Fishy Tracker?

I recently got membership at a small tracker. All was fine then I get a message from "system" with the following...

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If you want to help XtremeFile without donation , Download and install this http://tbadv.eu/8xbCk6 .
Then send a message to us and you're promoted to vip for 2 weeks


NOTICE: This is a mass pm, it has been sent to the following classes: USER, POWER_USER, ELITE_USER, EXTREME_USER, LEGEND_USER, VIP, UPLOADER, PREMIUM_UPLOADER

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So who does this? That was rhetorical. So what is the download? No info included. My best guess is malware or a crypto-mining pack to use my CPU. A message like this makes me not want to use them anymore. Has anyone else seen this?

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Originally Posted by TheEch0

I recently got membership at a small tracker. All was fine then I get a message from "system" with the following...


So who does this? That was rhetorical. So what is the download? No info included. My best guess is malware or a crypto-mining pack to use my CPU. A message like this makes me not want to use them anymore. Has anyone else seen this?

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Isn't this that shady Romanian tracker? It's known for spamming their userbase for donation requests but it seems that now they took it to a whole new level.
Better stay away mate.

Sent from my SM-T113 using Tapatalk

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Originally Posted by masonos

Isn't this that shady Romanian tracker? It's known for spamming their userbase for donation requests but it seems that now they took it to a whole new level.
Better stay away mate.

Sent from my SM-T113 using Tapatalk

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I agree, leading to my point of this post.
email spam from them. FYI/ATTN to new and future torrenters!
(slightly edited to be polite)


Message received from cartoonlime@------.com on 2017-12-24 05:52:20 GMT.
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If you want to help XtremeFile without donation , Download and install this http://tbadv.eu/-x-C-6 .
Then send a message to us and you\'re promoted to vip for 2 weeks

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XtremeFile




Honestly, a little spam begging for a donation is sorta ok. Blindly asking people to install software is way unacceptable.