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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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Arkansas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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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
4 helpful votes
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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
2 helpful votes
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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
France
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ce site (qui se fait passer pour un forum) est dirigé par des arnaqueurs qui créent de faux profils afin de vendre des "formations" qui vous arnaquent du début à la fin. Faites très attention.
Par exemple, ils vendent une méthode censé vous rendre riche. Cette methode est évidemment payante. Après avoir obtenu la méthode, ils vous expliquent une manière de vous faire de l'argent qui en réalité vous arnaque en vous faisait utiliser des scripts/logiciels qu'ils ont conçu pour vous prendre votre argent.

C'est un réseau bien ficelé qui ne devraiuement pas exister et qui fait miroiter à des personnes en besoin d'argent des astuces miracles qui vous font perdre de l'argent.

Date of experience: January 5, 2022
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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My review of hackforums is quite simple. Eventually you grow up and see it for what it is. It's a racketing operation in which the owner benefits financially from the crimes of others.

Every member is replaceable under this model and the forum is set up to benefit criminals, scammers and ultimately the owner who benefits from everything.

I am actually embarrassed I spent so long as a member on the forum. There were some good and fun times and honestly I did make some good money but ethically and morally it is a defunct place.

For example trappy is a huge ebook seller there and he sells total trash but he will be defended by the owner at all costs since he pays weekly a nice amount in stickies. So the average person who has no idea they're buying trash loses but both the owner and trappy benefit and that is the whole model right there.

Everybody knows trappy is selling junk but nothing changes. To anybody thinking of joining, don't bother it's best days were years ago and now it's just sad. To the people still wasting time on the site, let it go.

Date of experience: November 16, 2021
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Brilliant network
October 14, 2021

Very happy to be a long serving member of this community.
Great products & great services, only the best management.
Very fascinating updates to the network, I see great potential.
Very incentivising.

Date of experience: October 12, 2021
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Very toxic forum!
August 16, 2021

The forum was very toxic. It is like the owner is trying to bleed every penny out of everybody crazy enough to stick around. Every other day somebody was exit scamming. From top to bottom the forum is a must avoid place. I was surprised at the rating here but having looked at dates it seems most of the positive reviews came on two exact dates meaning the owner encouraged members at the time to leave positive reviews probably in the hope of gaining favor of him.

Hope this helps people.

Date of experience: August 16, 2021
NL
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I spent some time on this hellhole and here is my review.

Full of degenerate gambling. Illegal gambling. Underage gambling.
The only active section is e-whoring which consists of grown men swapping packs of teenage girls naked & pretending to be them to scam other men.
Scams everywhere.

It is a really toxic community with terrible staff and a 50+ yr old owner who is stuck in his ways & makes a fool of himself on a regular basis.

I think the Governor of Nevada should really be looking into the owner for some of the activities he promotes on there.

Some more info. They can read all your private messages at anytime. The business model is set up where you have to pay the owner big money to ever get him to do the right thing. Where you get banned or account closed for anything so you sign up again... and then have to pay the owner again in upgrade fees. Thankfully it's dying quick and has dwindling members... nevertheless it's important people stop funding terrible people like the clown in charge of that forum.

I also feel anybody associated with the forum should look at themselves long and hard. Will there be consequences for all the illegal stuff the owner has profited from on there? Hopefully soon.

Date of experience: August 15, 2021
New Zealand
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Early in the year I saw people banned by Omni just for not liking Trump. How do you have a politics forum if you are going to cry like a baby when people don't buy all your OAN propaganda? Get rid of the politics forum if you can't handle real debates.

Date of experience: July 20, 2021
New Zealand
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Dude how unAmerican Omni is to ban people for having a different opinion from his own in a politics forum he created pretending it's for people to have discussions but they have to have the same opinions as the forum owner. Omni you come across as really emotionally unstable, Someone said you are an alkie so maybe you do it when you are drunk? Do you think people who have paid for uber are going to buy more awards from you when you are so rude to them for expressing opinions different from you own in a forum you created for expressing opinions. He gets especially nasty with people who don't think welfare recipients should have all their money taken away and then it's funny that he's calling his members pieces of $#*! for not wanting other people to be homeless etc... I guess he maybe has Narcisstic Personality Disorder like the hero he worships. He causes so much illwill on his own forum and he's been in trouble in the past for banning too many people so the forum went to pot.

