Hatefully aggressive "social networking."
Oct. 16th, 2010 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsBitten by social engineering.
So I got an email from someone I had never heard of, on an email I had never heard of, telling me that this someone had bought me a "virtual drink." Thinking it was spam, I told it to go away.
I received another email telling me that my drink was about to expire, and "Ellie" would be upset if I didn't accept it. I know so many names across the internet, hell, maybe I did know the person. I clicked on the link "See Ellie's Profile."
What I got was a very busy site that looked like a profile page, but it was lightboxed out with a pop-up saying, "Too see someone else's profile, you must have a profile of your own," and your typical "Tell us your username, password, etc." form. "Screw that," I said, and closed the window.
The site proceeded to bomb me with emails about people who had seen "my" profile, or given "me" more virtual alcohol, or whatever bullshit. The only way to stop the torrent was to actually finish the profile, then demand it be deleted. The question it asked was "Why? Not enough hot people? Or some other reason?" with a box for the other reason. I left a nastygram, for all the good it'll do.
Grief, I hate sites like that.
So I got an email from someone I had never heard of, on an email I had never heard of, telling me that this someone had bought me a "virtual drink." Thinking it was spam, I told it to go away.
I received another email telling me that my drink was about to expire, and "Ellie" would be upset if I didn't accept it. I know so many names across the internet, hell, maybe I did know the person. I clicked on the link "See Ellie's Profile."
What I got was a very busy site that looked like a profile page, but it was lightboxed out with a pop-up saying, "Too see someone else's profile, you must have a profile of your own," and your typical "Tell us your username, password, etc." form. "Screw that," I said, and closed the window.
The site proceeded to bomb me with emails about people who had seen "my" profile, or given "me" more virtual alcohol, or whatever bullshit. The only way to stop the torrent was to actually finish the profile, then demand it be deleted. The question it asked was "Why? Not enough hot people? Or some other reason?" with a box for the other reason. I left a nastygram, for all the good it'll do.
Grief, I hate sites like that.
