AOL Instant Kiss !

Hello antionline members I have a question for ya. I just recieved an AOL instant Kiss.

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You've been sent an AOL Insta-kiss!
Date: 5/25/2003 5:43:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: Mobbdeep6
BCC: ************

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You've been sent an AOL Insta-kiss from a secret admirer!

Click here to view your Insta-kiss!

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But when I held the cursor over the link the results were this aol://1223:26260/http://bjaa.50megs.com/1/index.html I thought that AOL instant kiss were AOL spam mail, when the person clicked the "link", the spammer/cracker, would get the users accounts, and passwords.? What I really want to know if I would have clicked the link what would have happenend?1223:26260<-- Is this some sort of port redirecting? I'm curious to know, but dont wanna hurt my system, Thanks for all the help I really appreciate it.

All the link will do is redirect you to a page that looks like its from aol. They will ask for your user name and password for "verifacation". After that, they will have your info, and it will either direct you to a dead page, to aol, or to some sort of error page to throw you off of what just happened.

Just a creative way of asking your for your password.

Gota love Social Engineering. ;) I tried tracing that site. . . but they are behind a few firewalls or routers or some ****. I can't connect to the last node. See.

So if I wanted to report this who would should I get in contact with bjaa.50megs.com, or AOL ?I'm thinking he has an account setup with 50megs.com as well as AOL.

So if I wanted to report this who would should I get in contact with bjaa.50megs.com, or AOL ?I'm thinking he has an account setup with 50megs.com as well as AOL.

So if I wanted to report this who would should I get in contact with bjaa.50megs.com, or AOL ?I'm thinking he has an account setup with 50megs.com as well as AOL.

Thankyou RogueSpy for the Link/Picture am taking a look at it right now;).

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Thankyou --d00dz AtTaCkiN~

Most of the spam you receive while using AOL mail is not an attempt to get your password but more porn spamming than anything. I used to get floods of instakisses, and at one time I was intent on finding the source, but I came to so many dead-ends it didn't matter. It happens to everyone on AOL, and I clicked the report button, but it doesn't really seem as if they've done anything about it, didn't really expect them to anyhow. At one time, I thought it was linked to having a public profile, because I noticed that my secondary accounts without a profile didn't seem to be getting what my main account did. Although, some have told me differently.

My suggestion would be to set up some kind of e-mail filtering, such as for the word instakiss. It's annoying, I know. I got off of AOL not too long ago (a low point in my life). It doesn't solve the problem, but it doesn't really seem that AOL gives a crap anyway.

Will be interesting.

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