Modern Vespa

Cheer up Brian, things could be worse.

I am forwarded to another site??? MAKE IT STOP

Perhaps if someone made a credible case of a real problem, we would have compassion. When people instead make wild and unsubstantiated accusations about the site -- the same site I spend ungodly amounts of time working on -- my reaction is "Bullshit". The OP has very directly accused us of hacking into his gmail account, because his gmail account allegedly started sending out spam immediately after registering for MV. This is a classic fault of logic known as post hoc ergo propter hoc, or (loosely) afterwards, therefore because of. The fact that something happened after a particular event is no guarantee that it was caused by the event in question, and people believing otherwise are little better than superstitious villagers burning some poor woman at the stake because their crops went bad.

Furthermore, the OP has not given any useful detail on which to act -- he did not contact me with a sample of the spam or present any details of the attack. He didn't even indicate whether the supposed spam that was sent shows up in his gmail Sent folder, which would indicate that his account was actually used for the attack. I think it's far more likely (if any spam was actually sent) that some spammer is simply using his gmail address as a return address on spam sent from somewhere else, which is an extremely common tactic. No accounts anywhere need to be hacked.

Instead, the OP came directly here and -- on his first post -- "warned" everyone that someone from Modern Vespa had maliciously used his gmail account password to hack into his gmail account. Kind of like the smear campaigns that we prohibit here. The fact that the OP additionally claims to have reported "it" (whatever that is) to the FBI speaks volumes about the veracity of his story.

So no, Linda, I'm not going to give the OP any compassion. His post has all the hallmarks of complete and utter bullshit. Whether this bullshit is malicious or simply misguided is open to interpretation. So please put down your pitchfork and use some tiny bit of intellect instead of succumbing to superstition. There will be no witches burned here today.

This could be a possibility:
Maybe you sent or forwarded an email to "most, if not all, of the people in my Yahoo address book," either in the "To:" box or the "Cc:" box. Someone on that list forwarded it to someone else who forwarded it....
Eventually it came to either a spammer or someone whose computer had been infected and all those addresses ended up in the hands of a spammer.
That's why it's always a good idea to use the "Bcc:" box when sending to multiple recipients.

I absolutely know that all of those people would never be in the same email. Some of them are family and friends. Others are neighbors from my old house that don't even live there anymore. Others are from the BMW car club. The only time I would have sent a large email would have been baby pics, but I wouldn't have sent them to half of those people. It was just really weird. It immediately stopped once I changed my password. It had never happened before and hasn't happened since.

I think that hackers are creating a fake Yahoo login page to snatch passwords. Yahoo even has a method to put an individual signature or tag on the login page, so that you know it is a legitimate. Why would they do that, if people had not already been doing it? What gets my goat is that they did it to send spam? I am glad that they didn't get any private info and use it, but damn, have some higher, more important goal than spam

That sounds like a great idea But it might get you banned from MV.

No one did.

A script ran through "smart" dictionary logic for log-in names, then for each name ran through a similar technique for password combinations until it hit one that worked, and blammo.

webmail is the new open SMTP relay. No server side authentication on the person to validate the sender. Boon to spammers.

The cat is definitely the team leader here

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why hasn't the OP replied yet?

Because the OP is just a stink stirring troll most likely.

Oh, please...
Looks to me like y'all have ostracized the OP right off the board

That's quite the impressive accomplishment... y'all must be soooo proud!

I'm guessing because the FBI picked him up for the crime of being naive. (yes, I edited myself).

What's it like on your planet Linda?

For the record my post was not made until 2 days after the OP and over a page and a half of comments. Usually when someone with no history on a forum making accusations about something or coming off negative and then does not reply it indicates they were trolling and trying to either hurt the forum or just trying to stir up crap. I suppose there is a chance that you are correct that is why I said "most likely" and not definitely.

On another issue. Have you considered making it to the Maggie Valley, NC ride on the weekend of the 17th? Quite a few of us are showing up...there is a thread about it in the Ralllies and Events section.

Not hackers- You have a computer virus. One that sends the infected URL to everyone in your address book. My boss's PC had the same virus a few days ago.

jess, we need to have a chat. my mod bikini has been missing for months now and you said you'd no idea where it was i bet you've stretched it too

I swear I was going to give it back, eventually.

Wait, are you trying to say that I'm saying I've got bigger boobs than you?

This thread is worthless without pics

No sure I wanna know

Thats nothing, they have access to my MV account and about every 6 months post something to get me banned. suminabitches!

Fresh in from the print shop, Miss February!

Did anyone find anything that said exactly what the problem was?

Exactly what happened to vaccines with the claims they caused autism.

PS. Does the bikini shot now make Genie a 'bunny'? <ducks>

I will get shouted at for this !!!!! lol xo

oh no... does this make this thread NSFW?

Naah, about the fourth limb of the phone tree and he would give up like everyone else when confronted by the impenetrable automated phone routing systems that large companies use to get rid of pesky callers to their telephone response centers.

-v

i'll use it as my avatar on the GTS owner's forum

your welcome Genie lol

Marty post the from behind version of that showing the g-string on Jess.

Oh God, please don't!

Ok time to sign off...i am in enough pain as it is.

This post was not quite
What we were hoping to see
Try again, perhaps?

Gah!

GREAT! response

I knew I should have stopped watching this thread.

I have the power to remove stuff like that, so I'm going to exercise said power. In the name of all that is good.

I hope you all will support me in that.

The emperor has no clothes

Miss MV pmsl

I see you were hired in a supporting role?