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HACKERS, I hate them

mvg3d

mvg3d

Charter Member
Hi Friends,
ATTENTION, my e-mail adress mvg3d..... was compromised by hackers, I'll post a new e-mail adress as soon as possible........
:censored:
 
Good luck, Manuele. My email has also been hacked twice in the last several years. Very aggravating. There's a special place "down below" for hackers and spammers.
 
Manuele,

So sorry to hear that. I was surprised to receive the following yesterday from your hacker:

" I really hope you get this soon as i am writing you in distress. My family and I traveled down to Madrid on a short vacation trip and unfortunately for us the hotel we lodged got caught-up by fire. All our valuables including cash and cell phones were destroyed during the inferno and the hotel's phone line was also disconnected. I will explain details when i return. We need your financial assistance to relocate to another hotel and also arrange for our traveling documents. please let me know if you can be of any help soon.

Manuele"

Since I knew you were more than a "short trip" away from Madrid and you do not live in Spain, I assumed your email had been compromised.

I also get invitations to join your facebook page.
 
Milton Shupe said:
Manuele,

So sorry to hear that. I was surprised to receive the following yesterday from your hacker:

" I really hope you get this soon as i am writing you in distress. My family and I traveled down to Madrid on a short vacation trip and unfortunately for us the hotel we lodged got caught-up by fire. All our valuables including cash and cell phones were destroyed during the inferno and the hotel's phone line was also disconnected. I will explain details when i return. We need your financial assistance to relocate to another hotel and also arrange for our traveling documents. please let me know if you can be of any help soon.

Manuele"

Since I knew you were more than a "short trip" away from Madrid and you do not live in Spain, I assumed your email had been compromised.

I also get invitations to join your facebook page.
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Hi Friends,
My new e-mail adress is now in my profile.
Milton, Yes, I really send the invitation for Facebook.
:salute::salute::salute::salute:
 
Sorry to hear that your e-mail addy was hacked Manuele... it's happened to me before too. Like people have nothing better to do than to make life harder for us good guys. (Doesn't nessessarily include me...:icon_lol:).

All the best -- BB686:USA-flag:
 
Sorry to hear your e-mail address has been hacked, but I'm glad you are okay as I also received this alarming message from Madrid.

I received your other invitation as well, but I'm one of the last dinosaurs, without facebook.

Cheers,
Huub
 
look who i caught today trying to find a way into our server, lol, shame on you M$

Time: Fri Apr 27 14:56:36 2012 -0400
IP: 205.248.101.84 (US/United States/tide20.microsoft.com)
Hits: 6
Blocked: Permanent Block

Sample of block hits:
Apr 27 14:56:29 ns1 kernel: Firewall: *UDP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:24:e8:6b:c7:f8:00:1e:49:d9:f3:60:08:00 SRC=205.248.101.84 DST=72.233.76.234 LEN=340 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=110 ID=20981 PROTO=UDP SPT=32809 DPT=500 LEN=320 Apr 27 14:56:29 ns1 kernel: Firewall: *UDP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:24:e8:6b:c7:f8:00:1e:49:d9:f3:60:08:00 SRC=205.248.101.84 DST=72.233.76.234 LEN=364 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=110 ID=20982 PROTO=UDP SPT=32809 DPT=500 LEN=344 Apr 27 14:56:31 ns1 kernel: Firewall: *UDP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:24:e8:6b:c7:f8:00:1e:49:d9:f3:60:08:00 SRC=205.248.101.84 DST=72.233.76.234 LEN=364 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=110 ID=25202 PROTO=UDP SPT=52405 DPT=500 LEN=344 Apr 27 14:56:31 ns1 kernel: Firewall: *UDP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:24:e8:6b:c7:f8:00:1e:49:d9:f3:60:08:00 SRC=205.248.101.84 DST=72.233.76.234 LEN=340 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=110 ID=25203 PROTO=UDP SPT=52405 DPT=500 LEN=320 Apr 27 14:56:34 ns1 kernel: Firewall: *UDP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:24:e8:6b:c7:f8:00:1e:49:d9:f3:60:08:00 SRC=205.248.101.84 DST=72.233.76.234 LEN=340 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=110 ID=1180 PROTO=UDP SPT=29139 DPT=500 LEN=320 Apr 27 14:56:34 ns1 kernel: Firewall: *UDP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:24:e8:6b:c7:f8:00:1e:49:d9:f3:60:08:00 SRC=205.248.101.84 DST=72.233.76.234 LEN=364 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=110 ID=1181 PROTO=UDP SPT=29139 DPT=500 LEN=344
 
huub vink said:
Sorry to hear your e-mail address has been hacked, but I'm glad you are okay as I also received this alarming message from Madrid. I received your other invitation as well, but I'm one of the last dinosaurs, without facebook. Cheers, Huub
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Hey Huub, I'm a dinosaur also.

RD
 
no facebook here, either.
A cell phone, but that is all it is, a phone. It doesn't do anything but receive and send calls. Doesn't make coffee (or should I say latte?)

It's not that I'm anti tech; I just know too much about how dangerous a place the internet really is.
 
Blackbird686 said:
Aye... that makes four of us dinosaurs. I had an account at one time but when I heard that some outfits were "peering in" on folks without authorisation... I dumped it.

BB686:USA-flag:
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As soon as somebody says you get everything for free you just KNOW its going to cost you!

In this case you pay with your private data.

I decided to never join Facebook when I got mails from them asking we to join because these people whom I know were already in! Amazingly 3 of 4 they cited had a connection to me.

One was my brother, 2 through conferences and a 4th I didn't know.

How could they know? With 4 the connection was really weak, so they must have searched the web randomly for cross connections or something!

Really freaked me out.:pop4:
 
My wife says I always take the negative lookout, while I insist it's actually reality I'm dealing with.

The best examples I can think of have to do with those TV ads asking you who's searching the web for you - an old flame? I say it could be something even more exciting than that - like perverts, lawyers, government agencies like the IRS, process servers, bored NSA employees at that new center in Utah surfing the web on a slow night, enemies you had in high school who just can't let an old slight die, stalkers; besides, if it's an old flame, shouldn't you be leaving that alone, especially if you're the husband?:icon_eek:

Lots of embarassing stories there, and folks just can't leave it in their mental trash where it belongs!
 
SSI01 said:
My wife says I always take the negative lookout, while I insist it's actually reality I'm dealing with.

The best examples I can think of have to do with those TV ads asking you who's searching the web for you - an old flame? I say it could be something even more exciting than that - like perverts, lawyers, government agencies like the IRS, process servers, bored NSA employees at that new center in Utah surfing the web on a slow night, enemies you had in high school who just can't let an old slight die, stalkers; besides, if it's an old flame, shouldn't you be leaving that alone, especially if you're the husband?:icon_eek:

Lots of embarassing stories there, and folks just can't leave it in their mental trash where it belongs!
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Gee, SSI01, Your wife and my wife must know each other! :icon_lol:. Aside from that you really hit the perverbial "Nail on the Head" regarding all the folks out there with prying eyeballs!

BB686:USA-flag:
 
No Facebook, No Twitter, No Smartphone. Only a Dumbphone with texting blocked. No GPS...except in FS9 :icon_lol:

Oh, almost forgot -- No Stress!!! :jump:

- H52
 
Sascha66 said:
...I decided to never join Facebook when I got mails from them asking we to join because these people whom I know were already in! Amazingly 3 of 4 they cited had a connection to me...

...How could they know? With 4 the connection was really weak, so they must have searched the web randomly for cross connections or something!
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Well, some of those social networking sites, when you join, their software goes through your e-mail program and sends invitations in your name to everyone in your address book - just like a virus does! I don't know if Facebook does it that way, but I wouldn't be surprised, since I'm constantly getting invites from there. I've trained my e-mail program to recognize anything from Facebook and all of those other sites as spam, and to delete it at the server level without downloading it, but I see the invites when I check my e-mail on my service's web mail page.

It seems that hardly a week goes by when there isn't something in the news about some new privacy or security issue at one of those sites, and it seems that Facebook is the one most often mentioned.

I read an article last week about how many employers, when interviewing prospective new hires, demand the applicant's Facebook user name AND Password, so they can not only check out your public information, but also access your private stuff.

I guess I'm another dinosaur. I have no account on Facebook or any other social networking site, no Twitter, no cell phone, none of that stuff. And I don't miss it. I can think of exactly twice in my life when it would've been handy to have a cell phone, and never when I've thought it would be handy to have any of that other stuff.

Aside from the privacy and security issues, the thing I wonder about is how people have time for that stuff. If I had accounts on any of those sites, I wouldn't have any time to use them. And I'm retired! How do people who work do that stuff? Do they do it all at work, on their emploter's time? Or do they come home from work, get on the computer, and not get off of it until they go to bed?
 
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