I got hit by one yesterday. Damn it all. It LOOKED legit, and I halfway filled it out before deciding it kinda smelled fishy...not soon enough did I delete, though. It co-opted all my email addresses and sent everyone I know the same spam. I realized it this morning and sent out a warning, and the inimitable MKH at Hidden City sent me this.
I started to fill it out last night, and then cancelled it figuring I'd look at it today. It seemed odd that it wanted me to use to yahoo.com or hotmail.com address.
I made a quick Google search and found this:i hate spam. (not the luncheon meat, but this.) if you know me, i have two (three?) e-mail addresses because of this fact. but after what happened to me yesterday, i may switch to my g-mail address (the third) for good.
basically what happened was i got an e-mail from marisela's friend, carrie... she listed stuff to sell on this free web classified "organization" called kaboo (i'm not even going to make it a link because they don't deserve one!) and it sent messages to ALL of her e-mail addresses. i don't know how, but it did.
so then, being on her e-mail contact list, i got a message, saying "get first pick of my stuff." thinking it was really written by her, i listed some stuff too. it then linked to ALL of MY e-mail addresses (i even got a message on my cell phone, because i have it as one of my contacts in my address book). thus perpetuating a slightly nightmarish chain of messages and events leading me to send a mass e-mail to EVERYONE in my hotmail address book. (including some people i haven't spoken to in ages!)
so whatever you do... stay away from kaboo.org. it will save you a lot of time and energy. and if you're on my hotmail contact list, my apologies again.
sneaky bastards.
Thanks for getting the word out quickly!
Thanks for the research, and please, if you get anything even REMOTELY spelled like this KABOO crap, DELETE IT. Delete it and anything that looks like it and then scrub with Lysol and Clorox.
Damnable sneaky bastards!
