AOL Instakiss password scam

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

I received another spam scam, this one claiming that someone had sent me an AOL Instakiss and offering a link to find out who. The linked page purports to be an AOL page and asks for a user name and pass word. Well, AOL constantly remiinds you not to give out your password and, of course, since I’m already online on my aol account, why would my password be needed?

Obviously a password harvesting scam. I noticed, though, that the scammer’s url starts out as http://www.members.aol.com/xxxxx/xxxxxxx/, so this person has set up their scam as a page on an aol account, to give it an appearance of legitimacy.

I reported it to aol a week ago, but it’s still there.

2

I am no longer on AOL but I got one like that, too, some time ago. I forwarded it on to the Powers That Be but never thought to check if it was still up later.

For kicks I made up a name and password to see what it does.

3

I did, too. It kust passed me off to an AOL matchmaker site.

4

I reported it to AOL two weeks ago, and it’s still there.

5

I used to report that to AOL all the time before I got rid of AOL last October, and it’s still there.