Yup, I was a victim of this YM phishing because of my dumb user error. Here's my story...
I wasn't fully awake to notice the URLs because it was the middle of the night. I got a YM IM in my Trillian from someone whom I haven't heard from for months. It went like this (note: actual account/user names changed from their original ones):
Session Start (ant:onion): Sat Jan 07 02:28:11 2006 [02:28] onion: Hey check out this website for some photos of me tell me what you think http://www.myphoto-album.tk/ [02:28] *** Auto-response sent to onion: ant isn't around here at the moment. [03:03] ant: I don't see anything even after logging in. [03:03] *** You are currently disconnected. Messages will not be received. [03:03] *** You are currently disconnected. Messages will not be received. [03:04] *** You are currently disconnected. Messages will not be received. [03:04] *** You are currently disconnected. Messages will not be received. Session Close (onion): Sat Jan 07 03:07:05 2006
I thought YM servers went down or something. In the day time, it hit me. I got phished! My password was already changed (duh!).
I quickly e-mailed Yahoo! A few days later, Y! asked for my information that I used to sign up. The problem here was I never used real personal datas in online accounts like Y! nor do I remember them. Plus, I signed up for my account like a decade ago.
My buddies on the contact list (had a local back up copy so easy to contact) all got this phish. I already warned them not to reply. But some of them were too late and actually fell for it.
I continued to e-mail Y!, but got no where. I eventually gave up and them told to shut down my account. However, Y! still refused. Of course, my buddies saw the fake me and phish IMs. Eventually, I told all my buddies fill out the online abuse forms to Yahoo!'s abuse department to shut down my account for phishing. Then, I never heard of more online sightings and phishings from my account.
Here were two Web sites that were for collecting passwords (also contacted the hosts about my incidents). These fake Y!'s GeoCities were gone within days: www.my-photo-albums.tk www.myphoto-album.tk
I was glad I didn't use Yahoo account other than IM and launch.com. I hate these bundled services within a single account like Passport.:(
As you can see social engineering at its best even on people who knows computers. I fell for it.:(
Just in case NASA changes the links/Web page. Right Forward SRB Camera. This one shows the space shuttle launching from the launch pad, to space, and then crashing into the water (not going underwater like the other video).
Amazing videos! If there are any more, then please share!:)
I am mostly deaf due to lack of ear canals, so I have to wear an analog bone conduction hearing aid (Oticon 380p). I wonder if this technology is the same as used in cellphone as noted in the story. It's awful and confusing when I have background sound, noises, etc. and trying to hear. Hence, why I request a quiet area/place to hear. The hearing aid cannot distinguish which sound/voices I want to hear. It's basically like a microphone and amplified all audio it can detect up.
Yes, that is because the administrator screwed up and has been busy to fix it. I can't complain because the host and service are free. See Mousey's post about it.
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minus_273: Ahh thanks. That explains why I never heard of it since I was into computer games for decades. Heh. :)
Thanks for the answer even though I don't remember Joshua used in the movie, but then it has been years (only saw it once) since I saw it. :)
One more thing... Y! did recover my buddies' accounts that remembered their sign up information.
Just tell gmail's abuse department about this article and phishing. :)
Yup, I was a victim of this YM phishing because of my dumb user error. Here's my story...
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I wasn't fully awake to notice the URLs because it was the middle of the night. I got a YM IM in my Trillian from someone whom I haven't heard from for months. It went like this (note: actual account/user names changed from their original ones):
Session Start (ant:onion): Sat Jan 07 02:28:11 2006
[02:28] onion: Hey check out this website for some photos of me tell me what you think http://www.myphoto-album.tk/
[02:28] *** Auto-response sent to onion: ant isn't around here at the moment.
[03:03] ant: I don't see anything even after logging in.
[03:03] *** You are currently disconnected. Messages will not be received.
[03:03] *** You are currently disconnected. Messages will not be received.
[03:04] *** You are currently disconnected. Messages will not be received.
[03:04] *** You are currently disconnected. Messages will not be received.
Session Close (onion): Sat Jan 07 03:07:05 2006
I thought YM servers went down or something. In the day time, it hit me. I got phished! My password was already changed (duh!).
I quickly e-mailed Yahoo! A few days later, Y! asked for my information that I used to sign up. The problem here was I never used real personal datas in online accounts like Y! nor do I remember them. Plus, I signed up for my account like a decade ago.
My buddies on the contact list (had a local back up copy so easy to contact) all got this phish. I already warned them not to reply. But some of them were too late and actually fell for it.
I continued to e-mail Y!, but got no where. I eventually gave up and them told to shut down my account. However, Y! still refused. Of course, my buddies saw the fake me and phish IMs. Eventually, I told all my buddies fill out the online abuse forms to Yahoo!'s abuse department to shut down my account for phishing. Then, I never heard of more online sightings and phishings from my account.
Here were two Web sites that were for collecting passwords (also contacted the hosts about my incidents). These fake Y!'s GeoCities were gone within days:
www.my-photo-albums.tk
www.myphoto-album.tk
I was glad I didn't use Yahoo account other than IM and launch.com. I hate these bundled services within a single account like Passport.
As you can see social engineering at its best even on people who knows computers. I fell for it.
Maybe bit rates are too high? I have seen that happened before. :(
ACCESS DENIED.
EXECUTE? [Y/N] Y
Odd, I have never heard of this sim game. Did anyone else?
No more free cup holders for me. :(
Actually, I don't think you need to post them if they are same as this one.
Thank you for these downloadable video files! :)
Did you encode/convert to MOV files? If so, then you should share them for those who hate streaming videos. :)
jeffmeden: I didn't see a booster. I just saw a lot of strings, chute, etc. floating.
Just in case NASA changes the links/Web page. Right Forward SRB Camera. This one shows the space shuttle launching from the launch pad, to space, and then crashing into the water (not going underwater like the other video).
:)
Amazing videos! If there are any more, then please share!
Interesting. I wonder where the booster and its camera(s) crashed into?
Did NASA recover the camera for analysis? I was amazed by this silent footage even though it was long.
How do you watch YouTube, Google Video, HomeStarRunner, etc. then? I can't live without those. :)
I am mostly deaf due to lack of ear canals, so I have to wear an analog bone conduction hearing aid (Oticon 380p). I wonder if this technology is the same as used in cellphone as noted in the story. It's awful and confusing when I have background sound, noises, etc. and trying to hear. Hence, why I request a quiet area/place to hear. The hearing aid cannot distinguish which sound/voices I want to hear. It's basically like a microphone and amplified all audio it can detect up.
No, but I have been to one recently (not as a student). Sorry for the confusion. :)
What if the students' parent(s) want them to take their cellphones to schools? I know mine does.
Watch it on YouTube. Seen on VideoSift.
Yes, that is because the administrator screwed up and has been busy to fix it. I can't complain because the host and service are free. See Mousey's post about it.
Heh, no problems. :)
Atari 2600, not 2400. I think you're confused with the dial-up modem speed's number. :)