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Albinoboy
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15 Sep 2010, 12:49 pm

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is this you?? hxxp://hola-images.net/photos.php?=nath ... mail.co.uk

hola-images.net something to do with images? Oh no, its under construction (Point 1)

photos.php, if its under construction, then it wouldn't have a photos.php (or not a open to public one) (Point 2)

?=nathan.price(...) you would not have an email address for a picture, it would be a unique identifier (like YouTube) (Point 3)

Firefox would open image files (usually) rather than asking me to download one (Point 4)

An image file does not end in .exe (Point 5, & 6 as this is worth two :P)

photos.php also sends me to an .exe file (Point 7)

So off goes I to the Firefox alert button
Google wrote:
Report Sent

Thanks for sending a report to Google. Now that you've done your good deed for the day, feel free to:

1. Take a second to rejoice merrily for doing your part in making the web a safer place.
2. Call/email/write to a neighbor/friend/relative and tell them what phishing is and how they can protect themselves.
3. Check out other extensions for Firefox from Google.
4. Spread the love by joining the Spread Firefox community.


haha, I'll do #1, #2 is bashed into peoples brains anyway, #3 & #4 I have don't want to do



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15 Sep 2010, 1:31 pm

I got these before via MSN, I pity the fool who actually downloads them.



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15 Sep 2010, 3:31 pm

Yeah, it was via MSN.
MSN, Moronic Spammer Network.



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15 Sep 2010, 9:13 pm

Very common if you have idiots on your list


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16 Sep 2010, 11:02 am

Well, its more the fact that some of my friends are not the brightest tools in the box.
The person who sent me this is a good friend, so I guess her password was brute forced.
And yes, she isn't particularly bright, but she is funny.



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16 Sep 2010, 11:08 am

Albinoboy wrote:
Well, its more the fact that some of my friends are not the brightest tools in the box.
The person who sent me this is a good friend, so I guess her password was brute forced.
And yes, she isn't particularly bright, but she is funny.


More likely she got it via the same message sent to her form one of her friends.