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Hack Forums Reviews Summary

The company faces significant reputational challenges, primarily due to widespread customer complaints regarding scams and unprofessional management. Many users report feeling scammed themselves, with a notable lack of accountability from the administration, which often responds to criticism with bans rather than support. While some users suggest that caution can mitigate risks associated with hiring services, the overall sentiment reflects a decline in community value and engagement. The negative experiences overshadow any positive aspects, leading to a consensus that the forum has deteriorated into a toxic environment that fails to meet user expectations.

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Mexico
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It's sad that I got scammed for 250 and the Omni owner instead of help members he was just his feelings hurted and demanded me a apologize for being scammed in his site haha I just laugh in his fat $#*! and got banned and the scammer is still in the forum still scamming LOL please stay away from this skids

Date of experience: July 2, 2024
Sweden
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I got scammed by a user on this web site. When I reported this to "admin" my account was closed.

Reply from admin, Jesse LaBrocca.
"I'm closing your HF account. I don't appreciate the accusation or the bull$#*! you're giving me.

$#*! off."

Date of experience: April 11, 2024
Arizona
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I'm more that willing to show payments made to show I was scammed by there upgraded sellers only to have my posts removed for violation lol I told the guy that flagged me he could remove my account as needed as they only scam I won't lose anything by being removed. I promise if you buy services from them you will be scammed…..

Date of experience: March 13, 2024
Netherlands
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I got a DDOS (Internet shutdown) by the owner because he didn't agree with my post.

After that I got all my reputation removed, muted and banned.

This is a few years ago.

When i try to access the forum now I get banned for " Multi "

Sad, because I respect the people in the community, not the staff.

Date of experience: February 19, 2024
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Don't come to these boards thinking you're going to get rich when that clearly isn't the case and never will be. The only people getting rich off this lame site are the people who advertise and put up for sale their dumb products that will never work on here for the average person. Oh you'll earn $5,000 mining just from a click of a button in one month! LMFAO NO CHANCE. This site is full of scammers. I have bought at least $500 or more in stuff from this site and have made nothing in return. Think about it, if all these supposed methods really worked then why would these people even be selling their methods to begin with? They sell them because they know they can get gullible idiots to buy into the crap they're trying to sell and they're getting away with it. The crypters on this site are a joke, they don't bypass WD or any antivirus around and are overpriced for garbage. Bot sellers take 100 years to deliver. Everybody acts like they know everything but really they're just a bunch of script kiddies that don't know jack $#*! about anything. Site is a total joke. Don't waste your time off this site or the methods presented here because they're all garbage and will only fill the pockets of the people selling it all. All the sellers promise you'll make money with the same scheme, I've got a bridge to sell you in Oklahoma. It's all full of crap. Don't waste your time or money on this non sense site full of arrogant wannabe programmers. It's trash.

Date of experience: June 4, 2023
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I have been dismayed at how Hackforums has descended into a wasteland. I told the owner, the place is fast becoming extinct. You need to treat people better, his response was to ban my account. I have paid over $450 in upgrade fees and donations, a further $700 on awards. I have personally given him a total of $1,150 and he banned me for caring about the place falling to pieces mainly because of his actions.

I would advise everybody not to waste another second there because you will regret it like I did. There is no loyalty or respect. This guy expects money for doing the bare minimum. He offers nothing to the place, just living off his old name when he was a somebody, the forum is pretty much empty.

I am sad but it's time to move on. I wish I did sooner tbh.

Date of experience: May 15, 2023
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Back in the day I would use hackforums to hire designers and coders. Now it's a gambling and political place with nothing of value.

Groups that were once prestigious become worthless by the minute. Soon there will be nobody left except the loony tunes owner who shows contempt for the very people who fuelled his ego trips. Good riddance to bad rubbish. The internet will be a better place without this website and the wacko behind it.

