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nathanprocks wrote:

BOBBYBOB3 wrote:

My mom got emails from a person she knew talking about this awesome weight loss website.
The person told mom she never sent it and would change her e-mail password immediately.

My friends have had that stuff happen before. I was on Facebook last night and some guy (I  don't even remember what he looks like) starting sending me weird messages and he said he wanted photos of me naked... I was actually telling my friend about it while I was getting those messages. He tried messaging me again, so I blocked him. 

Recently, I was on Facebook, and I got a notification. Interested, I opened my notifications bar, and it said that one of my friends joined the group I "made" called "Click here to get the Facebook dislike button!"

Of course, I had never made the group, so I deleted it and did a full scan of my computer to try and find any sort of virus. Then I changed my password, and noticed that I had the extension "Facebook dislike button" installed on my Chrome. So I deleted that, too, and from then on I was careful about what sites I visited.

Happy ending 

nathanprocks wrote:

A spammer wrote:

<schnip>

You are advised to confirm the true statue of the documents that was summated on your behalf to enable us proceed with the transfer of this fund into his Bank account. If we did not hear from you in Three (5) working days, we shall conclude that you authorized Mr. ANDERSEN ERIK ROBERT DEDEKAM to claim his fund and the fund will be transfer into his bank account. DID YOU AUTHORISE HIM TO DIVERT YOUR FUND INTO HIS BANK ACCOUNT? Reply via email and call me in receipt of this email for more information in details. Reconfirm your Mobile/Direct phone

<snipp>

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Uh.

scratchisthebest wrote:

nathanprocks wrote:

A spammer wrote:

<schnip>

You are advised to confirm the true statue of the documents that was summated on your behalf to enable us proceed with the transfer of this fund into his Bank account. If we did not hear from you in Three (5) working days, we shall conclude that you authorized Mr. ANDERSEN ERIK ROBERT DEDEKAM to claim his fund and the fund will be transfer into his bank account. DID YOU AUTHORISE HIM TO DIVERT YOUR FUND INTO HIS BANK ACCOUNT? Reply via email and call me in receipt of this email for more information in details. Reconfirm your Mobile/Direct phone

<snipp>

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Uh.

I have no idea what this is. TOO COMPLICATED STUFF

nathanprocks wrote:

Spaxxy wrote:

nathanprocks wrote:

My friends have had that stuff happen before. I was on Facebook last night and some guy (I  don't even remember what he looks like) starting sending me weird messages and he said he wanted photos of me naked... I was actually telling my friend about it while I was getting those messages. He tried messaging me again, so I blocked him. 

Recently, I was on Facebook, and I got a notification. Interested, I opened my notifications bar, and it said that one of my friends joined the group I "made" called "Click here to get the Facebook dislike button!"

Of course, I had never made the group, so I deleted it and did a full scan of my computer to try and find any sort of virus. Then I changed my password, and noticed that I had the extension "Facebook dislike button" installed on my Chrome. So I deleted that, too, and from then on I was careful about what sites I visited.

Happy ending 

I installed that dislike button before. It puts ads everywhere on Facebook and makes it really slow.

Check for an extention called Yontoo- even if you have adblock it add ads everywhere on a layer above the site or something
If you use Chrome go to the Three lines in to the top right corner
Click "View background pages"
Look for Yontoo or ereally anytihng you or anyone else didnt intentionally install
if its not there, youre good
if it is, click it then click end program
it will say 'yontoo has crashed' in the bottom right corner
ignore that

A supershort story.

I was using the Minecraft wiki, learning how to create a multiplayer server. (I was using a mac) I didn't know much about computer code, and had no idea what Terminal was. I was told to open Terminal and enter some code/mumbo-jumbo. I eventually had to ask my dad for help on what to do.
He looked at the screen, and started asking questions- "did you open terminal? Did you change the wifi password?" I answered yes, because it told me to. (Remember that- we have a password nobody else knows.)

I felt like an imbecile.

My dad started looking around some more, and his face became a mix of worry and anger. He said something that terrified me. 

"Look here. It seems our Wi-Fi is in use by someone else."

EPILOGUE

My dad had to wipe ALL the information off our computer. Now our computer seems more like an empty shell than a fun tool. 

ReadyRobin wrote:

Also in many youtube gamer videos like Minecraft and such
"yo man cool i'm hooked on this game too check it out-->(link to some bit.ly thing)"
The worst thing, they are also top comments.
And even though I know they're fake, I can't help but read those PLEASE DON'T READ THIS BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS things.

Those are so annoying!