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password phishing with incoming links

  1. crazynetechstuff
    Member

    I noticed in my stats that I had an incoming link so I clicked on it and was directed to a blog where my post was referenced but they had someone else's name as the poster. I thought it was just a mistake so I tried to leave a comment that the name was wrong but it wanted me to log in to wordpress to leave the comment but I was already logged in. This is the login page
    http://iphone. castlemainefringe .com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http://iphone. castlemainefringe .com/2008/03/09/iphone-app-idea/
    when I tried to login here it said my username was incorrect. I immediately changed my password in case it was compromised. Is this a password phisher ?

    [Link to splog broken - Mark]

  2. orbvab
    Member

    Most likey yes, but it might be a wordpress.org login.

  3. universalgeni
    Member

    Thanks for the warning...

  4. mark
    Staff

    It's a splog and it is stealing your work.

    Registrant:
    David Jones
    3424 Monroe #4
    Carlsbad, CA 92008
    United States

    Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
    Domain Name: CASTLEMAINEFRINGE.COM
    Created on: 24-Nov-06
    Expires on: 24-Nov-08
    Last Updated on: 13-Jan-08

    Administrative Contact:
    Jones, David [email redacted]
    3424 Monroe #4
    Carlsbad, CA 92008
    United States
    (760) 434-5810 Fax --

    Domain servers in listed order:
    NS283.HOSTGATOR.COM
    NS284.HOSTGATOR.COM

    http://www.hostgator.com/tos.shtml
    "Use of our services to infringe upon any copyright or trademark is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to unauthorized copying of music, books, photographs, or any other copyrighted work. "
    http://hostgator.com/copyright.shtml

  5. universalgeni
    Member

    Wow mark! You are a genius! Lots of applause from here!

  6. talulas
    Member

    great work Mark; so what happened when I reported nearly the same thing. I researched it back to a Houston company site, but hosted on WordPress! And they are back today after I listed them as spam yesterday. Same links as before. Whassup! I know I'm a newbie to blogs; but why should I have to do my own detective work on this! Oh well, I guess i'll just continue deleting them. But it is hard to know what is legit and what is fraud; when you are new to this social system. Just sayin'

  7. dlager
    Member

    Thank you Mark.
    i am so glad to see others are fighting against Splog thefts, also
    I think its time to move my blogger blog to wordpress.com. Just on principle.
    Nothing more to be said, than i see which blog companies have better integrity.

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