I replied directly to Jenny and Jake.

This is embarrassing enough to continue writing in public, so I hope this is the last email about this issue.

Just to clarify to those that don't know the details:

For me, this incident was not as black and white as Jake describes it on this list  ("Basically if you get an email from someone from this list, but it's not the email address that they normally use, and they're asking for money and refusing to confirm their identity...it could be a scam.") since I myself, and another sudoer I know we use two email addresses connected to this email list, so this alone, at least in my mind, it was not a red flag that it should have been.

Anyway, I hope that by exposing that bad actor's email address (rcsheets@picote.ch) it may help the rest of us to be alert, and not fall for it.

Thanks.




On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 4:29 PM Jake <jake@spaz.org> wrote:
well the list archives are public, so this kind of thing could happen anytime.

Basically if you get an email from someone from this list, but it's not the
email address that they normally use, and they're asking for money and
refusing to confirm their identity...it could be a scam.

I'm sorry this happened!  We all need to be careful.  Is there anything we can
do to help?

-jake

On Wed, 21 Feb 2024, Jenny Ryan via sudo-discuss wrote:

> I have replied to this privately. Basically, yes. And we may want to go
> through the sudo-discuss list members and do some pruning of possible bad
> actors..
>
> Jenny
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> On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 10:26 PM danarauz via sudo-discuss <
> sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am not sure if I had been scammed or not.
>>
>> A while back when I asked in this list for suggestions about domain
>> companies I received a direct email from someone who said it was Charley
>> Sheets.
>>
>> At the time, even though I was a bit hesitant that I couldn't verify via
>> phone, I went ahead and did business with this person. Transferring some
>> domains and sending some payments. At the time, I thought I would be
>> helping him to build his portfolio to become a domain seller.
>>
>> But, now that I need to make a DNS record (that has to be through him,
>> that was the inconvenience that I accepted) I emailed several emails and I
>> am being ignored.
>>
>> Even though it is embarrassing for me to write this here in the list,
>> Chaley please confirm through the list if that is you the one that holds
>> the email address: *rcsheets@picote.ch <rcsheets@picote.ch>* or not.
>>
>> Thank you, and I apologize if that address is in fact yours and it makes
>> you feel uncomfortable, but it's been two weeks and I am still being
>> ignored.
>>
>> Did I get scammed?
>>
>> Daniel
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