The very hounds of Hell could not drag it out of me ... but is it still "Ponky's Dandruff"? ... memory ain't quite what it used to be ...
to be fair to sisu (not necessarily that it was leaked from here), i've had a few fishing emails to my email address that had my generic password for unimportant accounts in there which was slightly worrying.
I thought a phising email was one, where you are sent an email, that attempts to look like it's from a valid source, and it either wants you to click a link or requests data from you. Not sure how all this is linked to passwords, but im not pretending to be an expert either. As for passwords, I didn't think it needed a password, just a source to change the password, such as coding, which in my head is a completely different thing entirely, because it would overide your password and gain access to whatever it was trying to gain access to - my thoughts then say, that if that occurred on here, you would be locked out of your account, because you wouldn't know what it was changed to. Like I say, I'm no expert, I'm merely giving my thought process on the matter, which could well be wrong.
sorry, when i say phishing i didn't mean one of those link ones. I never click on any links and always go direct to a website or if someone calls i say i will phone them back as i am pretty paranoid about this sort of stuff but i did receive an email that said i'd been compromised, they wrote my password in it which was worrying. Can't remember the full contents though as it was my generic inconsequential password (and it's not an easy password, it's a generic phrase like hiag and piskie need to get a room which would make my password hapntgar)
I treat everything I am not expecting, phonecall, text and e-mail; as a scam Which is why I dont take part in any of the cash prizes on daytime TV, if someone rang me and told me I had won thousands and could they have my bank details I would tell them to **** off
Exactly, the fookers are clever, they make the email look like its from a genuine source you might use, you've just got to resist all temptation to click where ever they are trying to direct you. I've known even simple street surveys to pass on your data, if you give an email address. Some bogus street surveys, even take place in places such as outside well known supermarket entrances, they use them as a form of harvesting data from people, normally in the form of a potential prize for taking part. People let their guard down because it's somewhere they deem to be a safe place, but no one from the business has bothered querying who the marketing people are outside their business. So easy.
I had those, dated back to the hack on Yahoo from years ago. Got one of my bookies accounts rinsed and some tramp in Azerbaijan was playing FIFA on my PSN account lol.
I once had a phone call from a mobile number saying they were ringing me about my problem that Citizens Advice could sort out for me, I said out loud to myself what problem did I have that Citizens Advice could sort for me, strangely the phone went dead
I've had my credit card skimmed a couple of times. I got a call from the bank, am I in New York using a cab....
The problem is that all basic information ie address, date of birth and phone numbers is available if you know where to look, they just hope that anyone over sixty will panic and ask them to sort it for you
I had one of those, one of my cards had been on a shopping spree in Europe, card was cancelled, new one delivered and never paid for any of the purchases in Europe
Yeah, done twice, never cost me a penny on either ocassion. On one of those ocassions, even genuine transactions I had made were scrubbed off as well, despite me saying they were valid - something to do with retailers allowing the use of a card even though it was cancelled.
Best one I had was an Indian guy ringing me at home and saying he was from Virgin Media and I had to give him access to my Computer and all my passwords as I had a virus and if I didn't comply my Virgin Media account would be cancelled and I would not have access to the Internet I asked him how I could know he was from Virgin Media to which he replied Because I am bloody telling you now go to your computer and give me full assess No I said, you are in bloody trouble now he said just bloody give me access now No way I said, loud click as phone was slammed down I did go and check through my Virus Checker just in case
worse virus i ever had was when i started my laptop up it immediately went onto this screen that red screen saying i had to pay 10 quid to unlock my machine with a button to click on and my webcam turned on. Was pretty scary as nothing worked (alt f4, ctrl alt delete, tab windows key). No idea how i got it and even a restart of my laptop just went straight to this program. Luckily i was computer savvy enough so i booted my laptop in safe mode and used the window system restore function but whatever the **** it was i can imagine plenty of people may have paid up
Ransomeware That was used on some big Companies, the bastards made a small fortune before the anti Virus Techs sorted it out
