Yahoo! Mail Login Trap Warning!

[FaeryTaleAdventurer]

Hello NewGrounders, and those that think I'm a 13 year old girl

(November 13th, Facebook).

I'm hear to warn all the other potential "13 year old girls", about yet another trap I NEARLY fell for today. Apparently we have tricksters posing as Yahoo! personnel (I kid you not, the name of the sender was "Yahoo! Mail") claiming that we need to secure some lost mail because they recently upgraded their servers.

Well, I guess I saw no harm in it at the time, and wanted to go ahead and see what 2 e-mails were put on hold, because of an event like this. I click the link, and...what the shell??

I'm at the Yahoo! login page!? Not quite, if time is taken to look up in the URL, notice that we're no longer on the Yahoo! website!

Instead we're at what appears to be a site posing as a "proxy" to Yahoo! (or at least a page of it).

The URL may have a different name from recipient to recipient; in my case it was a place known as "www.zurnaci.info". Don't see the name Yahoo in that at all. The website alone doesn't appear dangerous, but the fact that they have a page that is a 100% replica of Yahoo!'s sign-in page, is a big RED FLAG (given that you add "/config/login_verify2.php" to the aforementioned URL).

I don't trust it with a grain of salt, and I advise others NOT TO risk an account hack by entering information into Zurnaci's Yahoo! clone. You should not have to login again, because you already had to be logged in to even SEE that message!

That is all. Below is the message I recieved.

[BravePanda]

I hope thousands of 13 year olds get hacked.

[TheMajormel]

Reason why I made a gmail.

[SpaceWhale]

how about just don't be stupid about emails
how 'bout that

[AutumnalEquinox]

I think the big RED FLAG for this is the fact that the person sending these e-mails can't even spell "apologize" right...

[Light]

Why would anyone want to hack a Yahoo! e-mail account?

[Razz]

Haha, you use AT&T

[MrMeD]

I'll remember that it's a fake next time I'm retarded.

[wildfire4461]

I'm a member of several Yahoo groups, and the last couple of months i've seen a lot of people's email accounts get hacked and start sending spam mails to the groups and everybody else. I wonder if this is how it's happening?

[Saren]

If the people who get hacked are lucky the worst that will happen is your account will get sold to spambots and third parties and they will send spam messages to all your contacts

[Phantox]

>2011
>using yahoo

LAWL

[someone-else]

Clicking on unverified links is like the top DO NOT's on the Internet.

[UncleABCD]

At 11/15/11 10:38 PM, StonedGrenade wrote: I think the big RED FLAG for this is the fact that the person sending these e-mails can't even spell "apologize" right...

You can spell it with an s if you want. Both are correct spellings, but it depends on which side of the pond you're on, Americans spell it with a z while in the UK it's spelled with an s. That goes for any of the other -ize words, in the UK they're -ise.

[kazumazkan]

well dont click on links that look suspicious

[Manly-Chicken]

Yahoo sucks.

[MaartenC]

At 11/15/11 10:36 PM, majormelthesackboy wrote: Reason why I made a gmail.

Reason why I made a hotmail.

[Mike19o0]

Thanks for the heads up, but I barely even check my Yahoo mail lol.