Seems like a few of my friends on Facebook have fallen into a hole called phishing. I saw quite a few people writing on other people's wall regarding their pictures being on another website, and then a link.
Clicking on the image will reveal quite a blurred out Google Images search page and a scary voice saying "Attention, please your profile picture has been detected on this website." And the horrible thing? It makes the browser lock up until you click okay...
What is this mess? And then the horrible part is that it prompts for your password... and then you probably NOT notice the fine print:
For your security, please do not use your previous password created on this site or the same password that you use to log into other sites. Doing so may re-trigger our auto-post tell-a-friend feature that you may have previously opted in to from this site.Oh.. OKAY.... sure.... "may trigger"... right...
And then some stupid ads pop up, I got a XBox and a IQ one, well, I tried to see what pictures they had on me but I guess it doesn't really work. After closing the survey's and crap, you'll finally get to the picture of you:
With an obnoxious laugh playing in the background.
A quick WhoIs on the domain name shows this:
Registrant [1405632]:
Adam, Arzoomanian bulletinpics@gmail.com
The site is a fun prank - the pic is of a monkey
375 E Harmon
Las Vegas
NV
89109
US
Besides, this person stays at a resort hotel at the same address? I don't think this is the real person... checking out the phone number reveals that this is Spin Night Club Promotions' number. I think someone zonked out this guy.
A quick look at the code shows that this friends-to-friends thing contain only a frame linking to
rotating-destination.com and after looking at the WhoIs for that, you see that it is protected. I guess this person is also pretty smart too...
P.S. This is why you should not trust Norton... :
-runiteking1
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