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Hetzer
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PostPosted: 08:09 - 11 Jun 2014    Post subject: WARNING. Possible phishing attack. Reply with quote

I had a PM from simanz90, he joined yesterday and when I typed a response most of the letters/words in the window were invisible as I typed. Some weird shit. They were all there when I hit submit and checked the post in my outbox. The PM he sent was "hi do you mind taking a few mins time to give some advice on a problem on bike please".

I'm thinking some kind of hack that sends one's password in the reply or something, a password that might be used elsewhere (banking or whatever).

Probably nothing but better safe etc.
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PostPosted: 09:00 - 11 Jun 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like parasite scum to me.
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PostPosted: 09:02 - 11 Jun 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, but let's check out his warning anyway, there could be something to it.
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PostPosted: 09:21 - 11 Jun 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jefr0 wrote:
Sounds like parasite scvm to me.


EFA.
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PostPosted: 09:34 - 11 Jun 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm. I've never heard of anything like this and I can't think of a way it would be possible, the way you've described it Confused

However, rule out some other possibilities first. Try sending a PM to another member, see if the letter disappear again. If it doesn't, reply to the first PM he sent you again, and see if the same thing happens.
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PostPosted: 12:03 - 11 Jun 2014    Post subject: Re: WARNING. Possible phishing attack. Reply with quote

Hetzer wrote:
I had a PM from simanz90, he joined yesterday and when I typed a response most of the letters/words in the window were invisible as I typed. Some weird shit. They were all there when I hit submit and checked the post in my outbox. The PM he sent was "hi do you mind taking a few mins time to give some advice on a problem on bike please".

I'm thinking some kind of hack that sends one's password in the reply or something, a password that might be used elsewhere (banking or whatever).

Probably nothing but better safe etc.


View the pm he sent you, get the source of the webpage, post it wrapped in
Code:
[code][/code]
tags to keep it as plain text.
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PostPosted: 12:24 - 11 Jun 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm putting a link to his member profile here so I can easily find it again. Not so easy to search for a user who has never posted.
https://www.bikechatforums.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=90393
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Ste
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PostPosted: 16:28 - 11 Jun 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

How do we know that it's actually Hetzer posting?

He might have had his account hacked and the hacker is posting blaming simanz90 as a false trail.
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Az
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PostPosted: 16:39 - 11 Jun 2014    Post subject: Re: WARNING. Possible phishing attack. Reply with quote

Hetzer wrote:
I'm thinking some kind of hack that sends one's password in the reply or something, a password that might be used elsewhere (banking or whatever).


Hetzer wrote:
when I typed a response most of the letters/words in the window were invisible as I typed. Some weird shit. They were all there when I hit submit and checked the post in my outbox.


If you thought it was some sort of scam to get your password if you replied, why did you reply?



Ste wrote:
How do we know that it's actually Hetzer posting?

He might have had his account hacked and the hacker is posting blaming simanz90 as a false trail.


So.. maybe Ste's right and Hetzer's been the real hacker this whole time.

https://www.quickmeme.com/img/fb/fbf011f1108bc7d651d4492bc23e7611e296b815e0570349cb4c82ea9f1584bf.jpg
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Ste
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PostPosted: 16:40 - 11 Jun 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pass the popcorn

<+BCF> simanz90 has joined Live Chat
<+BCF> simanz90: hi there
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<+BCF> simanz90: can someone kindly help me with bikie problems
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<+BCF> simanz90: ??
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<+BCF> simanz90: ok im new on here
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<+BCF> simanz90: not a clue what 2 do
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<+BCF> simanz90: who can i speak 2 about my bike please
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<+BCF> simanz90: ok thank you its only a ybr 125 but im really stuck just got new job and its 10miles away
<+BCF> stinkwheel: https://www.bikechatforums.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=25307
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<+BCF> stinkwheel: If you PM him, he will help

Basically, your high spec computer is fucked again. Razz
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Hetzer
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PostPosted: 16:44 - 11 Jun 2014    Post subject: Re: WARNING. Possible phishing attack. Reply with quote

Az wrote:


If you thought it was some sort of scam to get your password if you replied, why did you reply?


I thought nothing of it until I saw the words I was typing were invisible. I hit submit to see if they would be there anyway (they were). I then deleted the PM before it could be read (not that it would necessarily thwart the intended action of the miscreant).

If nobody else got a similar PM it was probably some twat playing silly buggers.
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PostPosted: 16:46 - 11 Jun 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://i.imgur.com/0iRXqDs.jpg
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Hetzer
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PostPosted: 16:47 - 11 Jun 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Starting to get a bit DMT in here now. Neutral
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PostPosted: 16:49 - 11 Jun 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Starting to get a bit forum feedback and help in here.
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Ste
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PostPosted: 16:51 - 11 Jun 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

in b4 gold blob rage!!
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PostPosted: 16:52 - 11 Jun 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hetzer wrote:
Starting to get a bit DMT in here now. Neutral


DMT?
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Ste
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PostPosted: 16:55 - 11 Jun 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dimenthyltryptamine.
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