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Fraudulent Domain Related to Your Project

Open mstanislav opened this issue 2 months ago • 2 comments

I am currently performing outreach to over a hundred web sites and open-source projects related to a pay-to-play content farming operation that has a domain similar to this project. This may be known to the project already but our scale of notification has made it difficult to spend time checking 1-by-1.

I was unable to find a good contact email for this project or maintainers involved off hand, but if someone is interested to learn more -- including details on the business likely involved -- feel free to contact me directly ([email protected]) and I can provide further details to whomever is the best contact point. Thanks!

mstanislav avatar Oct 21 '25 15:10 mstanislav

Hi! If the info isn't sensitive, feel free to post it here or ping me on the Stardew Valley Discord. This is a hobby open-source project though, so there's very little I can do about any malicious third-party domains.

Pathoschild avatar Oct 22 '25 01:10 Pathoschild

No problem! The domain we spotted was smapidown[.]com in a research project that has led to 120+ similar notifications so we generally just tried to be less likely to create new signal on their domain. And totally understand, many projects are in a similar boat.

We are taking some additional efforts directly, which may help, but overall wanted to ensure all projects at least had a clue to share to their communities as needed. Thank you for responding!

mstanislav avatar Oct 22 '25 13:10 mstanislav