Aug 27 2007
Follow-up on Frozen Midnight
Last month (13th July) I wrote a post highlighting some major flaws in the way Frozen Midnight (or Jamie Timbre) does business, seemingly defrauding innocent customers out of money with claims of DoS attacks, phishing, etc.
Shortly after making the post, I was contacted by somebody claiming to be a fellow school pupil of Jamie at the International Academy in Michigan. That is, until Jamie was kicked out of the IA for ‘hacking’ the school system and forging his grades. Of course, because of his age he’s not named in the article and I had no absolute proof that he was in fact one of the students. This morning however, another person came forward stating exactly the same thing. Hardly just coincidence or copycat — the first person contacted me privately by e-mail.
Since the post, Jamie Timbre has made several spam/blatant attacking comments on my blog, and the blogs of others who backed up or plugged my initial entry. Each time using a fake name such as “Lauren” or “Melanie”, but not bothering to cover his tracks leaving an IP which traces back to the Bloomfield Hills area of Michigan (his locality).
Spamage aside, the post did work as intended. A statement was released by Frozen Midnight (all bullshit, but nonetheless effort was made). Several people have since moved away from Frozen Midnight and Jamie has resorted to looking for cheap work online. Most importantly, more and more people are aware of the risk of going with backstreet hosts like FM and are choosing to spend a little more time and effort looking into the possible hosting solutions.
Warning
This post is over 6 months old. This means that, despite my best intentions, it may no longer be accurate. Age, motherhood, experience, loss... these things have all changed me from when this blog was started back in the heady (ha) days of my youth.
As much as I would like to go back and edit 10 years of archives to provide an insight into the 'me' of now — to update coding snippets and revise website advice — it would probably take years to do so (by which point I'd have to start again!) This would defeat the point of keeping these archives anyway.
Please take these posts for what they are: a brief look into my past, my history, my journey.
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