Author Topic: WARNING Miss Ameena Mohammad. (Read 16785 times)

Quantos · « **Reply #15 on:** July 31, 2009, 01:39:39 PM »

Quote from: squall_01 on July 31, 2009, 01:37:19 PM

well all these are phising in some manner

Phishing is considerably different.

What these people want to do is send you a check or fake money order, have you put it into your account and then have you send them money without waiting for the check or money order to clear. It will bounce and you are out however much money you sent them.

squall_01 · « **Reply #16 on:** July 31, 2009, 01:44:41 PM »

whats the difference? How I know they have your check number but I dont know.....

Quantos · « **Reply #17 on:** July 31, 2009, 01:47:39 PM »

They usually aren't after information, what they are after is money.

They send you a check for a ten thousand dollars and tell you to send them one thousand of it immediately, you can keep the rest. The trouble comes when the check they sent you bounces and you are out a thousand dollars with no recourse.

camerongray · « **Reply #18 on:** July 31, 2009, 03:30:11 PM »

It is quite worrying that they are getting email addresses from Computer Hope.

Dairyman · « **Reply #19 on:** August 01, 2009, 12:28:27 AM »

I've won $2,000,000.00 on the UK Lottery and all I had to do was give my full name and street address to some stranger I've never met on the internet!!

Ivy · « **Reply #20 on:** August 01, 2009, 02:50:02 AM »

Hey Dairyman,

It's nice to see you again!

and yeah Ameena is not trustworthy.

Quantos · « **Reply #21 on:** August 01, 2009, 04:14:51 AM »

Quote from: camerongray on July 31, 2009, 03:30:11 PM

It is quite worrying that they are getting email addresses from Computer Hope.

Somehow I doubt that they are getting our email addresses from CH. I just can't see Nathan giving them away.

Dairyman · « **Reply #22 on:** August 01, 2009, 06:49:35 AM »

The only way I can see them getting e-mails from CH is when someone posts their e-mail in the topic or in some other place where you don't need to log in to see. But even those are shortly edited out by an admin/moderator after...

Oh, and thanks Ivy.

BC_Programmer · « **Reply #23 on:** August 01, 2009, 12:17:03 PM »

The E-mails are in the profile... same with MSN.

they are hidden by default now, though... I think...

Dairyman · « **Reply #24 on:** August 02, 2009, 03:08:02 AM »

I had just put my mouse over the MSN icon and I immediately noticed, you don't have to log in to see it.

Look at the status bar.

squall_01 · « **Reply #25 on:** August 02, 2009, 08:47:55 AM »

Quote from: Dairyman on August 01, 2009, 06:49:35 AM

The only way I can see them getting e-mails from CH is when someone posts their e-mail in the topic or in some other place where you don't need to log in to see. But even those are shortly edited out by an admin/moderator after...

Oh, and thanks Ivy.

probably why they have it.

Helpmeh · « **Reply #26 on:** August 02, 2009, 09:05:26 AM »

Harvester bots are pretty simple to understand. They could google search for pages containing @*.com (a google trick) and then add any email addresses it finds to a database for which could be for sale. Diving deep on black-market chats (legitimate ones that is) you may just find your email address for sale along with thousands of others, or even personal details you thought never could wind up on the internet. Advertising on the internet is a big buisness now.

BC_Programmer · « **Reply #27 on:** August 02, 2009, 09:08:34 AM »

google doesn't support wildcards... they are "spambots", not google searches.

Otherwise accurate I think.

Helpmeh · « **Reply #28 on:** August 02, 2009, 12:57:10 PM »

Quote from: BC_Programmer on August 02, 2009, 09:08:34 AM

google doesn't support wildcards... they are "spambots", not google searches.

Otherwise accurate I think.

I wasn't sure how they worked, but I heard that posting your email on the internet is asking for spam, so I just thought up a way they could get it.

squall_01 · « **Reply #29 on:** August 02, 2009, 01:52:30 PM »

Its especially bad when you got hacked. The best thing is changeing the password if possible.

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