Phishing Second Life Website Warning!

Slnn.com

Has posted something I knew about for a while. It has to do with Moveablelife, a webviewer for Second Life residents.

(http://movablelife.net/login.aspxl)

It reads as the following:


"MovableLife allows Second Life users to log in to Second Life using only a web browser. MovableLife allows you to chat, IM, search, teleport, manage friends, groups, and much more. If you just want a quick and easy SecondLife experience without all the 3D graphics, then MovableLife is exactly what you are looking for."


It asks for your personal information, as in your second life name, and password.
My Warning to everyone is DON'T do it. It is your personal information at stake and this spyware web viewer will only cause exposure to Credit Card Fraud and Fraudulent Transactions that will be hard to make a case with Second Life should anything happen.


I never entered anything once I went to the website, but its a RED FLAG. Anything asking for your password that is not apart of linden lab, exposes you to risk.

If linden lab has any integrity left, they would plug this hole up. Before more lawsuits start to happen.

Slnn.com

Has posted something I knew about for a while. It has to do with Moveablelife, a webviewer for Second Life residents.

(http://movablelife.net/login.aspxl)

It reads as the following:


"MovableLife allows Second Life users to log in to Second Life using only a web browser. MovableLife allows you to chat, IM, search, teleport, manage friends, groups, and much more. If you just want a quick and easy SecondLife experience without all the 3D graphics, then MovableLife is exactly what you are looking for."


It asks for your personal information, as in your second life name, and password.
My Warning to everyone is DON'T do it. It is your personal information at stake and this spyware web viewer will only cause exposure to Credit Card Fraud and Fraudulent Transactions that will be hard to make a case with Second Life should anything happen.


I never entered anything once I went to the website, but its a RED FLAG. Anything asking for your password that is not apart of linden lab, exposes you to risk.

If linden lab has any integrity left, they would plug this hole up. Before more lawsuits start to happen.

Slnn.com

Has posted something I knew about for a while. It has to do with Moveablelife, a webviewer for Second Life residents.

(http://movablelife.net/login.aspxl)

It reads as the following:


"MovableLife allows Second Life users to log in to Second Life using only a web browser. MovableLife allows you to chat, IM, search, teleport, manage friends, groups, and much more. If you just want a quick and easy SecondLife experience without all the 3D graphics, then MovableLife is exactly what you are looking for."


It asks for your personal information, as in your second life name, and password.
My Warning to everyone is DON'T do it. It is your personal information at stake and this spyware web viewer will only cause exposure to Credit Card Fraud and Fraudulent Transactions that will be hard to make a case with Second Life should anything happen.


I never entered anything once I went to the website, but its a RED FLAG. Anything asking for your password that is not apart of linden lab, exposes you to risk.

If linden lab has any integrity left, they would plug this hole up. Before more lawsuits start to happen.

Good post Aya

Residents should also be aware that if they use that service your referring to, it is entirely at their own risk and LL will not accept any responsibility.

In addition to your post, the paragraph below is from the TOS for SL.

"At the time your Account is opened, you must select a password. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and are responsible for any harm resulting from your disclosure, or authorizing the disclosure of, your password or from use by any person of your password to gain access to your Account or Account Name. At no time should you respond to an online request for a password other than in connection with the log-on process to the Service. Your disclosure of your password to any other person is entirely at your own risk."

You've got to be kidding... What are you gonna do when Linden Lab stops making the "official" viewer? (Protip: The login process is moving to the official website soon)

I agree with the warning that you put your info at risk whenever you use a third party viewer (and most have warnings to that effect right on the front page of their viewer) but your being overly dramatic and dare I say alarmist over something that's been possible since the code open sourcing. If you don't trust the people who make your viewer of choice (assuming it's not LL in which case you don't have a choice) then don't use it, but most people who are smart enough to use a third party viewer know the risk.

You have to be ******** joking! we have reached level of stealing?

That person adam seemed a little strange. If reading that post I don`t trust them period! How LLABS allowed this ****. I don`t understand. Japan yea right

Nobody "allows" phishing.

