Important Security Warning from Flickr

[Annette]

Flickr News
19th January, 2007

Important Security Notice:

Recently there have been attempts to lure Flickr members to web pages which look similar to Flickr and invite people to enter their password or download a "package" of private Flickr photos.

Flickr does not offer downloads of photo packages, self-extracting archives of photos, private or otherwise. If you see a link which offers something similar -- even if it appears in a comment or posting left by a member you are familiar with -- please use the "Report Abuse" link at the bottom of every Flickr page to let us know.

This is not a problem specific to Flickr, but there have recently been Flickr members targeted. We don't want to see anyone affected so it is important that you exercise caution in your clicking.

How can help protect yourself:

-- Make sure that the address locator bar of your browser is visible. If you follow a link anywhere in the site that leads to a page that looks like Flickr but the URL is not flickr.com, please use the Report Abuse form listed in the footer of every page to let us know. We have active filtering and we'd like to review any comment so that we can add new URLs to these filters.



-- Flickr members can only sign in to Flickr on "login.yahoo.com" (excepting "old skool members"). For your own protection, you should review the information available at security.yahoo.com.

Helpful links
http://security.yahoo.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing
http://www.fraud.org/tips/internet/phishing.htm
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/aler...ngalrt.htm

[Frankybonz]

Thanks a lot, Annette!
I'm on flickr often, as are a lot of people. It's no surprise that it would eventually become a target.

[Annette]

they are making a fake page to get the account's name and password
then there is a yahoo email account attached to it.

I am wondering if this could be the way someone got Tony's yahoo addy
they were able to send and email and have it give his address at yahoo.

4 days after the day I got the 3 bogus emails (in 3 accounts)
I got another
evidently, he turned it in to yahoo and it didn't stop them!

[Frankybonz]

Could be possible. Does he use flickr?

[Annette]

:dontknow:

[northfork]

all the new browsers are getting all those phishing filters, firefox has it i think, safari in leopard (apple's next os) will have such a feature (link to article) (screenshot below)
hopefully this will prevent all this .

[Annette]

how does one report finding a fake web page?

I was able to get the new Opera, but CrApple is less accomodating.
Scew their Leopard! they never fixed Tiger before moving on!
they half ass get a OS and then they switch, rendering all the 3d party applications useless!
my answer is not to use the fucking internet unless and until they start policing it.
RIght now, some fucker has mined all L.W.'s addresses and is sending letters using HIS Yahoo addy!
I got a pile of them!

No one at yahoo is doing Jack Shit!

[Frankybonz]

I know for PayPal you email fraud@paypal.com (or something like that). In general, I'm sure that the real websites will have information on how to report fakes of their pages.

I did a search and found this website:
http://www.ic3.gov/

[northfork]

i dont want someone to take charge of the internet, then such problems will disappear but the good freedom that we are enjoying today with the internet will vanish the day the internet will be someone's property.
i hope the internet says free, and never falls into the dirty hands of the politicians/police/big brother. this junk/viruses/hacks/phishing is something we all have to deal with to keep the internet free

long live the wild world web


:ups:

[Annette]

I have gotten two separate solcitations from two different yahoo users in a week!

both of them say, "they didn't send the shit to me"

Stuff is coming to me in their name! {if this shit isn't stopped, fuck this fronteer!

I like my enemies where I can get a bead on their ass!
If some dill hole writes a letter and signs it as me, there's a law for that.


This type of shit, where I end up paying to get fucked over, that is what kept me off line all those years.

Fraud needs to be prosecuted.

[Annette]

I know for PayPal you email fraud@paypal.com (or something like that). In general, I'm sure that the real websites will have information on how to report fakes of their pages.

I did a search and found this website:
http://www.ic3.gov/

http://www.ic3.gov/
you think they will look at the email(s) from "Tony Tiger" that are using LW's addy?
the other day, another yahoo user sent me a similar, "join this" and she said she didn't send it.
that is two yahoo accounts generating solicitations for weird 3d party sites.
The crime, as I see it, is sending anything
using the name of someone who did not send it!

This stuff tries to get you to join a reunion site, they want details, a profile.

some one sending, saying they are me needs to go to :jail: