Sunday, July 09, 2006
THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL MESSAGE/ANNOUNCEMENT. THIS IS JUST A PERSONAL OPINION FROM ME HAVING SEEING THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THEIR YAHOO ACCOUNT.
Have you ever revealed your personal information on the web? Not your favourite food, artists, who you want to meet, what books have you read etc etc. Personal information as in your email password. Never? I thought so.
But I think some of you have. Maybe you haven't realised it yet. I have the urge to write this post on the weekend to remind all of you. I usually never write on weekends as I have better things to do such as having a nice sleep throughout the day. A couple of my friends cannot access the yahoo mails and connect their YM. Why? Their password had been changed. When they wanted to log in in to their Ym, it refused. They wanted to log in into their Yahoo mail, the page said that the username and their password are not the same.
Why all of these happened? I can only think of one sole reason. They have revealed their password at some certain websites. Let me sum all of these into easier reading.
WHAT HAPPENED?
-Password of their Yahoo account had been changed. As a result, they cannot access their Mail, YM, Briefcase, Photos etc2. as of the password of all Yahoo Services are the same.
WHY?
-They have revealed ther password t certain websites.
HOW?
1. They received email from certain websites saying something like this. "Hey, your friend, Ali, has something to show you. It's his personal test's result of his/her lover bla bla bla(this is an example). But first, but your email and your password into these boxes and submit and after that you can see your friend's result bla bla bla.
This is just my opinion. Maybe there are other valid reason on why their password are changed. I've summed up all of these because I have received these emails from the ones that their password have been changed.
How we can prevent this?
-DO NOT PUT YOUR EMAIL PASSWORD INTO ANY OTHER WEBSITES EVEN IF THEY SAID THAT YOUR EMAIL AND PASSWORD ARE SECURED.
What if you have?
-Right now, at this very moment, open your email account and change the password. Right now. At this very moment.
What if you really want your email back even the password has been changed.
-You can click the Forget your password link which appeared at most of these email homepage. Like Yahoo Mail, they will ask about your private information such as your birth dates, your name, country, etc2. They will also ask your personal question which you have set when you sign up with them. Such as What' my pet name? etc2. So if you can remember all of these, they will send you an email to you secondary email account with you password. You are saved.
To those people who play those quizzes on the net, do some surveys, to those who do the personal quiz test to determine if you are a batman or a superman, please beware. If you have put you email and password into some websites, please take the action above and change your password right away.
Some of my friends loses important emails, contacts in their address book and even YM contacts. It's hard to organise back your contacts and your YM list. You have to do announcement on Friendster and such, announce mass messages to friends, and sometime these things can be annoying.
So please, before you starts annoying me, take some measures.
Sorry for writing in such a way. Bad grammars, wrong spellings etc. I wrote this in less than 10 minutes. I don't know who will read this but I hope people who read this can remind their friends.
Gomok.Out
taken from gomok's blog.
posted by Internship - IT/IS Jan 03 @ 12:11 PM,
8 Comments:
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At 1:57 PM,
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nice advise.
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At 5:45 PM,
Internship - IT/IS Jan 03 said...
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tq..aku baca je post ko..hehe
-nadxoxo- -
At 10:15 AM,
MK said...
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haha..
leh je..tapi aku nyer 3-inch screen je..nk ke? ;p
aku nyer nds dh leh play mp3 ngan video..aku br try smalam..whee~ -
At 10:52 AM,
MK said...
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anjing lg..isk2..ade gem lg best, gem anjing tu gk die nk men..
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At 2:12 PM,
MK said...
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At 4:37 PM,
MK said...
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they said if you leave your dogs unattended for a long time, he/she will run away..hehe..better create new profile la..and buy a new dog..ekeke
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At 3:56 PM,
MK said...
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ko tatau ke gjh?
a day after we bought the toys,
the hamster died..
he never even had the chance to try those wheels..
poor little hamster..
may he go to hamster heaven... -
At 3:54 PM,
Internship - IT/IS Jan 03 said...
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die hamter die! die! die! muahahaha!!
-org yg kejam-
