is back but WAIT they want money from you. I was greeted with this unexpectant email from universal sims a day ago and just had to share their pathetic attempt at getting money. who knows if this so-called "attacker" is real. even if it is my question is what happened to all the subscriptions that were going through even though the site hasn't been updated in months?
Hey Xerolize4,
Over the past year, the content team at UniversalSims has been working on an exciting new line of releases for the 2007 year! We can't wait to show everyone what we've been working so hard on.
However first, there is an important announcement to be made. UniversalSims needs YOUR help!
In late January, and all of Februrary 2007 UniversalSims.com was attacked by someone trying to shutdown our site. This resulted in over a terabyte of bandwidth being used by the attacker. It was so clever that it went unnoticed by our meters, thus no block could be issued. Our hosting company slammed us with a $2,250.000 bill, you can imagine that feeling when I saw it.
We are looking into what happenned, we think it may had been executed via a series of malicious scripts. We have requested our hosting company re-evalute the bill, but they would not negotiate, and we don't have the funds to cover a bill like this.
If you could please, donate something to help cover the bill, 99% of our creations are downloaded by free accounts, if you ever thought about donating to help, now is the time. Myself and all the people who help make Universal Sims to be the best it can be appreciate all your support over the years, and hope that we can survive this incident to show everyone the surprises we have been working on the past year.
Donate by amount:
Click the button below, and type in the amount you would like to donate:
Donate by subscribing: You can also donate by purchasing a subscription plan, click the gold button below to view the plans:
Total needed: $2,250.00 USD
EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS. Every one who helps, makes a difference, and brings a much needed smile to our faces.
Thank you for everything over the years, let's make 2007 the best of them all.
Nathan & and the Universal Sims team.
P.S. I will try to get some of the surprise updates out sooner as the donation drive progresses, depending on how things go.
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