GOT HACKED ON YAHOO AND FACEBOOK

Describe "hacked." What happened?

Friends starting getting emails from me stating that I was in Madrid, Spain, that I had been robbed and needed $1,500 to get home.

An email was sent to an alternate email plan I have so I saw the letter. I answered it saying I would send me the money. So I am supposed to get info as to how and where to send the money.

What would you do? It was my fault, I authorized something that I thought was legit Yahoo. It wasn't.

Sg

What do you mean by 'hacked'?

Oh yahoo, which is my e-mail server, a couple of months ago a bunch of my friends wrote to tell me that it looked like I'd gotten a new job selling Viagra for a Canadian pharmaceutical company. My niece told me to change my password - I did - and that seemed to be that.

On facebook, just the other day, I came home and there was this picture of a girl, highschool age, and it said, 'Ooh - she is sooo busted!' - read why this young girl was expelled from school.
It was from a friend that I thought, 'I can't really picture her saying, 'Ooh - she is sooo busted' - but being curious - I clicked anyway - just to see it, and apparently it went to all my friends...who told me it was a bug and I should change my password.
I haven't yet because then my son told me that changing my password might be part of the plot...I don't understand any of it- so I didn't do anything but tell all my friends to delete it and not click on it, and so far, so good.

Are those examples of hacking?

They changed my username and password and sent out letters to folks on my Yahoo contacts.

Here's the article from Snopes about this scam.

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/distress/family.asp

Here's another article about it with instructions and a link to report it.

http://www.safeinternet.org/blog/scams-swindle-consumers-out-thousands-dollars

Excerpt:

Any time you receive a communication with a tale of woe and request for help, slow down. Verify the information before sending any money. Call their phone number(s) to see if your friend is indeed traveling - most likely they aren't. Ask yourself whether this person would be likely to turn to you for help, or whether they would turn to someone else. Look up the phone numbers for the hospital, hotel, etc. to verify the incident (Do not use phone numbers that are included in the email, or told to you by 'the Samaritan' these are likely to be the scammer's numbers). Taking 15 minutes, or even a couple of hours, to check the facts is your best defense against the "I need help" scams.

If you have fallen victim of this type of scam, or to report any cybercrime, you can contact the www.IC3.gov website so they can input the information into their complaint database and find links to other complaints for potential referral to the appropriate law enforcement agency.

a Canadian friend sent me this.



Facebook is a data mining and identity-theft site for those with enough money to purchase the aps that Facebook sells for searching their site (including all the supposed secure info) or to purchase the data directly from them. Facebook also tracks users to their so-called "partner" sites and vacuums up data from those sites as well, and makes it all available to big-money purchasers of such info.

And, though not directly their fault, Facebook is also a gold mine (so to speak) for professional burglars, who scour the site looking for those who've indicated they're not going to be home for certain specified periods of time.

There is plenty of solid information on this topic, available on the web, for anyone who may be reluctant to accept these assertions. Much of it is on the sites maintained by computer, software, and online security companies and/or magazines, so that's a good place to start looking, if you'd like to know more about it.
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Facebook is banned in my house. As far as I'm concerned it breeds fat, lazy and stupid people. I think south park covered it best. My teenage daughter hates me for it but such is life.

I'm doing a degree at the moment and it is so frustrating going into the computer lab to find 90% of computers are being used by people on facebook, telling each other what they did last night, even though they were all together.

Facebook is a sad indictment of our 'culture' in these sorry times.

I sometimes find myself wishing for the mad max scenario of total collapse if only to wake up some of these idiots. but then most people think I'm an idiot anyway, (*I don't use facebook)
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Thank you Butrflynet I am going to report them to the government agency!

Which one ?

IC3-gov. Do you know of some others?

Sg is off to beddy bye have market in the am to sell my collectibles and jewels.

No

This continues to be an ongoing and thusfar not resolved situation. A friend in Vermon sent $500 to Madrid and it was picked up at Western Union in Madrid.

Evidently the hackers have installed a very sophisticated piece of robotics on my account. Every key stroke I make is noted, I changed accounts, I was followed and the new account compromised or screwed up. All my banking is still in Boston, and the bank (credit union) I use has never had this happen to one of their clients and are in a state of confusion as what to do.

I called my niece in Texas who is on my Facebook, she is contacting all my friends on Facebook to unfriend me. I cannot get through to Facebook to close the account. I just don't want any more friends burned. These characters even changed my password on Facebook and I cannot access it.

Does anyone know how to get through to damn Facebook?

I am foaming at the mouth at the moment.

Life on life's terms is a bitch sometimes.

ARE YOU READY FOR THIS?

A young computer nurd friend of mine came over and before he left, he left the Madrid hacker in total shambles. He wrote a program which went in and returned the virus, worm, whatever to the sender. Three seconds into the hacker's equipment the hacker's hard drive was totally destroyed. I watched the whole thing on the screen. I dont know how much equipment was envolved, or how sophisticated his systems were, but they are no more .

The Rains in Spain are mostly falling on the spammer today.

Whew.

all this time I thought you had left.

now I realize you just changed your name, and forgot to tell me.

lemme guess, you are PoetbyMidnight...

are you some kinda attempted suicide spam bomber?