Important note for ALL Yahoo users

Here's a little bit of very noteworthy
information,from the quite reliable source of
"ebronson", every Yahoo-user should take notice of,
which I found in Rhonda Rydell's Yahoo Group, that has
a few regulars around that frequently pass on
interesting information, as well as some quite
humorous posters.

Anyway, this message reads:

"I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine
who happens to be a very good hacker. We were
discussing the recent rash of groups being closed on
yahoo after the group owner's id were hacked and I got
some very interesting information I wish to pass on.

The hackers who delight in hijacking yahoo ids and
passwords, rely
mainly on an event that yahoo uses regularly to
convince you to give up your user id and password.
They utilize a fake yahoo signing page to get your
information. We all on occasion, check
out the profiles of various people we come across
while in either
chat, pm or groups. Many of us automatically reject
profiles that are blank or have obvious links to spam
or porn.

However, we will click on links found in interesting
profiles in
order to find out more about the person. So we click
on one of the
links on the profile and we are now faced with a
Yahoo Sign-in page. We automatically assume that it's
just yahoo and we go ahead and enter our user name and
password and we click Sign-in...sending our user id
and password to a phisher.

The following profile link has a link that will take
you to a
phishing page. The links is the second url listed.


http://profiles.yahoo.com/tanya_worships_black_rulers
(yahoo profile)


http://wwwgeocities.com/tanya_worships_black_rulers/
(fake yahoo Sign in page)

Notice that this is a geocities .com page and not a
Yahoo page. Only a link to a yahoo page, will bring up
a Yahoo Sign-in page which is now very different in
format.. Everytime you click on a link to a page
outside yahoo and you get a Yahoo sign in page,
check the address bar to see what is written there.
This is why many Group Owners as well as the ordinary
yahoo users are having their yahoo accounts closed.
Yahoo will not admit the problem, but simply state
that there was a TOS violation that caused the
deactivation of the account. They are correct,
however, its not the owner of the account who violated
the TOS..it's the hackers who have violated the TOS.

Please forward this information everyone you know
with a yahoo
account."


Doug LeBlanc
Canadian Progressive Music Society
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/canprog/
A heart that takes is soon to break
A heart that is giving will give forever
Dave Lambert of the Strawbs



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