Comments on: Yahoo Messenger Spam

By: kaity

kaity — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:15:53 +0000

I have been off line and mobile people on my MSN list have been getting messages from my e-mail address that I didn’t send. I was off line at the time they got them. I have changed my password twice already. But people keep continuing to get strange messages. Some have been like the ones at the top but others have been different and they are making my friends mad. If there is a way to fix this please let me know.

By: caddyman

caddyman — Sat, 16 May 2009 21:05:18 +0000

I have been getting this messages also. They are coming from prople who are on my YM list but have not sent me any messages in a long time; I thought it was strange to be getting messages like this from those people; I have never opend the site, and have no intention to. I am wondering if there is any action I can/should take about this. It is anoying and disturbing and feel as though I should, if nothing else, inform the people, from whose YM ID I am receiving this Messages from, that their computer perhaps has a virus; I am also somewhat curious if there is some way to notify some sort of Autority about this and have even felt like taking some sort of retaliation on the darn company. Please let me know if there is anyting I can/should do about these anoying messages.

By: HelpFul Hedda

HelpFul Hedda — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:16:13 +0000

hey Maggie,

You didn’t get infected with anything. Your friend was infected and sent you the message.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:33:02 +0000

I’ve received this from a friend who says he didn’t send it and is getting it himself. A reliable friend. I ALWAYS ck things out on Snopes.com but didn’t with this!?!? Am I ever sorry cuz I fell for it (never do this crap!) and the package came 15 days “after” the 14-day trial period. I refused to sign for it and had to start a dispute with my bank. Since then, 3/1/09 is when it all started, they’ve charged my checking account for roughly $300.00!!!! Well, $150.00 of is was NSF charges as a result of the charges by my bank!! But they credited it all temporarly and all is well for now I hope. Man do I feel like an idiot!! Still waiting on a 85.90 refund and everything will be o.k. But, I had NO IDEA MY PC COULD GET INFECTED!! I ran a virus scan at least a week ago and all was well plus I keep my virus program updated at all times. I just visited the first site I received (BEFORE I GOT TO THIS PAGE wavedate.com) but it wouldn’t go there thank God!! Just showed results for it which led me to this site. So glad it didn’t go to the actual website! *Now to stop rambling … do I need to change my password on Hotmail and Yahoo? Am I infected and if so what should I do?? I can’t believe this crap!! Who in the hell has nothing better to do then mess with ppl??*
I hope others didn’t get into it as deep as I did and I’m not a stupid person. College and all but dear God I fell for this one! Thanks for the info and all of the comments. :>) *

By: James Hfield

James Hfield — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:19:54 +0000

This looks like a account compromise. If you use the same username/password combination you use at yahoo at some other not so great sites, then you run the risk of losing your username/password combination if those sites get compromised.

Ideally you should use a really strong password for banks,
somewhat strong for mail/messenger (reputed sites)
throwaway for random signups.

In this case, it’s not yahoo messenger compromised – if it were we’d have seen an urgent update, and posts on their blogs etc. Just change your password and your problem should go away!

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:44:39 +0000

My Dad was at my house on my computer and received an IM from his Yahoo Mess just like the Acai spam described. It seems as though everyone one in his address book is receiving these spam IM’s – and he’s not doing it – what has happened? Any suggestions?

By: Lieven

Lieven — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:45:11 +0000

I also am infected in some way, since users get messages of me, even when i am not on the computer. I am thinking that my username and password got leaked through a database from a social networksite (where you can sign in and check if someone on you MSN list is also on that social networksite).

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:14:52 +0000

Has anyone a solution for this problem, it is damn annoying

By: andre

andre — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:28:50 +0000

I got two this morning from 2 people on my contact list on msn. One of which is my wife who’s asleep at time of writing. She’s showing online despite her laptop being off.

By: Noemi

Noemi — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:33:53 +0000

I get these messages ALL the time as well. And the messages are not about acai berry, lol. MSN Live is infected as well…