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Ed Ziomek
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Location: Stamford, Connecticut
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 Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:24 am Post subject: abuse of posting information [retitled] |
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I would like to warn persons on this website... apparently some new Hacker is taking single sentence quotations from these Fireside website threads, and the Member Names, and placing "redirection" HTML codes to various other websites, including - potential abuse - sites, bad credit sites, travel agency sites, Pap test sites, etc. etc.
When one sees the DesignCommunity Title, or Fireside title, and identical quotations on Yahoo or Google searches, and selects that Yahoo/Google reference, a common "next screen" is a warning...
"Do you want to load the Active X controls?" I urge the readers to NOT LOAD THE ACTIVE X CONTROLS!
I consider it to be a new form of identity theft and smearing against the three identities mentioned... SDR, Richard Haut, and myself.
I will be informing the Site Administrators of this problem, and Yahoo, and Google, and probably the FBI for this new form of Virus and Identity hacking.
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Kevin
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Location: Eugene, Oregon
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| Ed, if you'd please send us an example at " support@artifice.com ", we'd like to look into this. (There's not really quite enough to work with yet in this posting.) |
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Ed Ziomek
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Location: Stamford, Connecticut
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:26 am Post subject: Methodolgy of Abuse Events |
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1. Misquotes, I was never part of a few discussion threads within the Fireside Forum.., I never contributed comments,...
Yet, why is my name shown in a Google Search associated with these discussion threads?
First on the list, "Fireside Forum Ed Ziomek. No new posts, New Orleans: killers on the streets ... 14 / 1039, Ed Ziomek.
2. Ficticious redirect website, using Fireside Forum Banner, my name, Rich Haut, and "SDR" usernames... -it seems to be a virus loader!
How it works: Viewer performs a Search on Google for a selective term or keyword, such as my name, then selects from this list what appears to be a valid domestic website shown as "DesignCommunity" or "Fireside Forum" on the Banner headline. Once selected, the viewer's computer is then piped into an overseas server for data download of unknown quantity, then redirected back into the selected domestic web destination, i.e., DesignCommunity.com.
3. Overseas bogus websites... DesignCommunity domain names attached to 18 overseas websites...
4. Mysterious domain names, with no known owner, with my name embedded in banner
5. Overseas website, repeated references within Google, seems to be in code (with my name embedded)
6. Non quotes. I am a registered user of a few websites, with zero contributions, yet my name appears embedded in website lookups.
I have notified Yahoo, and Google, Artifice (DesignCommunity Administrator), and government agencies about this problem.
Can't be too safe!
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Ed Ziomek
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Location: Stamford, Connecticut
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 11:55 am Post subject: Phiising Scam... another one using valid design Logos |
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I would not have added to this thread had I not discovered a more serious scam taking place.
This involves the "Paypal" mechanism used with such websites as EBAY.
An EXACT REPLICA of the Logo and valid email return address of the real PayPal credit card pay-mechanism is sent to you, claiming a pattern of irregular usage of your paying account, and....
"COULD YOU UPDATE YOUR FINANCIAL INFORMATION FOR OUR RECORDS?"
I have contacted Paypal and they assure me that the message sent to me, using a "valid looking" Paypal account Logo and email return address, is absolutely FALSE.
The most serious threat to this country may not be just identity theft, it may involve the compromise of our credit card system, and banking system, and our internet system, using valid looking website names, identical Logo DESIGNs, and VALID-LOOKING email return addresses, which are entirely false.
There MUST, MUST, MUST be some form of action against these threats, whether it be aggressive copyright infringement laws, or trademark infringement laws, or "right to privacy" laws, or anti-smearing laws, or something that works. This is frightening. What do we have to defend ourselves?
One of the perpetrators against my name is registered in Dallas, Texas.
Am I to believe, American law can't correct an internet problem in Dallas Texas?
