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  • 12-08-2009 7:45pm
    #1
    Tim M-U
    Closed Accounts Posts: 417 ✭✭


    hi

    a friend of mine got an email saying something about a bank statement online, my friend went in to the website and came the following:

    THIS SERVER HAS BEEN HACKED. NEVER CLICK ON THESE KIND OF LINKS!! -- HV ~ Belial.
    THIS IS A PHISHING SITE. THIS SERVER WAS EXPLOITED!. -- MuNk.

    IF YOU CLICKED THIS LINK YOU WHERE FOOLED! LEAVE NOW!!!!

    - thank you so called hackers for leaving this shell script up for me and belial to remove it asap, you are scum and got what you deserved.


    we share the same computer (mostly) and i think the above is what the hackers did.

    what should my friend do?

    thanks tim

    -not sure if this belongs here, feel free to move it.


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    #2
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    I don't fully understand.

    Was your friend's server hacked?

    Or did he just visit a website which was hacked?


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    FruitLover
    Registered Users Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭FruitLover


    Tim M-U wrote: »
    what should my friend do?

    As the site says, he should "NEVER CLICK ON THESE KIND OF LINKS!!"


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    jhegarty
    Registered Users Posts: 6,437 ✭✭✭jhegarty


    Sounds like the scammers had their server hacked.

    Tell him not to be a prat next time.


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    Tim M-U
    Closed Accounts Posts: 417 ✭✭Tim M-U


    it was an email and apperantly it said in the email that your statement whatever is available online at this website. (for your records its egg in the uk).

    my friend used to be in the uk and when came to ireland, my friend changed email.

    is there a number my friend can phone


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    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    Tim M-U wrote: »
    is there a number my friend can phone

    To do what, exactly?

    Tell your friend to stop clicking on links in any e-mails he receives. Or at least, to copy the link into notepad and to look at it to see if it's real.

    For example, if the link looks something like the following it is fake:

    http://www.egg.com.asddfsdfsdf.com/whatever

    Note the bit directly before the .com is what's important. As you can see, asddfsdfsdf.com is not egg.


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    HandWS LTD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 263 ✭✭HandWS LTD


    Whats with this guy....i can't stop laughing. Just add those emails to his spam folder. You should never just read any weird emails and DO AS IT SAYS. most of them are just spam with a link. Our servers are very secure so all our clients are never getting spam as we are watching out for this kind of thing.

    For future references, tell your friend to stop subscribing to all the newsletters etc.


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