Please spread the message. A recent phishing-like e-mail is going around and if users aren’t careful, their MSN account can be hacked! I recently received an e-mail on my hotmail account (which is my MSN account) which read:
Sender: xyz@hotmail.com (where xyz is in your MSN list)
Tittle: Somebody has blocked you on MSN messenger
Message:
You’re Blocked!
A contact has recommended you to enter in www.youareblocked.com.
The site allows you to find out who has blocked or deleted you from the MSN MessengerThis e-mail comes to your inbox, since you have been recommended by one of your contacts
When you click the link, it’ll bring you to a website that looked pretty decent and professional. But don’t be fooled by the site’s design to pass it off as a genuine site. To check for a blocked contact (xyz@hotmail.com), you have to enter your MSN e-mail and password. But wait.
Why would you need to do that? Never give away your credentials unless you are very sure that the site is not bogus. Google the site and the source where you get the link from. Look for security certificates. And what I meant by “very sure” is if ask yourself this question — Do I feel a sense of insecurity (even a lil) giving away my password to the site? If you feel even the slightest distrust, stop and close the site.
Spread the word. Do not be fooled by the e-mail. Searching the WWW showed that people who have signed in actually got their MSN account hacked (multiple sign-ins, etc). IF you had fallen prey to this scam, change your password IMMEDIATELY!
11 responses so far ↓
1 Joyce // Feb 13, 2008 at 11:58 pm
hey! i’ve just received a email thats stated exactly the same as what u wrote. immediately i googled the site and came to ur site cos i was thinking is it a hoax and luckily i did google about it.
though i dont understand why would anyone be so free to hack into others msn..
thanks for the info!
2 Elenoa // Feb 14, 2008 at 6:41 am
Wow I almost did enter my email and password, but then I thought “Wait…usually secure sites don’t need -this- many ads, and very rarely would they have pop-up windows…”
Phew, thank goodness I stopped just in time
3 JustSomeOne // Feb 14, 2008 at 3:47 pm
You’re right. It’s a good thing I used my second email account to sign in and see if the site works, and not my main account. Close shave, haha. I’ll spread this.
4 carrie // Mar 10, 2008 at 3:11 pm
hey thanks, i got the mail too and googled the website, and ended up at your page. thanks for the heads-up!
5 Danielle // Mar 22, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I however did not google it first and within five minutes of entering my email and password (yes you can say it DUMMY) I apparantly signed into another computer using my msn account. Right then I changed my password. I hope it helps.
6 Moe // Mar 27, 2008 at 7:06 am
i got the message………but before i entered my password i googled it…….sure enough it BOGUS! thank god i did
7 Judi // Mar 29, 2008 at 10:37 am
Thanks for your info. I also almost did enter my email and password. =]
8 Stephane Pare // May 1, 2008 at 11:03 am
what i often do is enter a totaly bogus username/password and see if i can login. If it’s fake, it elts me in anyway.
9 Sonya // Jul 8, 2008 at 8:52 am
ok, now what happen if you already clicked on it and added both your password and e-mail
now all my friends are telling me that they are receiving a link to the site, which is not good.
Please help me figure this out( in other words how to fix it ).
Thank you
10 firdooze // Jul 10, 2008 at 12:30 pm
@ Sonya: Well, this may sound a tad too easy but just change your e-mail password and password hint. It may well work. And do tell me if it did. =)
11 Razor Devil // Aug 21, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Hey thanks man, I got this email and googled the site and found this. Thanks for helping out.
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