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

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

    --
    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.

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

    What gives?

  4. 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.

  5. 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?).

  6. 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. ;-)