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Flickr took the emails out of my email box automatically .....
That means they are working on it...
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***EVERYONE WHO HAS RECEIVED MESSAGES ACCUSING THEM OF POSTING PORN OR OF ACCUSING SOMEONE OF BEING A PAEDOPHILE..............PLEASE READ THROUGH THIS DISCUSSION !!!!
Your account has not been hijacked as a result of any of this.
You have done nothing wrong.
Flickr knows you have done nothing wrong.
Please ignore any threats of being reported to any authorities.
The owner of the account(s) have not blocked you, it is the 'person' who has hijacked their accounts that is likely doing so.
The owners are almost certainly an innocent party in this.
Please calm down and don't worry :-))
***Not shouting....just trying to get your attention ;-)
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I have received the same or similar e-mails. All sent at 7:34 on Sept 18th. I am also accused of leaving insulting comments or accusing them of being pedophiles. I have left them in my inbox for further investigation but I would appreciate an update as to what one can do for this not to happen again.
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Good news Wayne :)
Angria, read all of this thread and you will see that it is happening to many of us. Looks like flickr staff are on top of it :)
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Folks- I think we got this batch of guff scrubbed from your FlickrMail.
No one is really accusing you of anything, rest assured- we know this is bogus. What is happening is someone who has been able to steal user IDs and passwords to log in and send this junk.
How are they getting IDs and passwords? Please read this about phishing.
In a nutshell, someone visits a website outside of Flickr and is tricked to entering their ID and password, which is then recorded by the phisher. In some rarer cases they may install a backdoor application to record the same. They then use that ID and password to login to that account on Flickr and send these disturbing messages.
We'd love to be able to say we can prevent this 100% of the time, but the reality is that it is easy to fall prey for people to get tricked by these scams and hand over their ID and password. Dealing with this is an ongoing issue and we take this assault on the Flickr Community very seriously and are sorry that this has happened to you.
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Whoops, I deleted the 3 emails I had received, I didn't even want to leave them there or see them.
So - since the user's haven't actually blocked me, why doesn't it give me the ability to comment on their photos? Seems like I've been fully blocked. You think the people who are sending out the emails have the ability to do that?
Craziness.
Update Kevin: So, all we have to do is change our passwords to stop it for now? :o)
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PS- we do see the Report Abuse cases that have been sent in- we'll be following up with responses to those later today.
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The same thing just happened to me - I received 3 messages saying that the member was going to call the cops and another accusing me of posting porn on their photo - I never even went to that member's stream.
When I tried to reply to the message - my email was blocked.
I do not need this kind of thing happening to my account - I never post porn images and never will - I need to be assured that my account is not compromised and that I am not going to be accused of this type of activity again.
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Good job Kevin :):)
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I have never given my ID or Password to any internet site outside of Flickr - there is a security breech and something needs to be done or soon we will have our account seriously compromised.
The Flickr folks need to see if anyone is posting photos with malicious code attached - there may be a trojan horse type of thing being done via this community - where a photo is presented on someone's computer and it has code that runs in the background to install something on the users pc. This could be very bad news!
Help us all by thoroughly checking this out Please!
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Thanks so much! Greatly appreciated :O)
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Hi Ray- Please take a moment re-read my post again if you can- it's the people who own the accounts that the email came from which is the problem- they are the ones that followed the bogus links and dropped their ID and passwords.
These are not malicious trojans attached to image files or code embedded in Flickr- they are simple offsite links left on photopages which encourage people to visit a fake award site or somewhere for "private photos" that then ask them to enter in ID and passwords- we know about these links, and we clean Flickr of them when they are reported to us.
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OK Whew - I was freaked out by this....
thanks
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Ahh - glad I was pointed in the direction of this thread - this happened to me too as well today.
I got three different messages, but they all have been mentioned word by word in this thread, so it is obviously the same thing that is going on.
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Glad that I read that .. I had 3 flickr mails from different people with threats when I opened my account today :(
I deleted them immediately .. but will report next time. Thanks for the explanations !
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i got another one saying they reported me to flickr !!
when is this going to end they have got to stop this!! flickr staff you have to do something about this!! please thank you!!
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Agree,have the same problems!Have send flickr staff a mail with my story!!
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Thanks.
I’m glad I’m not the only one.
