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Thread #79433   Message #1438650
Posted By: Wincing Devil
19-Mar-05 - 10:56 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Yahoo Phishing Alert (Identity theft)
Subject: BS: Yahoo Phishing Alert (Identity theft)
This is the REAL Vince Wilding, who knows that
Wincing Devil is an anagram of
Vince Wilding.

If you get a rather cryptic IM or email from me, telling you to go to a GeoCities page ending in "stvhng" DO NOT GO THERE! It's brings up a page that looks exactly like a Yahoo Sign-in page, but it takes your User_id and password and sends them, literally, to the Czech Republic. I consider myself rather e-adroit, but I fell for this one. I've sent notice to the folks at Yahoo, but when last I checked, the page was still there.
(Yes, I've already changed my password!)

What drew my suspision was that I entered my password, and the screen just reappeared. After the 2nd try, I did a "View Source" and saw that the form was being submitted to a server in the Czech Republic (www.mailform.cz)

Also, the following comment was in the source:

<!-this is a fake yahoo page and I take no resposibility for anything you enter in this form. This page is meant only for educational purpose. -->