Re: OT Social engineering attempt?

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On 17 Dec 2002, Dan Clowater wrote:

>Well I hate to be brash - but that's a stupid question. You definitely
>should report crap like this!
>
>You should report it to yahoo - they will likely want to stop someone
>stealing information pretending to be them.

Done that already.  The report is sitting in their queue and they've 
only responded with a generic "we are dealing with your problem" 
autoresponse.

>
>If that fails - contact the domain sysadministrator - it might be a
>hacked system and the owner does not know about it.
>
That specifically is what I'm asking about the advisability of doing.  
If it's a hacked machine, then yes, it'd be good to let the admin know.  
On the other hand if the admin of that machine is the clever spoofer 
then I'd like someone else to be able to get hold of him before he 
covers his tracks.

Oisin Feeley



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