Caution: Fake Blogger.com

July 30, 2003 11:44 AM

Don't be fooled by fake blogger.com. Crackers are after your Blogger password.
posted by hoder (15 comments total)

and one would end up there because.....? hehehe... they're obviously not that smart, but then again, i'm sure 500 people have fallen for it today.
posted by djspicerack at 11:53 AM on July 30, 2003

I just signed up! What a great service. Thanks for the link!
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 11:58 AM on July 30, 2003

Gasp! they're out to steal my audience of up to three people!
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 11:58 AM on July 30, 2003

Well, if you pay for blogger pro, wouldn't your password to blogger eventually link up to a credit card number in the interface somewhere?

This looks like an amateur version of the paypal spam scam that keeps going around.
posted by mathowie at 12:14 PM on July 30, 2003

Crackers are after your Blogger password.

Fucking Whitey.
posted by XQUZYPHYR at 12:14 PM on July 30, 2003

Crackers are after your Blogger password.

Fucking Whitey.

Oh man, I should learn not to take a drink when I'm reading this site.
posted by greengrl at 12:42 PM on July 30, 2003

Other than this link, how would anyone ever find this site?

And is it a commentary on the intelligence of bloggers (and Blogger users in particular) that something so visually amateurish could fool anyone?
posted by tommasz at 12:54 PM on July 30, 2003

Brinkster.com is now my favorite host:


Hello,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. This account has been closed.

Thank you,

Jason
Brinkster
www.Brinkster.com


-----Original Message-----
From: urlnotfound
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 4:25 PM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Abuse / Scam Report


You host this site:

http://www21.brinkster.com/abtahizadeh/

which is being used to harvest usernames and passwords of bloggers everywhere.

Please delete or disable this page as soon as possible for violations of your terms of service.
posted by urlnotfound at 1:40 PM on July 30, 2003

Man. What if they got my password and could see all the sensitive information I've put in my blog?
posted by weston at 1:55 PM on July 30, 2003

good job urlnotfound - it's gone already!

i always liked to get in touch with the security desks of various network providers when someone was trying EVERY SINGLE port on my computer while i was watching them through my firewall, and watch as they dropped their connection and the "attack" stopped. Self DOS is always fun to do to people as well....
posted by djspicerack at 2:02 PM on July 30, 2003

Recently received:

Dear eBay member.
Your account has been chosen accidentally. Since there are a lot of cases of cheating, we'd like you to visit your account.If you are not going to do that, your account will be removed away from our site system.
posted by crunchland at 2:29 PM on July 30, 2003

I just signed up! What a great service. Thanks for the link!

that just made me cry.
posted by Frasermoo at 2:59 AM on July 31, 2003

that just made me cry

ROFLYAO?
posted by garyh at 4:00 AM on July 31, 2003

Please delete or disable this page as soon as possible for violations of your terms of service.
posted by urlnotfound

I know I've mentioned it before, but I just love it when the comment matches the username. We should all aspire to this.
posted by soyjoy at 6:55 AM on July 31, 2003

och aye the noo would ye like a wee drappy of milk?
posted by Frasermoo at 1:57 AM on August 1, 2003