Yes, I realize this is my first post, but I am infuriated and wish to bring this to the RO private server community's attention. "Decker Kai," the owner of "InvokeRO," which is apparently very new, has accessed personal information from at LEAST EuphRO's community. He acquired a list of email addresses used to sign up for EuphRO accounts and solicited them with advertisements for his own server. The email contains no text, but an unnamed html attachment. A quick Google search turns up that it is apparently a real server in the works, but this is an incredibly maddening and shady way of advertising. How do I know this? I signed up for an account with a student email address which absolutely no one except school officials, professors, etc, know about, and yet here I suddenly get the first ever solicitation. I have never used the account to sign up for anything else. Several other different email accounts I used to sign up also received the invitation, though they were found in the spam folder. Several other players whom I am good friends with also received the message, as well as other players when a thread about the situation was posted on Euph's forums.
My colleague registered on Invoke's forums and made a thread about the situation. The forums were immediately protected, the thread was deleted, and my friend was IP banned. He received a PM from the owner clearly suggesting that the accusations are true:
"If you want something talk to me trough PM's if not i'l ask you to leave.
Our opinions about how to advertise are not the same it seems and i don't disagree with you but that's a choice we made here."
I regret that I do not have an actual screenshot of the PM or the thread because it was deleted remarkably quickly. I'm not one to stir trouble or throw accusations around, but I am extremely pissed someone has the audacity to pull a stunt like this to try to gain players and to solicit personal accounts. Yes I realize no information is perfectly anonymous on the internet and I can just as well choose to ignore the email, but I refuse to let someone who just started a server try to gain support with s*** tactics like stealing information from another server. This also poses another question, have any of you players from other highly populated servers been solicited with this message? I realize not much can be done about this, but I frown upon this practice and discourage anyone from joining that server. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
EDIT: Also, I apologize if I posted this is the inappropriate forums.
