your computer and you will be asked to enter a code. After that it will give you the link to the new website. This way the hackers cannot follow us.Sincerely Yours,
Jimmy Moore
When I am finished writing this blog post, I will be contacting my local police department to advise me about how to proceed forward investigating this crime which I believe is “terrorism.” That may sound like a strong charge to make post-9/11, but this person is doing their darndest to terrorize and bully me with these cowardly tactics. Too bad for them, it ain’t working. I’m not going anywhere, so you might as well get used to seeing and hearing from me early and often.
Please feel free to e-mail me at livinlowcarbman@charter.net if you have any information to share with me about prosecuting the person or persons who have perpetrated this crime against me this week. If I can prove who did it, I will bring charges against them to the fullest extent that the law will allow. This is uncalled for and I do not take it lightly. The person who did this doesn’t know who they’re messing with.
THANK YOU to everyone from my forum who alerted me about the virus message today and I do apologize for that. Please delete that message immediately and I’ll communicate to you through my blog when we are ready to relaunch the forum. One thing’s for sure–you can’t say this low-carb lifestyle thing is boring anymore, can ya? 
Take care everyone–it’s time for me to hit the road! SEE YA!
Get back to work ….
From time to time, when things get a little too noisy for the people who like to enjoy these pre-trial downhill days of the antikimkins movement in peace & quiet — and who can blame them? – and when things get a little too out of control for the people who – some of them for the most noble of reasons — like to control stuff, we’re told that we need to stop whatever it is we’re doing and ”get back to work”.
Get back to work doing what? we ask.
“Bringing Heidi down!” they reply. “Get back to work putting Heidi out of business. Destroying the Evil Kimpire. Seeing to it that Justice is done, and the Law upheld, and Kimmer locked away behind bars or at least not in front of a computer.”
And just to make sure we understand what it is we’re being told to do — because, ya know, we really do want to understand — we ask – what is it, exactly, that we’re supposed to be doing that hasn’t already been done, many times, by many many people, and that isn’t continuing to be done?
Weeds that need pulling are being pulled, thanks in large part to the astounding organizational and motivational skills of WildAngel, BamaGal and so many unsung heroes — the weedpullers who have worked, and continue to work, so hard & so patiently.
Links & backlinks are being tended to, affiliates are being hounded, and sponsors are being preached to. The real bloggers are continuing to blog & get the word out about not only the scam & the scammer, but also about all matter of weightloss-related issues that inform and encourage. The Fascination fans continue trying their best to participate in open & honest discussion of all things Kimkins in spite of censorship by the Deleters & their pets. Information is still being gathered, the public is still being educated, and Gary’s jalapeno panties are still being mocked.
Evidence has been excavated, months and months of hard slogging, by hordes of dedicated Negative Nancy Drews among whom we (ok so I’m getting back into Team Yucky character here, bear with me er uh I mean us) …. lowly googling Negative Nancies among whom we with pride count ourselves.
The lawsuit lumbers onward, unimpeded by our nonsense & ugly noise.
Media outlets have been contacted and continue to be contacted.
State and federal agencies have been deluged with emails and phone calls and packets of papers.
Herds of suited civil servants have been pestered for months on end, so why – why? – are we being told to “get back to work”? When the fact is, we — meaning all of us — we’ve never stopped. Sure, we’ve paused, from time to time. We’ve shopped, mopped, worked (and shirked), vegetated, fumigated, ranted, planted, prayed, played, traveled, unravelled, wined & dined. A bunch of us have gotten sick and recovered, and tended to sick family members. We’ve all dealt with our lives. We’ve all done stuff. The usual stuff that people have to do, or want to do, or just simply do, for whatever reason. The usual stuff and some not so usual stuff, too — including investigating the MCD and a few other things which shall — for now — remain superduper supersecret.
But it’s not often that the Taskmasters frown at us for doing those things. They don’t usually tell us to get back to work bringing Heidi down or putting Heidi out of business, etc., when we’re just going around living our lives and trying out Medusa and Cleochatra’s yummy recipes.
No. They usually tell us to get back to work bringing Heidi down when we break two specific but related rules on The List – and those two things are (1) Distracting, and (2) Being Distracted.
And the reason that those two things are Not Allowed is, we’re told or led to believe, that while we’re Distracting and/or Being Distracted, the entire state and federal investigation comes to a screeching halt, the lawsuit freezes in its tracks, and everybody “all over the LC world” is forced to drop whatever they’re doing and come over here, a captive audience, bound & helpless .
In short, we must neither Distract nor Be Distracted because if we do, Heidi and her flying monkeys will triumph. So, ”Get back to work!”
We don’t know why. We would like to know why. But when we ask, “What exactly is it we’re supposed to be doing that hasn’t already been done, and that isn’t still being done?” the Taskmasters pretend to not hear us.
And yet, we continue to whine, and while we whine, we wonder … Why. And what. Why are we being told to get back to work, and what work is it that we’re suppoed to get back to? What are we — really – supposed to be doing, now that Team J has seen the lawsuit well and truly on its way, trundling onward to whatever the future holds. What are we supposed to be doing, now that we’ve all managed to pester the heck out of countless state and federal authorities, and now that we’ve managed to convince the national media to pay attention?
Seriously, we want to know. Get back to work? Doing what?
Remember when the motto of the antiKimkins movement (or at least, Ducky’s motto) was, “The truth needs to be told.”
Then Kimkins Exposed expired, Kimkins Exhausted existed, and the motto (at least, our motto) was, “The truth still needs to be told.”
Now the motto is, “The truth needs to be appreciated.”
Unless it’s appreciated, it won’t be told.
At least, that seems to be the case according to a blogger known as The Truth About Heidi’s Private Messages, or TTAHPM (TAH, for short) http://thetruthinhiding.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-poll.html
We’re curious as to what exactly TAH is planning on blogging about. Is she planning to publish old stuff from Heidi’s p.m. stystem that were found long ago before the access was blown? Or does she still have access to Heidi’s p.m. system and plans to publish new stuff, thereby blowing that access again?
