AOL AIM scam

matt_j

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So for quite a while now if you have AOL you can buy stuff thru AOL wallet or thru credid card that is linked thru your account and you can choose any shipping addy as well. So new scam is as follows: you get an IM from "normal looking" screen name (none of that Katie2hot4u) saying that you just received an insta kiss/greeting. Since something like that exists I had no problem following the link. Than you are brought to an "official" AOL page that allready has your screen name prefilled and all you had to put in is a password. Neat huh?

So link you get is something like that:
http://www.aol23432.com/message-center/ilogin.php?to=kimmy&from=perez1620

Where Kimmy is your screen name and perez1620 is a sender. Try it on your own. Substitute Kimmy for anything you wish and click on the link. You will be brought to the password page. Now use anything you want as a password as long as it is not real. Anything. It will work. No matter what you put in. And that brings you to the intsa kiss page with some cheesy graphics that can be seen here:

http://www.aol23432.com/message-center/conferm.html

Meanwhile if you used your real screenname and password right now the bad guys have access to your account, banking information, and cc numbers. Ain't that something?

Matt
 
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