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TrustScore 2.5 out of 5

2.5

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

This is an online forum where you can discuss various topics. Some users sell services/products in the marketplace section. There are a few very SMART people who take advantage of other very SMART... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Guys dont buy money making methods, its a scam and admins of HF are corrupt and will ban anyone complaining, they get their part too from sales Edit: yes i did what you said few years ago but i d... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I remember joining this forum around 2014, back when I was a freshman in high school. I was only there to get something quickly than never return but after some browsing I became hooked. I became invo... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This forum allows scammers to stay unpunished and to continue scamming their users. I got scammed by premium member from there and no one of their staff or admins cares for that. And after making co... See more

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Hack Forums is your gateway into the world of hacking and cybersecurity. With tutorials, helpful members, and millions of posts you too can learn skills.


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TrustScore 2.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I got scammed today in $70

I got scammed today in $70, unfortunately, only later I found out this whole forum is rigged with scammers, including its owner. After I got scammed, I replied to the scammer thread, but my message was deleted and my username was blocked. I insist everyone avoid this forum, it's now just a place of scammers and newbies.

17 May 2024
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Reply from Hack Forums

When you join we clearly warn new members to not send money else you will get scammed. Did you think we were kidding?

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This is a site full om scammers

This is a site full om scammers. If "admin" is notified, then your account is closed down. The owner of the website is a lousy liar and the most lousy person i have ever come in contact with

UPDATE:
I don't care what message I got as long you are protecting scammers on your website and shut down accounts that mention this problem.......your exact word was. You don't want to take this BS and accusations from my side and shut down my account afterwards. You are the most lousy and most lousy excuse for a human being that I have ever come across

2 April 2024
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Reply from Hack Forums

Site policy is simple. All deal disputes between members must use the HF Contract system. We warn new members they are targets of scammers and to not send money without knowing the risks. Contracts represent a 98% success rate after 155,000 Completed Contracts between members. Sorry you weren't smart enough to understand how HF works or the PM we sent you when you joined.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

FUK This site

FUK This site, moderators are dumb, admins are even more dumbs, this site shoud be shoutdown !!!

27 December 2022
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Reply from Hack Forums

Yes, we're so dumb we need to be shoutdown.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Hackforums is full of scammers

This forum is full of scammers. Even the customer service and the administrators are scammers. I bought a course for 39$ and received nothing. Contacted support and the seller. Next day they locked my account saying that I violated the rules of the forum. DO NOT USE IT They will rip your money off!

20 December 2022
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Loves internet censorship, aka. geoblocking.

Basically a person who's just trying to obtain a modded Intel HD 2000 driver to fix OpenGL errors for my friend's laptop. The specific driver all linked to this website for it's download link, whenever article that was, third-party or not, the "real" download link have never been shown outside this website.
Main problem is this website is putting access denied errors on me and after many research came to conclusion that the owner & admins of this website is not only treating bad to many of it's members, they also always block many countries & ISPs just because of a specific botnet DDOSing this website. No further thinking at all. Like if someone like only a micro of 300 millions of people is attacking your website, you decided to block the innocent 300 millions too? Just because they live in the same country as the attacker while most people doesn't even know how to attack websites? Terrible.

Good thing I found the alternative Intel HD 2000 driver other than the version from this website. Finally my friend's laptop can do OpenGL without major issues anymore.

Note: This website also blocked VPNs, not even my VPN (starts from word N) can bypass the block.

28 September 2022
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Reply from Hack Forums

We have actually changed the blocks of VPNs to mainly be Challenges. A few problem datacenters are indeed blocked though as well as some countries like China, Russia, and Brazil.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

AVOID THIS WEBSITE AT ALL COST

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. The members make the website, not the admins so go to another site, this one is full of scams

2 August 2022
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All deal disputes between members must use the HF Contract system. We warn new members they are targets of scammers and to not send money without knowing the risks. Contracts represent a 98% success rate after 155,000 Completed Contracts between members.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great site for tech nerds

Great site, been a member since 2009.

15 April 2022
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Reply from Hack Forums

Thanks for being part of HF for so long. HF currently has over 700 members with 10+ years of activity.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This site admin or team scam i got 4…

This site admin or team scam i got 4 time scam on this site they every week submit new method people feel its buy user but not this team have already old many accounts by self on this site peoples feel they make money with that but when they try its fail to make money or try report they block your account if you try to make a new account or report they block the same account again this happens with me more then 6 times I already report to FBI this website so care ful with this site

6 January 2022
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I was selling crypter on hackforums and…

I was selling crypter on hackforums and I never recommend that my account be banned for complaining to someone. I was a good salesman and my account was banned. You can control me, no reason. My Hackforums account is called Cyber Crypter

4 August 2021
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We closed your account because we successfully linked it to previously closed scamming accounts.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Men in Denmark don't care about your nonsense. Omni is 55 year old baby.

