Phish - youareblocked.com
If you get an email similar to the following :
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
with the subject of “Somebody has blocked you at MSN Messenger”, please DO NOT give your password to that site. Seems like a phishing attempt to steal MSN passwords. It don’t really affect me if you want to lose access to your MSN account, but if you have my Hotmail address saved in your contact list, for goodness sake please don’t even think about giving those sites your password, since they’ll prob just extract your contact list (my email included) and sell that data to spammers.
Other sites include :
no-estas-admitido.com
noestasadmitido.com
sin-admision.net
you-are-blocked.com
you-areblocked.com
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I decent IM client (I use Adium) comes with such a feature build in, by default. MSN Messenger has a pretty horrible UI in comparison too.
Hi!
Woah, small world. I remember reading your blog a couple of weeks back.
Yeah, I’ve seen Adium and would agree that the UI’s much better than the MSN one. Unfortunately, Adium only runs on OS X. The Linux / Windows crowd’s got to settle for something else, at least till someone ports Adium and its interface over.
That said, I don’t quite see how any IM client would be able to block the threat of the user entering his/her password into a phishing site.
Sure it could be programmed to block IMs from others affected by filtering the phish URL, but in my case I received an email asking me to go over and hand over my passwords to that site.
I’ve noticed your URI in the referrer logs (though from a 404 page.. hmm), but decided to stop by and leave a comment anyway.
I doubt Adium will ever be ported outside of OSX — it’s a Cocoa application, and in part that’s what it gets it’s nice interface from. Google Talk seems promising. We should be moving onto an open source Jabber protocol for IM anyway, though good luck explaining that to an average user..
Anyway, my original point was that if your IM interface already provides all of the desired features, then people would be falling for those 3rd party phishing attempts much less so. At least one would hope.