I hope it is not going to affect my contacts
and/or members of five groups I administer (?!?)…
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i have been geting these adminsters who accuse me of just leaveing the comment code with the photo and not commenting on it when i do !! they send me these warnings that they are going banned me or remove me from their group if i do that again!!
must be that they have control over some of these adminsters accountes and are sending these false group warnings out things like that !! im tied of being fasely accused of this !! so i quite the group in qwestion !! cause this persons accounte could be compermised !!
these has to stop flickr staff im tired of geting these flickr mails and im tired of being fasely accused !! do hope you can do someing aboute this sooner then later bye!! and thank you!!
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I, too, received three Flickr mails with horrible accusations. I cannot tell you how upset I was. Another of my wonderful Flickr friends helped me through this mess. The 3 messages were automatically removed. I'm wondering if I should post the three 'supposed' Flickr members that sent these messages? I checked and they have blocked me even though I can get in to see their site, but cannot send them Flickr Mail. Should these names be made public, or are these folks innocent bystanders?
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They're innocent bystanders; check out the announcement at the top of the page - the accounts that sent you the FlickrMails are being used by people other than the owners.
If you post their account details, they'll receive a flood of abusive FlickrMails, when they haven't done anything wrong. The same thing happened to a Flickr firend of mine a few months ago - she was so upset by the nasty e-mails that she immediately deleted her account, and won't come back...
But, it's great that you asked before posting their details - a lot of people wouldn't have...
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They're innocent bystanders; check out the announcement at the top of the page - the accounts that sent you the FlickrMails are being used by people other than the owners.
It doesn't help that yahoo tends to require you to keep entering your password all the time. Once your used to that another Enter your details here page is nothing out-of-the-ordinary.
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I must be charmed then Walwyn, as I can't remember the last time I had to enter my password, I just never sign out, makes life far easier :)
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If all you use is flickr everything is fine. If you use any of the other yahoo stuff, you can be asked for log in details all the time, and your yahooID is your flickrID
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I received some mails with a very strange content. This happened in the past and you solved this problem. I will transcribe the mails I received and I hope you can solve it as soon as possible.
From: [removed by admin]
Subject: Just to let you know..
You have been reported to flickr..
From: [removed by admin]
Subject: A Warning.
Do that again and i will call the cops..
From: [removed by admin]
Subject: What?.
I Don\\\'t get the mail you just sent me, are you trying to call me a pedophile?.
From: [removed by admin]
Subject: Excuse me?.
Why did you post pornograpgic images on my photo?.
Until now these were the strange mails I received.
Once again I hope you solve this situayion as soon as possible.
My best regards,
Rui Palha
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See above. These are from users whose accounts have been phished. It does not indicate that your own account has been compromised. Use the 'Report abuse' link, which will help staff to mop up this unpleasant incident.
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Thank you Michael, I did it, too.
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Ok, I think we have the last several incidents that were reported taken care of.
A reminder again- please do not post the identifying information about who sent you these messages to the Forum here. Please use Report Abuse (link at the bottom of the page) and give us the specific information there. The members who the messages appear to be from actually are not the ones sending you the messages.
Those of you who got these, please do understand we do not in any way believe you are sending these.
Also, please read my post here on this issue (which is above in this page).
Thank you
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Thank you, Kevin, I understand you.
Excuse me to put the names here in this forum, I believe that was a misundertanding and some pishing work.
Next time it happens I will report through abuse.
Thank you for your reply and explanation.
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This happened to me, today, as well -- three different emails, sent from different IDs, all sent at 12:34 pm 20 September 2007.
It's quite distressing to receive messages like these (and, worse, not be able to reply to them), but I'm glad to know that the Flickr staff knows what's really going on.
It *would* help if it were easier to report.
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LooknFeel - um, all you have to do is click "Report Abuse" (at the bottom of the page) when viewing the email, and send off a report to staff.
I don't think it *could* be any easier.
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Yes, me to and couple of my friends, as terrible as it sounds I am glad is not just me....
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I too received 3 of these horrible mails. I hope flickr will solve it fast and give us the real explanation.
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"................ I hope flickr will solve it fast and give us the real explanation. "
Did you actually read any of this discussion apart from the posts from those, like yourself, that received the messages ?
Please read the very first post with a link to a staff member's explanation as to what has happened.
Along with many more explanations as to what is happening.
It is not the fault of Flickr, but that of innocent parties being duped into handing over their account sign in details.
