Beware of Hackers

[spidernut]

Someone tried to hack my account on this forum. I don't know what they think they could gain from getting into the account, but you never know what harm they can cause.

[So Cal Mark]

someone tried to hack my acct today also

[aj81spider]

How did you know that they were trying?

[divace73]

How did you know that they were trying?

Same....

[Daniel]

someone stole my cookies i left on my inbox those dam hackers !

ok all joking aside how would someone know if they have been hacked or attempted ? please share
what to look for .

[124ADDHE]

same with me! you can tell because the forum will ask for your password and username, out of the blue, without you deleting your cookies.

[baltobernie]

Greetings Mr. Daniel,

I have just discovered that you have an uncle in Nigeria who has recently left you a large sum of money. It would be my pleasure to help you recover this inher inharan money. Please to contact me very immediately.

[grittracing]

I have noticed sometimes when I go to log on,it says I have used my maximum attempts to log on and it kicks me off. is that somesone trying to hack my account?

[So Cal Mark]

that's the tipoff, your maximum number of attempted logins has been exceeded

[Jimb]

I too don't get it.
So what if they hack my FiatSpider account? It's not like it has anything of value in it other than my postings....and I don't put bank account or credit card numbers on my positngs
Jim

[Estaban]

I belong to a gaming group, Star Trek and that kind of games, we call simms.

One of our members had his laptop stolen and before he could do anything about it, we had received letters of resignation from him for all the games he was a member of, the social and/or non-game related responsibilities, and they were not nice resignations either, his parents found out he never liked them and never wanted to see them again (at least that was what his letter to them said) and he was the winning bid on quite a few ebay items.

Never take a hacker lightly. Do you use the same password or log in name for email, other forums, bank etc... he can use this as a phishing trip.

[PittsburghKevin]

The point of the hacking attempt is to obtain your email address and a password that you use. The email addresses can be used for spamming later. If they succeed and now know your password for this site. People reuse passwords. Email addresses are commonly used for user ids.

So, the harvesting of email addresses is secondary. The collection of (potentially) viable email addresses + passwords is more useful to them and can be used for identity theft.

[81SPIDERMATT]

I have noticed sometimes when I go to log on,it says I have used my maximum attempts to log on and it kicks me off. is that somesone trying to hack my account?

same here.... this morning...

[beachboy]

I doubt anyone got hacked, I'll bet its a software malfunction. This forum software has done weirder stuff in the past.

[Daniel]

I have just discovered that you have an uncle in Nigeria who has recently left you a large sum of money. It would be my pleasure to help you recover this inher inharan money. Please to contact me very immediately.

funny thing Bernie

I get these about once a week and i am just to lazy to send them some money so they can send me millions
in return or fly over to africa to pickup the offer I have told a few of the in reply emails i have this happen
to me so much and there offer is low or that this happens to me all the time thanks ! they never send another
offer after that cheap skates !