Monday, July 24, 2006

Fake Orkut Site Stealing Google Passwords?

(Note: Published on The Social Networking Weblog)

(Hat Tip: IT Digest, Software And Tools, Digital Inspiration)

Users logging onto Orkut need to beware, as there seems to be a new phishing scheme aimed at stealing Google passwords to your account.

The carbon copy which goes by ork0t.com (with a zero replacing the "u") seems to be owned by a mysterious person from New Jersey according to whois.net. I did a reverse phone number lookup of this person, but apparently they have listed little info about their true identity.

Users who have Google Toolbar (with Firefox) installed should receive this warning below, notifying them of this copycat.



Users who accidentally log into this site should notify Google as well as change your password to all Google services. (Note: Compromised accounts should not affect users Ad Sense publisher accounts if one does not hold a Gmail account with Google).

Update: I've notified Google about this already, so hopefully their legal department can take care of this issue.

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