Date of experience: May 8, 2023
GB
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A once bustling community is now down to less than 50 active users a day, less than 1,000 posts per day, just the same few 40+ yr olds who hang around because they haven't moved on. Nothing new is going on. No new methods, no new schemes, no new ideas, just people stuck talking about 2014 over and over and over. It's really sad. The madman owner is still trying to extract money from anyone left even though that is almost impossible to do at this stage. Nobody wants useless awards under their name anymore & the few that do already have 1,000. Everybody is upgraded, there is nothing left to make money from. Why pay for stickes when there is no userbase buying anything any way?

Sad, sad, SAD!

Date of experience: May 8, 2023
Singapore
1 review
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If you are new, the first thing you should do is never visit this forum. Why? You will not learn anything there and you will be deceived there. Or they use and then deceive. Everyone who is objectionable, and everyone who has their own point of view, is simply kicked (banned). Remember this is their face.

The forum has long been transmitting your data at the request of the authorities, they even write about it at the beginning. They do not encrypt correspondence, nor passwords, absolutely nothing. Scan your blockchain wallets and other data. This is another step to have nothing with this forum.

If you need to change your grades at the university? Or access the database? Forget it, you will be in big trouble. Your information will be given to the services, and after a while you will be in jail. Why exactly? They face the choice of either freedom or prison. If you choose freedom, then pass on the data, period. And in such a vile forum, no one will hack, good people will not risk their privacy for the sake of this forum.

If you are offered to work through this forum, do not do it, these people sold their mother a long time ago, and they will sell you too. They have no brains, they have no human form.

Elementarily, they can't even hide their tails on their forum. What there can be serious people. Kindergarten no more.

Date of experience: May 2, 2023
Canada
1 review
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As an observer of this forum for a decent amount of time I am in a good place to give anybody truly interested the most in depth and precise review of this forum.

The brief summary(TLDR version) - Avoid at all costs.

Hackforums once was a bustling community full of teenage coders and young entrepreneurs looking to make money, create platforms, products, improve skills and ultimately become the next Bill Gates.

What is hackforums now? It's a pitiful toxic place where not much really happens and you see the same 20-30 people every day talk about the same things.

The owner has created more enemies than friends and essentially let greed get the best of him. Your chances of being scammed and infinitely higher than your chances of a successful deal or finding anything that would benefit you.

There's a section called e-whoring which is abysmal and underage gambling where kids lose thousands and up scamming somebody to recoup some of the funds.

This was a forum that once had 500 active members at any given time and averaged 25k posts per day at the bare minimum now it gets 1k per day maximum and half of those are new members spamming to build an account they hope to scam from a few days later.

To anybody who values their time or energy AVOID THIS TOXIC CESSPIT and let it fade into the dustbin of history where sadly, it now belongs.

Date of experience: October 25, 2022
Netherlands
1 review
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I would say it is always to make research before hiring hackers. I made some research on Barrysanchez@ hackermail co m based on the recommendation I found so far. I have been able to confirm and used them for real location IP trace which they providing screenshots of the perpetrator who happened to be a colleague in my wife's office. I strongly recommend using them if you need a hacker for hire service. Use ref code HL07, this was the same ref code that was given to me.

Date of experience: August 5, 2022
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The owners are paid to hush people, they aren't for the members and let people get scammed because they get a cut of the money. Literally a huge scam and are just a $#*! website. DO NOT USE THIS SITE. FIND ANOTHER ONE.

Date of experience: August 1, 2022
New York
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I spent at least $500 dollars on services from this website. Each time I was disappointed with the level of communication, and service that was provided by individual sellers.

Come to find out that HackForumz.com is actually a lot more trustworthy with my money than HackForums.Net.

I've emailed the Admin at HF and Jesse Labrocca aka Omniscient told me that he cannot refund me because the services provided was third-party. His staff team don't impliment safe selling practices at all on this site, and it's filled with skids.

