/en/tags/purgatory/Recent content in Purgatory on DVLUPHugoen-USSun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000/en/blog/2026.03.22-csharp-scammer-trap/Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000/en/blog/2026.03.22-csharp-scammer-trap/<p>This is a reimagined version of Troy Hunt&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.troyhunt.com/building-password-purgatory-with-cloudflare-pages-and-workers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Password Purgatory</a> ; written as a dotnet app and automatically published to Azure. It is not a 1:1 recreation of Troy&rsquo;s, but maintains its spirit, see all the source code on GitHub at <a href="https://github.com/LanceMcCarthy/dotnet-password-purgatory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dotnet-password-purgatory</a> </p> <p>Just imagine, thousands of dollars is only a button click away, but your password keeps failing because of with the following rules:</p> <ol> <li><img src="../../../en/blog/2026.03.22-csharp-scammer-trap/184453467-4962c6c2-d955-4270-93d8-8ecb02c26fa8.png" alt="image"> <ul> <li>First entry form seems normal, some standard client-side validation to make sure I complete both fields.</li> </ul> </li> <li><img src="../../../en/blog/2026.03.22-csharp-scammer-trap/184453247-50578c2f-6fbb-4326-aff2-fb0bebbb2412.png" alt="image"> <ul> <li>Okay, so I didn&rsquo;t have a number in my password&hellip;</li> </ul> </li> <li><img src="../../../en/blog/2026.03.22-csharp-scammer-trap/184453267-eab6d8e0-945b-4cfb-b0b3-7c343711c0dc.png" alt="image"> <ul> <li>Whoops, maybe I shouldn&rsquo;t have just jammed a &ldquo;1&rdquo; on the end of the password&hellip;</li> </ul> </li> <li><img src="../../../en/blog/2026.03.22-csharp-scammer-trap/184453272-774a05a3-21ac-4aba-8754-6c4e8e66e3e3.png" alt="image"> <ul> <li>Ugh, okay, an upper-case character (starting to feel annoyed).</li> </ul> </li> <li><img src="../../../en/blog/2026.03.22-csharp-scammer-trap/184453276-464481ef-e3a7-4347-847f-8d45edfb1921.png" alt="image"> <ul> <li>This seems my own fault, nothing lets you use short password anymore.</li> </ul> </li> <li><img src="../../../en/blog/2026.03.22-csharp-scammer-trap/184453281-36502559-19f7-464d-8e8f-a4e57a87ed28.png" alt="image"> <ul> <li>Wait, what? This is starting to seem like I&rsquo;m being given the run-around&hellip; but adding &lsquo;dog&rsquo; to the end is easy enough&hellip;</li> </ul> </li> <li><img src="../../../en/blog/2026.03.22-csharp-scammer-trap/184453293-b1e46b2f-7f54-4868-b7c6-13ed8def1ac7.png" alt="image"> <ul> <li>Really, cat? Okay, three letters, lets add it and keep going because I want to see where this is going.</li> </ul> </li> <li><img src="../../../en/blog/2026.03.22-csharp-scammer-trap/184453301-b28f9136-a510-4c65-a186-7e4aac0f0ec4.png" alt="image"></li> </ol> <p>If they keep going&hellip;</p>