The InstaKiss fuckers are back...

[ResIpsaLoquitor]

Dunno if this issue has been raised before, but I got this e-mail the other day:

Dear AOL member,

There has been a purchase added to your AOL Payment method. This purchase took place at 1-800-FLOWERS.com. If this order was unauthorized and you would like to cancel or review this order, please click here

Below is listed information about your order.
Produce - Chocolate-Covered Strawberries in Velvet Heart Box

Price - $89.99
Shipment Type - 3-5 Day Ground
Shipping and handling - $13.65
Total Price - $103.64

I actually fell for it the first time and clicked on the link. Fortunately, there seemed to be some kind of block on my computer, because I couldn’t access the link, period.

Then I check the address. It wasn’t from 1-800-FLOWERS.com. It was from some AOL username I’ve never seen before. PRANK!

I figure it’s the InstaKiss jerks at it again. Have any other AOL dopers been hit by this yet? I’ve gotten my second one today…bastards. :mad:

[SlickRoenick]

Yeah, i saw that yesterday on Snopes. It seemed like the sort of thing that might have fooled me early enough in the morning.

[Nobody]

Yeah, I got it too. I think AOL automatically placed it in my spam folder (AOL 9.0 has a spam filter and places in coming e-mail that it considers spam into a spam folder) so, after reading it and trying to decide if my wife made an order or if it was a scam, I realized that an order to 1-800-Flowers wouldn’t be billed to an AOL account, so it had to be a fake. So I deleted it.

[Doomtrain]

Sounds like the same thing as the Best Buy scam they were running a few months back.

[World_Eater]

I’m glad I ditched AOL years ago.

That is all

[Nanoda]

For those w/o AOL, and for whom the phrase “InstaKiss” evokes a , AOL owns an e-greeting card service InstaKiss, which some ppl use in fake e-mails to scam people out of AOL passwords.

I was going to say you should thank them for it but I… aw I said it!

[ccwaterback]

I usually play along. I enter my password as “eatshit” or “youfuckingidiot” or something along those lines

[Otto]

I got my first password spam in like eight years yesterday. Ah the nostalgia. Not through AOL, though, thank the good lord I don’t have AOL any longer, from those fake eBay people.

I actually got an AOL password scammer to talk to me in IM once, lo these many years ago. Tried to get him to explain what was so great about AOL that he felt the need to steal passwords. Pretty much he did it because he could. Meh. So much for my study into the human psyche.