I'm glad I switched over to HFZ (Hackforumz.com) because the seem to provide better selling practices, and enforce this on third-party sellers. I bought services from the Administrator there and services were not setup (My premium Account), he apologized, and immediately refunded me as promised. He even told me once services are 100% setup he would provide my premium account for free for the incoveinece.

Stay away from HF. Too many trolls. If you're looking for transparency and freedom. HFZ is the way to go!

Date of experience: June 22, 2022
Arizona
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I think the forum is not the problem, the problem is imply if you meet the wrong hacker or hacker group.
I have been with HL since 2018, I already hired a hacker about last 5 months for phone hack which turn off positive after 9 hours. I will strongly suggest making enough research on any hacker you decide to hire from that forum.
Besides, Barrysanchez@ (hackermail) com was the same hacker I have been using for hacks since the past few months and I have never had any complains.
FYI always make sure you stay anonymous when dealing with these hackers just to be a safe slate.

Date of experience: June 15, 2022
Canada
1 review
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I donated so much to this site and was banned for no reason with no explanation. This has happened to many people. In the site convo I had criticized the owner for money laundering and word must have got back to him so he tried to crush dissent. Amazed this site hasn't been seized by the FBI

Date of experience: April 18, 2022
New York
2 reviews
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I publicly criticized the owner of the forum and his lackluster response led to me private messaging him to close my account as I no longer wanted to be apart of such an ugly place with nobody worthwhile on anymore. I suddenly found my personal email being targeted. This was too coincidental to me and I further looked into it.

I concluded without a shadow of a doubt he personally wanted to get my real name hence the constant paypal requests for a small amount of money. How did he get my email? I had a private message sent 4 months ago where I sent this email(Only time I ever did it) for a payment when my crypto wallet was locked.

To my surprise he actually puts it in the terms and conditions too. So you can see for yourself.

"You consent that Staff group members may have access to the IP address of all posts, your registration IP, and your recently used IP.

You consent that Admin group members may have access to any IP address you've used on the site, your email address, and can have read access to your private message folders.

You agree that the exposure of your IP address to Staff and Admin group members is reasonable for site function.

You consent that site backups may be kept for up to a 6 month period and done on a daily basis. The stored information is only for site backup and recovery purposes and the data is not sold or shared and is kept securely according to internet standards on cloud datacenters"

In conclusion. RUN the forum is run by a vindictive maniac

Date of experience: April 15, 2022
GB
1 review
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Bad vibes run
April 15, 2022

I was an active member for 3 years, got scammed for $300. The scammer was allowed to continue scamming. I messaged the site owner "Omni" and asked why a guy who has scammed $2900 is not banned. He banned me and the scammer, closing our accounts. Instead of just banning the scammer he banned me for daring to ask a question? Truly a selfish terrible man and I'm ashamed I ever spent upgrade fees and gave him money. Avoid or leave. That forum is FINISHED

Date of experience: April 15, 2022
Arkansas
1 review
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HF LOL LOSERS
April 14, 2022

Omni helps the feds. The corrupt ones. 'Nuff said. He's also a pedophile, renting kids for him and his tranny boyfriend/husbandwife/whatever. I hate Omni's BS. He's a $#*!ing $#*!!

Date of experience: April 14, 2022
Illinois
1 review
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The admins of this site are extremely unprofessional, and will resort to name calling and insulting users they're upset with. There are many other forums, Discord communities and subreddits for people interested in infosec and general technology, and I'd highly consider those over this forum. It's a shame the staff conduct themselves in this manner, and I'm sorry to anyone else who has had to endure this type of treatment.

Date of experience: March 23, 2022
MD
1 review
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Hello everyone! I am joing the group with all the other negative reviews of this forum. A few months ago I needed access to an Instagram account and I agreed to work through a contract on this forum. When I finalized the contract with the other party on the substantial amount of $900 my account was blocked the following day. The admins are not responding to my messages, my post was deleted, and I lost my $900. I suggest not to work with this forum because the administration makes money off of this racket.

Date of experience: January 16, 2022

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