As for third party viewers, reputable ones will NOT ask you for your user name and password. You can download the Nicholaz viewer, for instance, without giving his website any personal data at all. True, if you send him your crashlogs, he'll have access to private information, but he warns you about that, and you don't have to do it if you don't want to.

Another draw of the "moveablelife" viewer, as I understand it, is that that viewer is the favorite tool of griefers. Although the OP's "moveablelife" site is more likely NOT a source of the actual viewer, but simply a phishing expedition.

Finally, there is more SL phishing going on. Beware of any IMs you receive in-game which direct you to "the SL website"...it may be a phony, to trick you into revealing your username and password.

Is that more of a Havok 2 "soon" or a windlight "soon" or more like an IDV soon?

And doesn't the phrase "have any integrity left" presuppose that there was at some past time "integrity"?

That guy next to you on the bus *might* be a murderer.

My advice is to never ride the bus.

Hold on, why do we think it's a phishing site again?

Doesn't anybody remember AjaxLife and how Linden Lab gave the creator an award @_@

I don't know quite what is being talked about here, but

(a) I have seen NOTHING indicating that MovableLife is a phishing website;

(b) SLNN has NOT published ANY article suggesting this.

There was a piece I read recently about its ToS regarding IP created through effectively gave almost full legal control of the company over anything you do through the site, but that was on Virtually Blind (referred to by SLI) and did not say that this was a phishing site.

http://virtuallyblind.com/2007/10/18/movable-life-grabby/

If you wish to practice absolute data security then certainly, do not use MovableLife, AJAXLife or any third-party clients. The title and first post of this thread, though, seems to imply that MovableLife is a phishing website which as far as I am aware is false.

i don`t really know if that a wise thing to say. If indeed they are doing said issues then you better staying away. as for 3rd party viewers like Ables and Nicks they are safe. As for Ajax I don`t trust that viewer at all. I do believe MovableLife is a phishing website, if people have referd to it as a possible phishing website its better safe then sorry.

Only you have no reason to call it a phishing site. Which is after all accusing the owners of criminal activity.

SLeek asks for your username and password......

In all fairness what give you the say it isnt phishing site?

Libel is against the law where I'm from, you wouldn't want someone to make accusations about you or your business, and now it's the only thing you see when you search the forums for "movablelife." Hopefully if someone did it to you, you'd have people trying to defend you, too. Besides, the whole reason this was posted seems to be based on the ignorant belief that "third-party" viewers aren't supposed to be allowed.

I would never be the first to try a new portal viewer. Always, always do just a little research. If there is no mention with some simple searches, caution is advised.
If sites and/or forums have more info, there will be obviously more humans to announce quality. ( As seen in these forums.)
BTW..This will be more commonplace in a year or two.
Anyway, you could test first with a non linked alt.

Sorry, I drank beer.
And..Have fun people and be nice to each other.

Thats nice

Er, because it's an entire working web-based SL client, the authors of whom are a publicly-traded RL company with their RL details published?

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071010/20071010006437.html?.v=1

Nice assumption........

Anything that asks for your SL password you will be open to anything MOVEABLELIFE wants to do with the data they receive.

But whatever, YOU participate at your sole discretion, and when you have fraudulent activity going on after providing your password to others, don't whine to Linden Labs, as they will not help you but only lock your second life account.

But hey...I am only a (dare I say?) "alarmist"....

:hrugs::

This really doesn't sound any different from Ajax Life which naturally requires your username and password so you can log in to SL with it. No one doubts the integrity of Ajax Life (and it's been out for months with no scandals), and while I don't see the point of this Moveable Life (since Ajax Life already exists) there doesn't appear to be any evidence of Phishing.

Frankly, "phishing" doesn't even really apply. It would be phishing if they were pretending to be Linden Lab, and they obviously aren't.

OMG, I type my password in every time I log in to SL? Does this mean that Linden Lab could use taht password to ... oh god, would they???