Greetings to Off Topic and the entire Civfanatics community.
We have great news. Recently, a CFC member posted that Lemon Merchant had died and we all mourned a tragic loss. She is not dead and so we rejoice and will explain as much as we know about what has happened.
It was a kind of “perfect storm” of events. Back in November nefarious evil doers wormed their way into her computer and captured her internet world without her knowledge (can you say “keylogger”?). They had contacts, passwords, her civ data, etc. Everything they would need to strike her hard. At the same time she made a trip out of town. So using her hacked contacts they told her world, including CFC, that she was dead in a very convincing way. Truth telling was not their goal and so they took what they did know and bent it with lies to make a compelling story. All the while she was out of touch with what was going on.
In staff we made every effort to figure out what was going on and tried to piece together events and get verification of what had happened and if what looked like hacking events, posed any threats to the site. As soon as we began to have doubts about the veracity of the original death notice post, we closed our memorial thread. On Thursday, Lemon was back at home and saw the “mess at her door” and contacted the staff to explain all the weirdness of the past 4 days and how they had been woven into this story of destruction.
CFC staff was just as shocked by this news as most others were. Thank you for your understanding. We are so glad to have her back in the land of the living.
Posted on behalf of all CFC Staff and Moderators
We have great news. Recently, a CFC member posted that Lemon Merchant had died and we all mourned a tragic loss. She is not dead and so we rejoice and will explain as much as we know about what has happened.
It was a kind of “perfect storm” of events. Back in November nefarious evil doers wormed their way into her computer and captured her internet world without her knowledge (can you say “keylogger”?). They had contacts, passwords, her civ data, etc. Everything they would need to strike her hard. At the same time she made a trip out of town. So using her hacked contacts they told her world, including CFC, that she was dead in a very convincing way. Truth telling was not their goal and so they took what they did know and bent it with lies to make a compelling story. All the while she was out of touch with what was going on.
In staff we made every effort to figure out what was going on and tried to piece together events and get verification of what had happened and if what looked like hacking events, posed any threats to the site. As soon as we began to have doubts about the veracity of the original death notice post, we closed our memorial thread. On Thursday, Lemon was back at home and saw the “mess at her door” and contacted the staff to explain all the weirdness of the past 4 days and how they had been woven into this story of destruction.
CFC staff was just as shocked by this news as most others were. Thank you for your understanding. We are so glad to have her back in the land of the living.
Posted on behalf of all CFC Staff and Moderators
