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Don’t Fall for the MSN Worm… (I did)

17th March 2007

I can’t believe I fell for it. One of my MSN Messenger contacts APPARENTLY sent me a chat message, saying this…

Surfing the web Ive found this useful tool in http//Get-Messenger.com/?en
Just entering your MSN Messenger account you can find out who has removed you from his/her contact list.I hope you find it useful!

It sounded worth checking out, so I clicked the link, (the colon is removed above) and tried the “service”. All is showed me after entring my Messenger ID and password was a list of my contacts, none showing as removed, so I just left, and signed back into MSN.

A minute later, I got that message from someone else too, verbatim. I instantly realized what had happened, (SCAM) and then realized that my MSN password was now out there.

Less than a minute after that, the second “sender” of the message asked ME where I had gotten the link, and I realized that HE had just gotten the message too, apparently from me.  Awwww.
I had to hunt a bit to be able to find out where to change my password for MSN messenger, and I finally found it here.
https://account.live.com/

I’ve written articles warning people about junk like this, yet I fell for this one bigtime. This one’s going to spread like wildfire…


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One Response to “Don’t Fall for the MSN Worm… (I did)”

  1. Mr T. - Links for everyone - Says:

    Same deal I also had this.
    I too though I would have known better.

    If I could I’d shout it from the rooftops - so instead I just blogged about it, like you.

    A mighty nice way to increase traffic to their site for ads though.

     

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