My yahoo password nearly fell victim

Written by kayode muyibi on October 11, 2005 in General Stuffs, security. Add Your Comment.

well I was chatting with my partner and all of a sudden a message came which didnt look like it came from him.

(MASS) Checkout this site injoy http://www.geocities.com/tracity/?200529?20057

Stupidly, out of a rush, because the person happens to be my partner, I clicked on the link, and well it brought about a yahoo login screen, well I did think it was a yahoo member site, you know the group sorta thingy that requires you to enter your username and password before you login. well so it is, I entered my username and password, I fell for it. But something caught my attention, the page wasnt in english, besides a geocities site which it was, it looks a bit wierd. I knew something was wrong. Wooohoo, password stolen.

Well so i had to rush back to yahoo, change my yahoo password immediately. And here I am happily blogging, almost a victim of password theft. Well how can I be sooo stupid ???

Dont enter your password if you decide to check the link out. Dont say I didnt warn you !!!

This post was written by kayode muyibi.

Emmanuel

well Kay,
it is good u wrote about this. I was a victim of this some times ago but thank God I got to understand the implication of this on time. I had to change my password also at that time. I would just advise that we all be very careful in visiting links that we get when chatting. As for me, I have made up my mind not to visit a link unless the person I am chatting with ask me to do so....
Felix Adebayo

I just checked out the the link. It looks so real anyone could have fallen for it too. Anyway, it's good you've done the right thing, that is changing your Yahoo! password.