tictoc - 11:39 pm on Apr 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

I was on Yahoo instant messenger one day and clicked on a message someone sent me saying they had some new pics they wanted me to see. The link sent me to a Yahoo Photos page that made me sign on (again) which I did not think was strange because sometimes you have to sign in again to view photos or use other yahoo features besides mail. I signed on without even thinking about it being a scam and it sent me to some strange site with pop-ups and took my Yahoo password that had control of my email, messenger, calendar, address book, etc.

I then tried to sign into Yahoo and they had already changed my password. I called Yahoo and finally proved to them I was me by my alternate email on the account and got it changed back over before the spammer had fully damaged my email account. I felt so dumb to have fallen for that scam but it’s when you are half way paying attention that you get caught off guard. I guess that is why they send 50 or so Paypal looking emails a day to hope they catch us when we are not paying attention. I am more careful now but it just makes me sick that these people get away with these phising emails from Paypal, Ebay, and Amazon. It amazes me they are not caught more often because I get hundreds in my email box every week without even going to my spam mail.