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Update: Yahoo spam scam to create new (zombie) accounts

1 November 2004 at 2:42 pm | General

The Yahoo spam scam I blogged about here (and created a checker for here) is actually a pretty big deal.
Looks like users who go ahead and click on this link, then are prompted with a Obfuscated image that is pretty much the spammer’s free ticket to getting another free yahoo account.

(yes , I know that is still not the right term for such images, but what is?)

News sites carrying articles about this Spam scam

  • The Register.co.uk
  • ZDNet.com
  • VNUNet.com

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    • 4 Responses to “Update: Yahoo spam scam to create new (zombie) accounts”

    1. sulover
      January 1st, 2001 at 12:00 am
    2. sulover
      November 1st, 2004 at 8:04 pm

      No plans yet for TXGV. I don’t know if I’m still coming up to visit.

    3. yathin
      November 1st, 2004 at 9:50 pm

      I know that is still not the right term for such images, but what is?

      It’s called Captcha! ;)

    4. vinit
      November 2nd, 2004 at 12:25 pm

      Added to VB’s KB.

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