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Skype has some Auto-Bots and Friendjungle.com

PaulMay 16, 2009

I was on Skype today and got an instant message from some girl:

The Instant message goes like this:

hello there! I was checking people near me and i came across your page, and you seemed interesting.. 😉

Mary Fowler says: Im not crazy about Skype though … want to check out my picture and profile ?

use this link: http://www.matchshake.com/?id=4004&profile=rockergrl82

you just sign in (it’s free) to get to me, my username’s rockergrl82.

[ad]It looks like this is an Bot to help fool you into thinking it is a real person. The link they give me is a redirect link that lands me on “Friendjungle.com”. I am sure no matter what you answer with the question it asks that it will still send you a link. You can however tell Skype to only allow chat from people on your contact list but that is totally up to you. There is a story from the Rip-off Report about Friendjungle.com, so it looks like they went from text messaging to Skype chat. According to Yahoo Answers, this is more or less a way for them to get money from you. You sign up and before you realize it they are charging your card, so it looks really shady. Although, To Friendjungle credit, they do have a scam section to help you report these types of incidents. I don’t know if this works well or not but you can at least try.

There are some good comments about this Friendjungle on other sites that really make me wonder if they just don’t want your money. If you get this type of message from someone, either through SMS or Skype, I’d just go along with my life and not register there are more better places to go to find your true love.

When not to post #twitterpornnames

PaulMay 12, 2009

I’ve heard others call this a scam:

[ad]Now Although I know PCworld has made everyone paranoid that this is a scam. I want to remind people that it was probably just a for fun. According to Graham Cluely’s blog, He points out why you shouldn’t tell people the important information.

I see no evidence this was done to gather your information but Pcworld has sent out the warnings and made people think this was a scam, or a Phishing attack. Although this could be used to get the information needed for your Gmail or other accounts.

I do recommend deleting those tweets and reminding people that you are the only ones that can prevent identity theft. Trend Micro talks about this very detail about the subject but again they don’t think this was conceived as a phishing attempt. I’ll let you decide but remember tweeting that it is a scam will only keep it on the trends, your best advice is just go on with your life and tell everyone to delete that sensitive information.

New address cnuncn.com, old Yahoo email

PaulMay 1, 2009

In my Previous Email about yahoo [intlink id=”3330″ type=”post”]email accounts being use[/intlink]d and then their contacts being deleted. I recently came across another post about this email but with a new address so I go to the site and see and It looks like the old one:

It looks like this site was registered on 9-27-08 and Looks like the other site nekcn.com:

[ad#cricket-right-ez]As you can see this looks like the other one, both of them are Chinese websites. I have heard from one or two users that this is a Scam website trying to scam you out of money. I am also sure the scammer just started doing this with the emails due to my previous post about this site. I wouldn’t purchase anything on these sites. I have created a Forum area to discuss Email scams like this one and warn others of new scams like this one. I hope you warn the person who sends this out that they have been compromised and should reset there password. This is one way to gain control over your account.

Remember there are sites out on the net that [intlink id=”3407″ type=”post”]would like to get your email account or your Facebook account [/intlink]and spam people. The reason being is that contacts people have with each other are more likely to get through the spam filters to the person. The Email reads:

Dear friend:

What are u doing these days?I am going to recommend a Eshop to you.Yesterday I found a web of a large trading company from China,which is an agent of all the well-known digital product factories,and facing to both wholesalers,retailsalers,and personal customer all over the world. They export all kinds of digital products and offer really competitive and reasonable price and high quality goods for their clients,so i think you will make a big profit if you did business with them.And they promise they will provide the best after-sales-service.If you are interested to do business with them,in my opinion, you can make a trial order to test that.

Their Web address: www.cnuncn.com or www.nekcn.com

[Via Yahoo Answers]

In case someone has a question about this, please feel free to post to Forums and someone will answer it. It is a good idea to install [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]Free Anti-virus and Firewall[/intlink] software to better protect your system.

A look behind SmartEcard.COM

PaulApril 20, 2009

I saw that Graham Cluely Blog talked about the front page and How this ws used on twitter but Most people who did the IQ test still need to fix your Cell Phone account:

If people didn’t scroll down in the other windows you would of never know there was something you need to watch for. After you do the 5 questions , you will see this:

then you enter that information and hit continue and it comes up with this:

As you can see the people who put in there Cellular Numbers will want to send an text Message with STOP to short code 86455. It looks like this is a Subscription service where you pay a monthly for something like this and that you don’t need it. I would guess somehow someone is getting money for each and every person who signs up. This is most likely a Commission based and the person tried to get people to sign up through the website by saying you have a Ecard or some other thing.

TINYURL being used by scammers and hackers — How to prevent it!!

PaulFebruary 25, 2009

With Phishing attempts going on with the TINYURL redirect website, I thought I would show you how you could prevent from going to a site you don’t want. Tinyurl.com has a great little feature, although it is a feature based on your cookies. It however will help prevent you from going to a site that you don’t know anything that about. It’s called the Preview Feature, and is available to any user who wants to use it.

As you can see if you enable it and you go to a click on a tinyurl, you will see this:

http://tinyurl.com/6t7ukk

[ad#ad2-right]As you can see, if you click any TINYURL links you will automatically be told where that link is redirecting you to. This however only works with there being a cookie left behind in your system to let tell Tinyurl that is has to show the link first. So if you clean your cookies out from time to time, you will need to enable it every time after you clean the browser cookies. This will help prevent you from being phished because you will be able to tell if it is the right site in the first place. If not then you don’t have to visit that site. This should be enabled on all Short URL Sites, I hope they make it a mandatory for any site that redirects. This would help stop phishing and scammers because they can’t hide behind unknown url. Only time will tell though, these sites are always going to have problems but this would solve so many problems.