I was phished.
Someone hacked into my facebook account and started e-mailing all my friends, telling them how great this weightloss blog is! And how wonderful all these people look after taking weight loss pills! And please click here because Erin endorses it!
Yikes.
My dear sister e-mailed me this morning (who is 39 weeks along and scheduled to deliver next Tuesday, yippee!) and asked me what is going on. I clicked over and immediately saw what was happening, and changed my password. But not before it had been sent to all of my friends whose first names begin with A, B or C (and a few other random ones too).
My password had letters and numbers (so it's not like it was a simple one to figure out). How scary! So right now I have my computer searching for viruses and "other potentially unwanted software" (which it does once a week but this all happened last night). I momentarily wanted to delete my facebook account, but does that do any good? What about my e-mail? What about my blog? What about Twitter? Stupid phishermen.
The thing that makes me feel really bad is that some people thought I was telling them they were fat, and that's why I sent them a link to a weight loss blog/pills/whatever. Nonononono! I would NEVER do that. I hope you know that!
So, to reiterate: I don't endorse Colon Blow. I have never read a weight loss blog, ever. I am changing all of my passwords on everything I use on the internet to something crazy bizarre (which I will probably promptly forget). And Aidan threw up during the night (because I let him eat raw cookie dough yesterday or some other reason? You decide). And I will probably be checking my e-mail regularly throughout the day with worry to see if anything else has happened/will happen.
The end.
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I hate that feeling. I once had someone on my account saying I was stuck in Europe and was asking for money. Yikes! I had that panic/delete everything feeling but we watched it and have been fine every since. I just changed my password on everything. And if it makes you feel better, Rhya got into my rising rolls and ate raw bread dough...but she didn't throw up. Hope Aidan gets feeling better!
Oh my goodness! I think my worst nightmare would be someone hacking into my blog. But, I have a backup program. Might be time to change my password, just in case.
That is so scary! I HATE hackers....it just feels very violating, Gosh!!!!
So crazy!! Stupid hackers. I am glad that you figured it out and got your passwords changed!!
That happened to me once. Phishermen are so STUPID. Don't they have anything better to do??
Your message never reached me. Thank goodness. (And my name does begin with A)
Well. from now on I NEVER click on anything suspicious that I know my friends would NEVER give me. :))Hope your little one feels better.
Those phishers are phools. I'm sure those who know you will figure it out pretty quick.
I think I'll go eat a bunch of cookie dough. I'll let you know if it makes me throw up.
There was just a story on the Today show about this very same thing yesterday...scary!
Yikes! That is scary. I'm sorry that happened to you. Maybe I should think about changing some psaswords.
How annoying! I wouldn't have been insulted. I knew you'd been hacked. I was going to send you a message about it, but I figured someone already had since it was late enough.
This just happened to a friend of mine, only they looked through her messages and sent out an email using personal information about some difficulties their family is having, and asked everyone for money! Crazy. I think maybe it's time for a password change-up all around. Yikes.
But if someone really were fat---like Biggest Loser fat, would you tell them? Just not using Colon Blow? JK
Sorry things got hacked. I'm sure it's a horrible experience!
I'm sorry some people need to get a life. that we need virus detection programs at all is sad. Mine runs every night. But it wouldn't catch a hacker.
Hope the little guy is OK.
I think Facebook has just had lots of problems lately with being hacked.
I don't think it was phishing...that would mean you got an email from FB and then signed in via that email. So it's just hackers.
Stupid, annoying hackers! I've actually had a lot of friends with weird stuff like that on FB. No worries, but did you let FB know what happened?
I was wondering about that email. I thought it odd that you'd write that on my wall.
The internet is a scary and wonderful place all at the same time.
How ANNOYING!
Colon Blow?! That's hilarious! My email was phished a while back, and now my entire address book, including myself, gets spam from me. Not just any spam, porno spam and male enhancement spam. I tried changing my email address, but it didn't work. I hope you don't lose friends over your endorsement!
Seriously? Is the name Colon Blow? Seriously?
No fun! What idiot would endorse something called "Colon Blow"?
The only person who sends me stuff like that for REAL is my husband's ex-girlfriend. I wish I were kidding. If anything like that shows up from someone else I just assume it's something like this. Sorry it happened to you!
How annoying! A while ago, someone figured out my email and password and created a myspace account with it. I had no idea until I started getting all sorts of messages. What a treat that was.
So sorry! That really is the worst feeling.
Yeah, more and more I keep hearing about scary virus and hackers on facebook. Darn thing.
I'd keep all of the cookie dough to yourself, you can never be too safe.
Happened to me too--had to quickly change my password. I don't think any damage was done, but it's scary stuff!
Ew.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, makes you feel like nothing is secure online! I'm sorry that happened. It really bites.
I've had 3 accounts stolen before. I totally know how you feel.
Colon Blow. Exceptional choice of words. Now added to my own repetroire.
Thank you
There truly is a sense of helplessness when someone hacks into one of your accounts. I'm sory!
I hope Aidan gets feeling better! There are some nasty bugs going around out there...
That has happened to a couple of relatives. It is so scary. I hate it that people can't just be nice and respect other people.
Yeah, I thought it was weird when you told me to "put down the slim-fast". I don't drink that garbage.
Too funny.
I didn't get a virus, though.
That wouldn't be so funny.
Yikes! I am so sorry. Talk about feeling violated! Good luck cleaning everything up.
Oh my gosh. I would absolutely die. What a PAIN! I'm so sorry. I hope everything's safe now. Ugh.
Trust me... I didn't open the mail link, but if it was Colon Blow I would have laughed. No one would really think that message was from you. Trust me. I didn't...
I shouldn't think this is funny, but I sort of have to because you're like the LAST person that would ever send that to people.
And did Aidan eat a LOT of cookie dough? Just curious.
I automatically knew you had been hacked when I got that message. I guess because my name starts with "a" I get a lot of hacker messages. The funniest thing is that most of the weight-loss messages come from people who I KNOW do not need to lose weight!!
I had the same thing happen to 4 friends on facebook!! Must be something going on with their site. Hope Aidan is feeling better:)
That scares me - I need to figure out ways to protect myself. Thanks for sending this out because it is a great reminder.
Some hacked my husband's co-worker's Facebook page - then started chatting with his friends that were online, saying that he had been mugged in London and needed them to wire him $900. One friend called him, found out he was safe in Utah, unmugged, so then he started messing with the hacker say "Dude! I'm in London! Where are you and I'll come pick you up!" The guy got offline pretty quickly. hehehehe...
Awful!!! Sorry to hear this. There are so many internet scams and idiots...who has that kind of time?
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