HACKER SCAM ALERT!!!
Please, Folks, if anyone contacts you with an "urgent" message asking you to email them, you need to be super careful and check their stream and profile. Most will have no pics available, or only a profile pic they think is attractive. These folks are hoping you will contact them by email and they can somehow access your computers and hijack all your banking info! It's even worse when you use a smart phone, since they can access all your contacts, too!
Years ago, before they were even as good at this as they are now, I was hacked by a Nigerian. Just chatting on the site made it possible for him to take over my computer! I don't know how it works, but all I know is it was pretty quick and would have been painful had I been doing online banking and such back then! I would try to log onto my computer, would enter my password, and watch it change before my eyes from a 7 digit to a 16 digit one! The hacker was remote controlling it! I had to have it wiped at a computer shop. Had that happened with a bunch of photos and programs, I could have lost everything. Fortunately, it was in the early days of my computer use, and I didn't really use it for much other than going on a few sites and surfing the web.
Flickrmail is a good thing. Use it! If you don't know if you can trust someone, it's a whole lot safer than giving out your email. I understand that yahoo is one of the worst for hackers, too, so if you use Yahoo chat or email, you might want to switch to gmail or something. Be careful whose emails you open, and play it safe. Block people who try to get you to email them, and let everyone know who they are! Let's drive the bad guys off Flickr!
HACKER SCAM ALERT!!!
Please, Folks, if anyone contacts you with an "urgent" message asking you to email them, you need to be super careful and check their stream and profile. Most will have no pics available, or only a profile pic they think is attractive. These folks are hoping you will contact them by email and they can somehow access your computers and hijack all your banking info! It's even worse when you use a smart phone, since they can access all your contacts, too!
Years ago, before they were even as good at this as they are now, I was hacked by a Nigerian. Just chatting on the site made it possible for him to take over my computer! I don't know how it works, but all I know is it was pretty quick and would have been painful had I been doing online banking and such back then! I would try to log onto my computer, would enter my password, and watch it change before my eyes from a 7 digit to a 16 digit one! The hacker was remote controlling it! I had to have it wiped at a computer shop. Had that happened with a bunch of photos and programs, I could have lost everything. Fortunately, it was in the early days of my computer use, and I didn't really use it for much other than going on a few sites and surfing the web.
Flickrmail is a good thing. Use it! If you don't know if you can trust someone, it's a whole lot safer than giving out your email. I understand that yahoo is one of the worst for hackers, too, so if you use Yahoo chat or email, you might want to switch to gmail or something. Be careful whose emails you open, and play it safe. Block people who try to get you to email them, and let everyone know who they are! Let's drive the bad guys off Flickr!