And it is the real explanation.......really.
It has happened before and will very likely happen again.
It's not nice, I know. But this current rash of hijacking will be sorted out soon. Until the next time ;-)
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I'm sorry, Stevekin, if it sounded like I was accusing flickr, did not mean to. English is not my native language.
What I wanted to say was, I hope this problem on flickr will be solved fast. And that a final explanation would be given.
Actually I did read every single part of this discussion thoroughly, and there were many suggestions along the line. So I wasn't sure if the explanation in the very first post was the real final explanation.
I am very fond of flickr and all the wonderful people here. Let's keep it a good place to share photos and positive thinking:)
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I guess it's easier to understand and accept the explanations when it has happened here before ;-)
I agree.....let's keep it happy and positive :-)
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a BIG BIG BIG Thank you to Kevin for helping me outta this mess... I have a vauge recollection of seeing that stupid thing...(on one of my photos I think?? I think I deleted the comment...)
anyway...a big thanks for sorting it all out...
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I have Been geting more of this flickr spam emails again with new flickr accountes that has been hacket !! They say the same dame thing!! This has to stop!!
And they keep blocking me!!! what is been done!!
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Just got my four emails and reported them.
Even though I know what's going on, it's a bit of a jolt to get these. Thanks for taking care of this, guys.
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You too eh?
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i reported them!! too again this his to stop big time!!
no one is beliveing any of these flickr mail spam!! there all fake!!
they block your accounte there just trying to scare you all!!
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I had mine as well. Guess the hacker reads the forum.
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Guess the hacker reads the forum.
And is probably laughing at everyone's reactions. :/
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I should be used to it by now, but it still jars on me that a criminal like that is called hacker. Real hackers are quite a different type of people.
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Call it a script kiddie then, they hate that.
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This just happened to me...4 emails all from separate people saying I had posted porn or accused them of being paedophiles it really upset me. I wish it hadnt happened. The emails in my inbox then just magically dissappeared.... when I think more about it now...the 4 emails were all sent at exactly the same time...
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i recived more of them flickr mail email spams like about 4 !! who deleted them??
they dissappeared right any ?? did flickr staff delete them or what???
this has to stop!
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Yes Andrew...Flickr staff will have deleted them.
One more time. Don't worry, your account is safe. It's only the ones that are sending those messages who have had their accounts hijacked.
Just give staff time to clear everything up and get those accounts back in the hands of the genuine, innocent owners :)
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ok i keep geting them now there pro accountes !! i see if you don't block them back they keep on comeing back more and more!!
flickr staff needs to do something about it big time !! im tired of these they have to stop sending me these flickr mails i have read ever one of them flickr email spams and i don't believe any of them becuase they are fake!!
can flickr staff shut off my flickr mail or what??? that would be great!!!
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I give up :[
Anyone else ?
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i understand were your comeing with this my friend!!
but when it happends over and over again !! it gets old and quick!!
i came here on flickr to share my work with other flickr members and make new friends along the way!!
but i did not sign up for these!! this is yahoo owned !!
so why can't they 100% make the site safe???!! why???
most of them are free accountes and if some one is blocking you then they should'nt be able to send you flickr mail !! that's another thing!!
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It is not Flickr or Yahoo that is 'letting' it happen Andrew.
It is the owners that have, one way or another, 'handed' over their sign in details (to their Flickr accounts).
They didn't mean to, they were phished.
There really isn't a lot Flickr or Yahoo can do to legislate for someone who hands their info over, innocently or not.
If accounts are being set up by ne'er do wells to send stuff like this, then that is something Flickr can do something about. Terminate the accounts as soon as they become aware of them.
And a lot of that depends on 'us' being vigilant and reporting wrong doings.
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It should be simple:
Andrew you know the messages are spam and that they'll be deleted by staff in a little time, don't you? Then don't read them!
If you go to your FlickrMail and see them and know them for what they are, then step back and follow with what you were doing. If they reach your external email just delete them.
edit to add: and if you're so pissed off, just block them.
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Andrew - the person doing this is after attention. Probably a big reason why you keep getting more, is they like seeing your reaction. We saw yesterday that the person is definitely reading the forum, and so every time you post here all upset, he probably enjoys it.
Believe me, flickr staff are doing all they can. But you need to stop panicking, and maybe don't check your flickrmail for a while. Every time you come here and post it seems you get more mails. He's doing it to get to you.