At 55 years old Omni is still very immature. Those of us in Denmark do not care about your garbage.

He spends all his time mindlessly lapping up every bit of propaganda that the Trump campaign put online for him to gobble up like the little sheep he is and he believes every ridiculous lie he sees on a YouTube video. Then he bans sane "clients" of his who post anything real. I was buying ads and awards before I found out what a mental case he is and I asked him for a vacation ban two weeks ago.

Omni has the same massive ego that Trump has just over owning a dumb little message board. You'd think he'd be trying to earn the most money for his kids but instead he throws money down the toilet so he can be a baby and believes every ridiculous conspiracy theory he rwatches on a video.

OMni hates the USA and hates free speech. He believes Trump that the USA sucks and that he sholuldn't respect the US intelligence agencies, it's FBI or a it's Constitution because Trump told him to hate it all .

OK you were brainwashed to hate your own country for the ego of a psychopathic billionaire but your members from Denmark are sick of hearing about it.

23 July 2021
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This is awesome. Thanks.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Hackforums is full of scam - not recommended

Hackforums is full of scam - not recommended

Better buy the services and products at legit platforms.

4 May 2021
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Reply from Hack Forums

It's true, we have scammers who target new members. That's why when you join, we send you a PM firmly telling you not to do any deals because you will get scammed. HF is free to join. You can use the site to learn many things, all for free. Choosing to send money to scammers is your choice and we don't advise you do that.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Bad management who doesn't know how to…

Bad management who doesn't know how to run a community.
Only reason the community is running is because the users of the site itself earn money.

The management disagree with most idea's in an immature way. If they don't like your suggestion this guy calling himself Omniscient bans you right away.

Omniscient feels like he's the god of the internet. Thinks his tweets matter, thinks his opinion are no opinions but facts, thinks users like him.. meanwhile they're talking nice to him to keep their own a*ses safe.

The owner is a selfish old guy who basically is running around the platform ruining all good. Acts like he's involved in the community, meanwhile the banhammer always has the last word.

Even in political discussions you can't tell him your opinion or he'll ban you.
You can't call that a community. That's like a site ran by a 13 years old from mom's basement who sees every argument as a bully.

28 March 2021
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Reply from Hack Forums

I'm not the god of the internet, just my own forum. You don't have to be a part of the site if how I run it isn't to your liking. You can click the "log out" button and not return. But if you're gonna participate then realize that the site is indeed my own and not yours. I will run it how I see fit.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Bad management

Site is managed by immature people who ban without any explanation. Don't bother wasting your time there. They protect their scammers well.

Edit: Took them only 4 years to reply, only to prove my point.

24 August 2020
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Reply from Hack Forums

Says you. Likely you're a scammer or spammer because that's who gets their accounts closed the most. All bans have a reason, you don't have to agree or like the reason.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Full of Scammers!

This forum allows scammers to stay unpunished and to continue scamming their users. I got scammed by premium member from there and no one of their staff or admins cares for that. And after making complain topic for it, they even made fun of me like it's my fault.
This site was good at their beginning, a decade ago. Now it's toxic like hell, with full of criminals, scammers and negative energy.
Their admins and staff team behave like sadistic sociopaths, without any kindness, empathy or proper human behavior.

15 June 2020
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Reply from Hack Forums

We have very clear policies about deals and how to dispute them on our site. We close scammers all the time. Best of luck to you.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Scammers.

Scammers.

Hackforums is a low-quality forum that eats his customers for breakfast. What does this mean? It means they don’t care if you are a good customer or not if you are selling a malware or if you sell something illegal. A Forum full with scammers, A forum that even the admin and the moderators make deals with scammers to win money!

There was a seller with the name nCuX0 a big scammer that was selling a package (garbage)with tutorials, tools, botnets, and all those tools have no names. If you ask him what are you selling there he will never answer to you.

24 May 2020
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A forum that actually changed my life for the better.

I remember joining this forum around 2014, back when I was a freshman in high school. I was only there to get something quickly than never return but after some browsing I became hooked. I became involved with the community, made many lifetime friends, picked up so many skillsets and truly became someone who I could never imagine myself becoming. Here I am 5 years later, still hooked and sometimes wishing that I had found this place even sooner.

15 October 2019
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Joined HackForums To Learn How To Code

I joined HF 10 years when I first began my foray into the tech world. I started on the forum by learning programming (started with Python). 10 years of close community support and I am now working full time as a software developer. I am able to talk to others to help improve my own skills. I'm able to hire quality services for graphics and design. I'm able to participate in a community of like-minded individuals. HF has been a great site for me the past 10 years and I hope to contribute for many more years to come.

9 October 2019
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I've been a member of the forum for 5…

I've been a member of the forum for 5 years now. It's one of the greatest communities i've been a part of. Even if you are not looking to learn how to hack you will at least learn how to protect yourself from that.

Come for hacking, stay for the community.

9 October 2019
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