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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. 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.