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thanks FlyB for directing me here I feel much better about the situation its just a shame that some folk may not be aware of the situation, and the discomfort this may bring them including those of us being accused
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ok thank you all i understand now !! =)
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I agree earthjam (and you're welcome).
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could flickr staff please response to case354429 related to these emails?
i got about 10 of these emails and reported them via the abuse link. after i reported them, my account got locked down. i thought the sender accounts were compromised, not the recipient accounts. unless my original account sent and received the same type of emails? doesn't make sense to me.
since my account was disable and no one has responded to my flickr support help request, i have to create another y! account to post here asking for a response.
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case354429 - just out of curiosity, did you recently click on a link taking you to a "private photo" that you had to log in to see? Besides the accounts this person probably had in holding, there have been a few who've followed a link recently and entered in their login details (to a fake site, unfortunately - flickr would not ask you to re-log in to see private photos) which gave the phisher access.
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nope. i'm not the type who likes to see private photos anyway.
i ran full system scan with symantec antivirus - even in safe mode - and it found nothing on my pc. i also run blackice on my system. so i'm quite confident that my home system has not been compromised. my flickr photostream appears to be in good order. so based on what i know, it is unlikely that my home pc has been compromised. if flickr staff believes that my original account was phished, they should have very good reason(s). it just doesn't make sense to me right now how that is possible.
edit: just to be clear, i don't need my flickr account access to be restored. that's the last thing i want to do. i just need some more info from flickr staff to get to the bottom of this.
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Hi Everyone,
I have received the same emails, four of them, same issues. I'm thankful for this thread.
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It happened to me too.
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I have just received several emails like this too!
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I received this type of email for the first time 7-8 months ago.
At that time, flickr had a mention about this when everyone signed on.
I have the following posted in my groups' discussion pages...
flickr.com/groups/petpics100/discuss/72157600272387468/
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i recived like 4 new messages!! tonight! of flickr spam!!
+ i have been reciveing this to!! in my flickr comments !!
these is very worried!! and its very disturbing !!
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Andrew, I've deactivated their Y! IDs of the compromised accounts. We'll help the legitimate account holders regain access to their accounts.
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thank you staff!! and i recived 4 more flickr mail spams yet again to day i sent a reporte abuse on it like what happend and also got a new worried image today in my comments and every accounte has blocket me!! i think my block count is like to 90+!! because of all of these e mail spams!!
and i know a lote of my contacts and friends have been recieving the same thing to!! i hope one day this can go away!! and finally end!!
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Oh I´m so relieved this is only spams...For God sakes!!!
But in the other hand THIS HAS TO STOP!
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Danielle, Unfortunately, as long as members turn over their login credentials (Y! ID and password), it won't.
Please share this FAQ with one and all:
www.flickr.com/help/website/#236
Educating members is the best way to stop this.
I've deactivated the Y! IDs of the 4 accounts that have been compromised. We'll work with them to regain access to their accunts.
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I was hacked this morning, and got mails that ive been reported for comments and mails i didnt send. i just hope i dont get deleted.
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this is the second time this has happened to me...
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I just got 4 emails saying I left innapropriate images on these people's streams and have been blocked. I hope this is being looked into.
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Just be sure to use "Report Abuse" on each of those message pages.
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This happened to me this morning. I am disgusted. This is a pathetic joke. Andrew, I also received that picture like a week ago on like 5 of my pictures. I just deleted it. Didn't think anything of it. It didn't take you anywhere outside of flickr though so I don't know what it's all about.
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I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING
BUT I HAVEN’T SENT MAILS ABOUT PORNOHGRAPHY.
I HAVEN’T DONE ANYTHING
IT WASN’T ME
what I must do to stop this situation!
Please help me.
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♥ Sweet Princes ☮ Use the Report Abuse link at the bottom of every page.
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It happened to me too!!
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P.S. Also big THANKS to the Flickr staff for assuring us all that it's all taken care of:) I'm still going to change my password though, just to be on the safe side.
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I just got 4 of them and I have been very afraid I was in trouble. Glad to read this is not happening. I have the emails so I will be happy to do whatever I can to stop this from happening! Thank you!!!
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I have also just received 4 emails, with the same content by the sounds of it. Sighh.
