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Eveline Nixdorf
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12-08-2007 18:07
A friend tells me today that someone she knows had her entire account wiped, by receipt of some kind of malicious object. Is this possible? Her listing is gone from search, all inventory and linden money gone... as usual, there's no telling what's "true", but it sounds pretty nasty. No word yet on what the object was that did this.
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Dekka Raymaker
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12-08-2007 18:14
it was a 'give me permission to take all your Lindens' object
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Conan Godwin
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12-08-2007 18:16
This sounds highly implausible. It is possible that someone may setup a phishing scam to get people's passwords, and then use them to delete accounts though. I can't think of any reason why they would go to that much trouble though. Unless it were a simple fraud and they delete the account once they have cleaned it out, so as to buy themselves a few more days grace before the victim notices their money is gone.
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JayDee Unknown
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12-08-2007 18:16
it was a 'give me permission to take all your Lindens' object Sounds a lot worst than that if the the inventory is gone to. _____________________
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Ordinal Malaprop
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12-08-2007 18:20
A friend tells me today that someone she knows had her entire account wiped, by receipt of some kind of malicious object. Is this possible? No. It's rubbish. _____________________
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Sling Trebuchet
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12-08-2007 18:30
Unless it was a Linden teddy bear???
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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12-08-2007 18:34
If you granted debit permission to an object, and it cleared you out of a million lindens or so, might that trigger the illicit transaction detection system?
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Sindy Tsure
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12-08-2007 19:52
If it's true, it sounds more like password theft..
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Angelique LaFollette
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12-08-2007 20:03
A friend tells me today that someone she knows had her entire account wiped, by receipt of some kind of malicious object. Is this possible? Her listing is gone from search, all inventory and linden money gone... as usual, there's no telling what's "true", but it sounds pretty nasty. No word yet on what the object was that did this. The thing is Evie, these things always happen to people who are Known by other people. As soon as you start getting these "Six degrees of Seperation" stories, you need to take them with a Grain of Salt. You can Guarantee you are not getting ALL the details of the Incident Accurately Even if the event actually took place at all. We had a story like that some time ago, and it was the deletion of Half a building that was supposed to be due to some Mysterious griefer object. the story was related by the partner of the person to whom this happened. After much doubt, and Further questioning it was revealed the Partner had found a misplaced prim on their property, and Messed up when they tried to return, or delete it, and deleted the Building themselves. The story of the griefer object was to prevent them from looking Foolish. It didn't work. Angel. |
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Susie Boffin
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12-08-2007 20:54
Of course if you give someone your password they can do whatever they want with your account. Otherwise no.
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JayDee Unknown
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12-08-2007 21:10
The QuickTime bug sounds pretty bad also. if they can really take over your avatar as they say then maybe they can take/delete your inventory also. Not sure.
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Susie Boffin
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12-08-2007 21:19
Wait a minute! Could this be why I was going around quacking like a duck earlier?
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JayDee Unknown
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12-08-2007 21:24
Wait a minute! Could this be why I was going around quacking like a duck earlier? That might have something more to do with your forums title. "Certified Nutcase".  _____________________
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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12-08-2007 22:06
Why a duck?
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Joseph Abel
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12-08-2007 22:36
Wait a minute! Could this be why I was going around quacking like a duck earlier? ...omg, did it echo? My brother in law's sisters 2nd cousins college roomates barrista says a ducks quack doesn't echo... _____________________
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12-08-2007 22:54
I doubt an object did it, but if the person was foolish enough to give out their password, and someone else decided to use it to scam other people, it's quite likely the account could get booted.
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Faithless Babii
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12-08-2007 23:54
yes...i used to roll my eyes and look the other way when *i* heard these kind of stories...because well.its easier isnt it\? Id have to believe the unthinkable...if i didnt ignore it..and that is..there are loopholes...yesterday i MYSELF..(and im no newb) got stung...my lindens went POOF...it wasnt someone else..it was ME. Of course...noone wants to think it REALLY happened..but it did..and i doubt ill get apenny linden back...but hey that FINE..until it does happen to you, you can look smug and say *oh thats impossible, they lied, its a scam*...ignorance is bliss ...i wish i was still ignorant...id have some spending money for xmas lol
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Oryx Tempel
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12-09-2007 00:17
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Angelique LaFollette
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12-09-2007 00:22
...omg, did it echo? My brother in law's sisters 2nd cousins college roomates barrista says a ducks quack doesn't echo... "Mythbusters" tested that one, i don't know how it came out though, I had to go out and i missed the end of the show. Angel. |
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Nerolus Mosienko
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12-09-2007 00:33
This also happened to my friend Gutterblood Spoonhammer. Took them about 2 months to give his account back, and when they finally did they said it was an accident....
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Rachel Howey
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12-09-2007 00:41
"Mythbusters" tested that one, i don't know how it came out though, I had to go out and i missed the end of the show. Angel. It echoes. Some scientist in the UK researched this for ages to test it out. Tragic really - it put him in an asylum. The strain was so much that he went quackers. /me runs away. |
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Conan Godwin
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12-09-2007 02:19
I lived in the countryside up until last year. There was a small nearby lake at the end of a valley. Duck quacks do echo. They also sound like human voices when heard from a distance.
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hateful much? dude, that was low. die. . |
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Conifer Dada
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12-09-2007 03:01
It's like on old newsgroups etc where trolls or other angry posters used to threaten to wipe one's hard drive. I always took those with a pinch of salt!
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Jezebella Desmoulins
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12-09-2007 06:06
Worse yet, I heard from the friend of a friend of a casual acquaintance twice remove that there's a malicious object out there that will steal all your L$, delete your account, e-mail profanities to your grandmother, reformat your hard drive, let the air of your car's tires, turn your lawn brown, give you acne, and make your hair fall out in RL. So be careful when accepting debit permission!
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Bee Mizser
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12-09-2007 06:22
...omg, did it echo? My brother in law's sisters 2nd cousins college roomates barrista says a ducks quack doesn't echo... Ahh, get him to watch Mythbusters. Adam & Jamie proved it does. LOL  |