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Originally Posted by Chris T
From that BBC article, it is clearly the MSNs, AIMs and Yahoo IMs of this world that are 'at risk'
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Hmmmm
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Originally Posted by Chris T
As for how anyone's going to fall for it, there are millions of computer-illiterate computer users out there who would just click 'OK' to the 'do you want this person to have you on their contacts list' dialogue box, rather than worry about understainding what the message actually means. Of the quite vast number of spim attempts made, they will find a worthwhile number of muppets who will just click OK
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I always click "Ok" because you never know when it might be some legit - my contact details are public. Only the other day someone called Russ added me and I thought, "Here we go - someone else who wants pictures of my genitalia" and it was our Russ. How wrong can you be?
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Originally Posted by Chris T
As for how they guess addresses ... well, seeing as almost everyone I know uses a Hotmail addy as their MSN ID, that's a no-brainer
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Blame Microsoft. If you download Messenger and then choose the option within it to sign up for a passport, you have to use a Hotmail address - no choice. If you go to the MSN website you can use any email address to sign up for a passport.