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i got 3 more flickr e mail spams again !! and every accounte blocket me!! and yes i did recive a new photo in my comments again too!!!
when is these going to stop!! i mean has'nt these gone on way to long!! some people believe it but i do not at all!! i just dont read them flickr email spams all i do is just block the user and then just reporte it to flickr !!
if any of you recive these flickr e mail spams !! just dont be scared !!
thats what they what you to be is scared!! they are all fake!!!
you did not do anything wrong what so ever the accountes send them have been hacket into!! so the real owner is not sending one beat!!
all you have to do is just reporte it!! thats all ok !!
and these is what i recived in my comments today!
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LandonsMom06, make sure to use another computer to change your password for access to Flickr. Don't use the computer where you got these e-mails that accuse you of any wrongdoings. Also, if you can, do virus and spyware checks on your computer. And like Stevekin says to those being accused, your accounts are safe. I have never received such e-mails myself and hopefully won't. If I get any questionable messages from certain Flickr members, I block those persons. And for non-Flickr members, any questionable e-mail showing up in my GMail inbox gets moved to the Spam folder and then that folder is immediately emptied.
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Hey there,
I have also gotten four e-mails from various people I don't know.
I have reported all four and I am waiting for a reply, I came over here
to say "thank you" to the Flickr Staff for handling this. I know this must
be frustrating to you guys too since you have to clean up after the mess
these people make. You guys ROCK!!
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Hi guys,
I just got the same today, 4 flickrMails from people whom I don't even know accusing me of sending them indecent contents.
Flickr must do something about this!
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Flickr pretty much can't - the accounts being used are those of users whose details were "phished" via clicking on links and entering their account and password details.
How can Flickr stop people doing that?
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Same here, a note to the offenders, we don't need your garbage around here !
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Yep, happened to me too. Same four exact emails. All blocked replies.
I'm wondering if the blocking is a two prong approach for them to keep the infected users ignorant of the fact, and also to phish more user accounts using those replies.
Anyway, thought I'd report it here as well as to "Report Abuse".
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Sadly, users who hand over their login details and passwords to phishers are the problem, and it's leading to distressing results for innocent people like Wingdingo and others.
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Ths just happened to me -- and I know I haven't responed to any phishers. So not sure that the users are at fault, here. Seems to be a pretty broad problem.
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I just received the same 4 emails and have reported the abuse.
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I just received 4 of those mails too.
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Reading through some of the replies here it seems some people still don't understand the nature of the problem.
The accounts that are sending the mails are the ones that have been compromised.
The accounts that are receiving the mails are generally safe, at least as far as just receiving a mail is concerned, obviously I cannot comment on any other actions from the users.
Don't panic guys, flickr do as much as they can to sort things out, but the real responsibility lies with you, ensuring you keep your own login details secret...
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Phew... I was freaking out ova here. Too early to be rcieving these types of email!! I changed my password and everything! Ya know, I think I might delete my account. I had to change to friends and family to protect my child and now Im having to worry about crazy people sending me bogus emails?!? Is it really worth it?
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Just happened to me too. Eek! How nasty!
Ok, so I guess the only thing to do is get the word out via my groups and maybe a short blurb at top of my profile page.
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Lynn (Gracie's mom) edited this topic 57 months ago.
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Ok, Addicted to tea, you can do anything you want. But I do believe cancelling your account and leaving flickr would be a little excessive. If you're going to do anything online, you just have to learn how to deal with things like this. Flikr is good at keeping us informed of what to do and not do, and as to what is happening and what they're doing about it. Just my opinion, of course, but I say give flickr a chance. Whatever you run into here, you are entirely likely to run into elsewhere.
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For the record. I've just recently (earlier today 06/10) received four similar messages. Have reported the matter to flickr.
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Glenbourne At Home edited this topic 57 months ago.
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Your right Lynn! I was just annoid.
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ShontellMichelle edited this topic 57 months ago.
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Also, if you can, hide your e-mail address from your profiles just to be safe unless you already have your profiles set to not show your e-mail address.
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Just happend to me too... so disturbing. The same exact emails.
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Is there nothing that can be done to keep porn off flickr? I did a general search for something innocent last evening and a real big collections of hard core porn pictures came up and I nearly got sick as I realised I could have been a child doing a simple search and bang (pardon the pun) there it was, all on show. I've flagged what I could without having to see too much but it ruins one's day!
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