Yesterday, i had a very bad situation, i was online, and i found one of my very old friends came online too. I wanted to say hi and happy Ramadan, and when i was typing, i found in the nick name a message saying that this friend has deleted me !!

I got angry and i found a URL telling me to enter, and know which one of my contact list has blocked/deleted me…

I believe that most of who’s reading this now are laughing and saying “ooh , yess”

any way, -be 7osn neya tamaman- i entered the site, and logged in with my account (mail/password) :S

i found my contact list, but very wrong info. about people deleted/blocked me or even by me..

i didn’t care, and left.

Suddenly i found Ahmed asking why i changed my nick name to this site!!!

cause actually i didn’t, IT’S A PHISHING SITE

I’ve to confess that i had no idea about that, all i knew is Ahmed asking me to change my password IMMEDIATELY and wondering how could i believe and trust such a thing

And I did, after being in so much tense and confusion, i started to figure it out, so i wanted to share my shamed experience with people who doesn’t know about such a thing, so it may help them.

What is phishing?

Phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as user names, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

Phishing is typically carried out by e-mail or instant messaging ,and it often directs users to enter details at a website. Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to fool users.

==> you can know more from here

How can we avoid this?

After this situation, i found out that i could have simply avoided that, by adding a very nice feature to the Firefox, it’s a site advisor add-on, which is used to inform you if the site you are using is safe or is reported as a phishing site.

==> you can download McAfee siteAdvisor -the one i used -

One more thing,

when i entered the site, it asked me to approve the terms and conditions, which of course i did with blind eyes, as a habit …

I found out after that, it was written in Spanish :S

and someone translated it and here what it says…

" The data the user provides HasDoneIt.com are intended to ascertain their areas
of interest and obtain specific profiles for conducting e-mail marketing and direct
marketing. This information will be treated with the utmost privacy, confidentiality
and security in accordance with the current legislation. "

Indeed, I felt so fooled and fraudded , so i hope with this post i can save anyone to fall in the same trap, specially after that site was written in my nick name, and people may have used it because of me

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