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{Sajith M}

April 28, 2006

Don't give out your passwords

To Those Concerned:
Ok Guys, maybe someone needs to tell you that you are not supposed to enter your email addresses and the corresponding passwords into strange and unknown sites. You know who you are and I don't want to take names...

Now My Extended Rant:
Ok guys, why (why why why) do you type your username and password for email services into strange looking pages on unknown sites?

Got this email with subject "Check it out" from one of my Yahoo! contacts inviting me to play online bingo. Pretty cool except that I cant understand why they need my AOL, Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo usernames and passwords. Hmm....

Further probing reveals this wonderful mode of operation:
You get an email that looks like it came from one of your friends, with the subject "Check it out". It contains a link to a web page that lets you find out who invited you. You then enter your first name, your email address at Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo!, or Gmail, and your password. Great! You just managed to provide your first name, your email address and your password. And from that, your contact list. So now your contacts all get "Check it out" emails from you, and the circle of life is complete.


The page in question is http://followhere01.com/go.asp
Go have a look, its perfectly safe as long as you do not enter your details.

Read this touching blog from a poor soul who managed to get scammed.

For the adventurous they also have a downloadable version of the game at http://www.playbingolive.org/download/PlayBingoLive_Install_v32.exe
Don't want to take a guess on what it could be. Some brave (or foolish) soul can install and let me know the results.

Spamhaus Project has this listed:
Reference SBL40491, SBL40492, SBL40493

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