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[rpgsearcherz]

Harlot, on 04 August 2010 - 06:38 AM, said:

Thanks for the heads up, however, I am kind of dumbfound on why anyone would want to phish Xisto accounts. It doesn't really make much sense, what are you going to do with the account? It seems pretty pointless to me. I could understand the idea behind phishing paypal, ebay, or rapidshare accounts. You know, accounts that are materialistically valuable. People are getting more and more ruthless everyday it seems, and are phishing accounts simply to cause destruction. Its not about the money anymore, its about simply being devilish and vandalizing without logical cause or reason.

It's probably so if you have advertisements on your websites they can sneak in and change the referral codes to theirs.

Or so they can add hidden pages on your site to host illegal things, botnets, etc. with.

[awan]

the hosting is good

[CalebFTW]

Thanks you very much, OpaQue for the heads up I probably would have fell for something like that if I wasn't paying attention because I am not the brightest bulb I will keep an eye open on any emails I recieve from xisto also who would fraud a email from xisto just dousn't make to much sence in my oppinion
Well anyways regards ~caleb + thank you for reading this post

[sheepdog]

Thanks for the warning Opaque, and Buffalo Help for the very good explaination. Even with my limited knowledge, I could almost understand what he meant, he did a really good job of explaining it.

As far as Knowledge Sutra not being a high traffic site, in fact, it is a very high site compared to many the scammers hit. I keep ads on some of the most low traffic sites on the internet, the free ad places, and let me tell you, they are all gleaned by scammers. They are better at finding ads than real customers are without a doubt.

[NateP]

A good rule of thumb to follow to prevent falling into any phishing scam is to check the full header of any email you receive before ever clicking a link you got inside an email. Even if you are expecting an email from a certain web site, you should check the headers before clicking links. Some of the phishing scams out there literally watch the outgoing mail of a certain web site and try to duplicate the message that was sent to you by the genuine web site, then insert their own links into a carbon copy of the original mail and hope you click on the one they sent first. Ebay and Paypal are two domains you should be very careful about. They are both large reputable companies but that is also why phishing scammers love to pretend to be them!

I learned all this the hard way. I once fell for a Paypal phishing email. I entered my username and password on the fake Paypal site, and my account and funds inside got stolen. Paypal eventually opened a new Payapl account for me but the funds were lost forever ($200+) and it was over 5 months before I was able to use paypal again.

[sheepdog]

Sorry you fell for the Pay Pal scam, that really hurts loosing that much money, not to mention haveing your account tied up for all that time.

It just boggles my mind to think that some people actually make their living by stealing from other people. Seriously, what kind of mentality does that take? How can they live with themselves when that is what they do for a living? And I know there are a lot of them out there that do it too. It's just unbelievable to me. Why on earth can't they get an honest job and work for a living just like everybody else? Can't you just imagine a converstaion at a party or some gathering when you ask a person what they do for a living and they say they rip people off? Geeze. What low lifes!