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Richard Haut
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Location: Nice, France
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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Ed
those "paypal" things happen all the time - like the ones approving credit cards you have not applied for or updating accounts with banks you have never dealt with.
the most entertaining are the 419's - you know the sort of thing: I am the cousin of the minister of construction in somewhere or other and I need to get thirty million dollars out of the country, can I put it in your bank account ? or you had a relative Great Uncle Barnabas who lived in West Africa and left fifty million dollars, etcetc.(They are called 419 after the relevant section of the Nigerian Criminal Code).
yes, they are designed to look valid. Most police forces have whole units working on these things.
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Ed Ziomek
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:38 pm Post subject: This is a major breakdown |
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Rich... this seems to be so major.
It is not an anonymous request for donations from some unknown, this is IDENTICALLY mimicing a trademarked LOGO, and using the branded names of American Corporations, and the identities of real people, with the intent to do serious injury to millions of people, if not America itself.
Is there any legislation protecting us against this impending disaster?
Or do we leave it in the hands of the State governments to fix, when we know it is a national and international problem?
I believe there are easier fixes here. I believe the Yahoos and the Googles and the Microsofts of the world ought to sit down and discuss the fix. Yahoo and Google basically responded to me as... "It's your problem, not ours to fix". No, it is all our problem to fix.
This is where I am considering approaching the most prestigious law firm I can find, and bring up a lawsuit to force the issue. I believe certain "gatekeeper companies" are unwittingly "enabling" the problem. All trademarks are targets. All designs and logos are free to be hijacked. Identities can be stolen.
Entire conversations can be attributed to me or you or the next person, and associated with a criminal web site somewhere, for the world to perceive us in the wrong light, when it can be somewhat controlled.
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Richard Haut
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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Ed
where it involves PayPal or Ebay, then you should certainly tell them (and they will probably take it seriously).
where it involves a known brand, then the owners of the brand should try to protect it.
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Ed Ziomek
Joined: 07 Jun 2005
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Location: Stamford, Connecticut
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:41 pm Post subject: Message from PayPal Security |
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"Thank you for contacting PayPal. We appreciate you bringing this
suspicious email to our attention.
Commonly referred to as phishing, these emails are sent by fraudsters
in an attempt to collect sensitive personal or financial information from
the recipients. PayPal takes phishing threats seriously. Our fraud
prevention specialists are working 24/7 to help protect you and enable
the community to stay safe.
After review, we can confirm that the email you received was not sent
by PayPal. Any website which may be linked to this email is not authorized
or used by PayPal.
Our fraud prevention team is working to disable any website linked to
this email. In the meantime, please do not enter any information into
this website. If you have already done so, you should immediately log
into your PayPal account and change your password, as well as your
security questions and answers. We also recommend that you contact your bank and credit card company immediately.
If you notice any unauthorized activity on your PayPal account, please
report it to us by following the instructions below:
1. Log in to your account only from the PayPal website. Do not use
links provided in any email.
2. Click on the Security Center link at the bottom of the page.
3. Click on the 'Unauthorized Transaction' link under the Report a
Problem column.
4. Follow the instructions on this page in order to access the
appropriate form."
****
Note: This is the kind of protection our government should declare as "Law of Electronic Ownership" to prevent these things from happening, and empowering corporations and persons like myself to protect themselves. I don't think this story ends here.
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Ed Ziomek
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:51 am Post subject: NY Daily News, "Ask Asa" column... "E-cons Lu |
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On page 36 of today's NY Daily News... I think "Ask Asa" has scooped the world on the "Paypal" problem...
In his 10 paragraphs describing a victim of the "Mimicing" Paypal disaster, he states...
"PayPal gave him the bad news. The seller has received a bogus confirmation of payment. The buyer had created a fake Web site that looked exactly like the official PayPal site and also generated a fake confirmation number.
The buyer got a cell phone, free of charge. The Seller got a lesson."
Note: A neighbor friend of mine lost an $8000 deposit, apparently on an "online" auction, to one of these ficticious web payment sites.
Thanks to Asa for possibly being the first to publicize this ongoing, developing problem, in the print media.
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