Date of experience: May 10, 2021
Nigeria
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I noticed my wife keeps sneaking out, and she is mostly on her device always, so i hired hackssolutio.com to help me check out what she does on her device and they succefully helped me out thanks to them

Date of experience: July 14, 2020
Germany
1 review
5 helpful votes
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This Forum is good and bad at the same time. If you want to make money on hackforums with your services, it is a good website. You can get customers. The users there are mostly nice, but be aware of the scammers. They are everywhere.

The Staff is bad, very bad. Never ever talk to them, they will close your account in no time for no reason. Don't contact any staff member or the support.

Don't criticise anything. The guys who are running this. Omniscient, Jesse, webdev77 and the other staff members are stuck in kindergarden and don't have a clue how to manage this website. They are not nazi's but they ban everyone and everything, like some people in the police and the military. People who want to $#*! on others. Think about the George Floyd Situation, they are the police. The dumb bully you don't want in your life. Some days they are nice, some days they want to have a big d***. This is not a Defamation, I compared it to real world examples... Also many people on there are web criminals.

+ 1 Star for the users (except most of the staff).
+ 1 Star for the possibility to make money.

If you want to have fun, I think this is not really the place you want to be.
If you want to gain knowledge, this forum is perfect for you.

Before you join, read the rules and apply them. Don't ask questions everyone has asked before and be nice on there.

Date of experience: July 5, 2020
Egypt
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Compared to other sites that promote BH and illegal stuff. HF keep removing illegal and harmful content while educating users on the result of hacking.

Date of experience: September 29, 2019
Oregon
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Bandors says sign up now!
September 20, 2019

I started using this site in 2012. It helped me as a gateway into the world of hacking. Now I have a full time infosec job. This wouldn't have been possible if the allure of the forum and hacking didn't draw me in when I was younger. Ignore the trolls posting here, they just got banned for not following the rules. It's a great community, a ton of intel chatter on here!

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Date of experience: September 20, 2019
Serbia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I spent years on the forum and the experience has been nothing but amazing. Administrator is cool, community is great and even if you are not there to learn how to hack you will definitely learn something new.
There is no forum that managed to survive this long and not turn into a toxic cesspool. So congrats to Jesse Labrocca! Keep it up.

Date of experience: September 20, 2019
Egypt
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Joined the forum in 2017, didn't know much at first about the forum and was a bit confused. With time, i met a lot of people who are skilled in different fields from Programming to business and crypto. I learned a lot from the guides and tutorials posted for free on the forum.

Date of experience: September 20, 2019
West Virginia
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Great site good info
September 20, 2019

If youre looking for good info and a safe site with legit sellers, check it out. Not all "hacking" is bad... got a lot of great contacts form this site.

Date of experience: September 20, 2019
Illinois
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Owner doesn't know how to run a site, bans anyone because he can't take any form of criticism on his website. I don't recommend buying ranks or anything, it's a waste of money. Jesse (the owner) also cooperates with law enforcement. Will be a dead forum here in the future.

Date of experience: March 29, 2019
GB
1 review
11 helpful votes
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The admin "Omniscient" acts out of emotion and bans anyone who has a different opinion than his and regularly lashes out in fits of rage and "roasts" and bans his community members. To be honest, he has had a hard year, his site/main source of income in on a strong decline, he's trying to pump out update after update which aren't working. The site is a shambles and a shame to the real hacker community.

The hacking side of the forum is the LEAST active, this is more of a hangout for techies rather than a hacking forum.

A lot of uses on this site are young, inexperienced and immature and they make up a majority percentage of the community.

**Have a look at the images. He bans people for suggesting ideas and trying to help the site. This was a 7 year member which had all positive reputation and contributions.

The average posts have on the site have been dropping for years.
The suggestion.
Admin 'Omniscient' banning member for making a suggestion.
Randomly lashing out at a popular member, claiming that he is negative when infarct he isn't.
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Date of experience: September 4, 2018
Montenegro
1 review
1 helpful vote
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This forum is really great, i discovered it year ago and i met ton of great people. There are tons of sections for ppl with any interest! Also, there is a marketplace where u can earn some money or buy cool stuff!

Date of experience: August 15, 2018