• Hack Forums

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Hack Forums has a rating of 2.05 stars from 67 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Hack Forums ranks 31st among Forum sites.

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Top Positive Review

“I recommend when it comes to hacking”

Forp P.
8/6/22

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.

Top Critical Review

“Bad owner and staff who keep banning for false reasoning”

wez g.
2/19/24

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.

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Thumbnail of user wez
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 19th, 2024

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.

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Thumbnail of user richchoding
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 13th, 2024

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…..

Tip for consumers:
Please do not waste money on here

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I got scammed by them I can’t even show receipts they’ve deleted my account lol

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Thumbnail of user foreignj
1 review
1 helpful vote
May 8th, 2023

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.

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Thumbnail of user stevenf1191
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4 helpful votes
March 23rd, 2022

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.

Tip for consumers:
Do not put out any potentially personally identifiable information on this site. Do not use the same username you use in other communities, or share info about your school, location, etc.

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Thumbnail of user thedavincicode23
1 review
0 helpful votes
May 8th, 2023

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!

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A script that contained errors, and an exchange of crypto that cost me a $9 fee

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Thumbnail of user pizzb
1 review
2 helpful votes
April 15th, 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

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Thumbnail of user bertionh
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1 helpful vote
May 15th, 2023

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.

Tip for consumers:
Place is pants

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Uber

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Thumbnail of user mudboxguru
1 review
2 helpful votes
June 4th, 2023

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.

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Thumbnail of user forensicv
1 review
5 helpful votes
August 15th, 2021

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.

Tip for consumers:
Do not be fooled by the marketing.

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All a waste of time

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Thumbnail of user yarh
1 review
1 helpful vote
April 14th, 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 $#*!!

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Thumbnail of user danielj872
1 review
4 helpful votes
August 16th, 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.

Tip for consumers:
Make sure you study everything before ever thinking of buying anything on there

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Every product I tried was overhyped and did not deliver!

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Thumbnail of user dopamined
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 18th, 2022

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

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1 review
0 helpful votes
January 5th, 2022

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.

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Thumbnail of user mattf303
1 review
2 helpful votes
January 16th, 2022

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.

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Thumbnail of user liamo38
1 review
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October 25th, 2022

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.

Tip for consumers:
Avoid going first always

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Cracked program

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Thumbnail of user ryanr1080
1 review
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May 2nd, 2023

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.

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Thumbnail of user dustind176
1 review
1 helpful vote
August 1st, 2022

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.

Tip for consumers:
AVOID THIS WEBSITE

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Thumbnail of user simonm287
1 review
4 helpful votes
July 20th, 2021

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.

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Thumbnail of user metad4
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
June 16th, 2022

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.

Tip for consumers:
Hackermail

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Hacker forum

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Thumbnail of user forpp
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August 6th, 2022

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.

Tip for consumers:
They got too many request on a daily and you should be lucky if they reply within 24 hours.

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You can always request for a pulse work and make sure proof is provided before final payment because this was exactly what I did.

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Thumbnail of user forensicsm
1 review
0 helpful votes
October 14th, 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.

Tip for consumers:
Read the Help Docs

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All of em!

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Thumbnail of user ff37
1 review
12 helpful votes
March 29th, 2019

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.

Thumbnail of user kevinm3301
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June 22nd, 2022

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!

Tip for consumers:
I recommend doing your research before signing up on any website. In the future, protect yourself!

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I bought botnet installs. Some of the bots were installed, I did not receive the full 500GB as promised.

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Thumbnail of user davidb7113
1 review
2 helpful votes
November 16th, 2021

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.

Tip for consumers:
The chances of finding anything worthwhile on there now is MINIMAL to say the least

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Thumbnail of user ghostb1
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April 15th, 2022

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

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