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Phishing in Yahoo! Geocities?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-can-you-do dept.

Van Cutter Romney asks: "I've received a lot of phishing IMs on my Yahoo! Messenger from contacts whose accounts I guess have been hacked into. All the phishing messages lead to Geocities websites like this where the user is displayed a Yahoo! login page. For most people, the page looks legitimate and they enter their Yahoo! username and password (I was nearly fooled once). Since both the website (Geocities) and the messenger belong to Yahoo!, I'd like to know if they are doing to anything to counter these attacks."

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  1. Slashdot asks Van Cutter Romney by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did you report it to Yahoo!? Or just Slashdot?

  2. Thank you for calling the Mr. Obvious show! by numbski · · Score: 1, Funny

    and I quote:

    "NOTICE: We collect personal information on this site."

    Ya think?!?

    I never made the connection! Thanks Mr. Obvious!

    --

    Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).

  3. I knew there was something strange going on... by walnutmon · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I was asked for my username, password, and sexual orientation...

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    You take it, I don't want it...
    1. Re:I knew there was something strange going on... by StikyPad · · Score: 4, Funny

      When they came for the usernames,
      I remained silent;
      I was not a username.

      When they locked up the passwords,
      I remained silent;
      I was not a password.

      When they came for people with sexual orientation,
      I did not speak out;
      Because I have no idea what that means.

      When they came for me,
      there was no one left to speak out.

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      https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
  4. I logged in... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    and I didn't see anything.

    What gives?

  5. Someone's asleep at the wheel. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And yet the worst fishing site on geocities is still up-- since something like 1998? Someone's asleep at the wheel.

  6. I left him a message by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Username: ohgodatleastspendthe
    Password: $5foradomainname

    The destination page is a 404 (I don't think it works?).

  7. Excellent joke by technoextreme · · Score: 1, Funny
    And yet the worst fishing site on geocities is still up-- since something like 1998? Someone's asleep at the wheel.

    Ill be honest. I spent all that time to trying to figure out how the website was trying scam people out of money. Then I realized that it was nothing more that a pun. Great job and very subtle and it somehow being modded insightful made it even more funnyy.
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    Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
  8. Re:yes, we are by zen-theorist · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can also report phishing instances at http://report-abuse-phishing-yahoo.com/ our customer service site dedicated to fighting phishing attacks. ;-)