Phishing in Yahoo! Geocities?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 11, 2006 @12:50PM 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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something to do by ianpatt · 2006-07-11 12:58 · Score: 3, Interesting

For those of you who are bored, you could try to get any of the addresses listed in the web form taken down. <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="http://www2.fiberbit.net/form/mailto.cgi" ENCTYPE="x-www-form-urlencoded"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="Mail_From" VALUE="Yahoo"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="Mail_To" VALUE="havinfunfun@gmail.com"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="Mail_Subject" VALUE="Yahoo id"> I'm sure google would have a fun time going after whoever referred havinfunfun@gmail.com.