UPDATED SCAM LINKS.
I received today a seemingly legitimate email from YOUTUBE stating that my video has been approved. Its good of them to let me know, the only problem was that I never asked for a video to be approved.
So investigating things a little bit further, it became obvious that the youtube link they send me to click on for further details was not directing to youtube, but to an online drug/medicine store.
Perhaps it may even direct to a fake youtube webpage.
in which case would be a CLASSIC PHISING SCAM so
DO NOT ENTER YOUR DETAILS IN THESE LINKS!
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http://thaifloraldishartist.com/pursue.html
http://hsanghaniservices.com/worries.html
http://fcsotomasyon.com/socioeconomic.html
http://sks.yyu.edu.tr/microseconds.html
http://jashingltd.com/ail.html
http://www.mediaoffice.com.ar/confrontation.html
http://thecr.org/evolutions.html
http://post04.pheno.com/console.html
http://80.109.240.73/~01090410/recessive.html
http://amaseffer.com/retransmitted.html
http://sem.mcenjoy.cz/reliever.html
http://mikalpate.com/enumerate.html
http://mikalpate.com/enumerate.html
http://61.47.35.49/~riverlight/structure.html
the message seems to originate from
YouTube Service service@youtube.com
YouTube Service has sent you a message:
Your video has been approved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J32jZpDV&feature=topvideos_mp
Your video has been approved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J32jZpDV&feature=topvideos_mp
You can reply to this message by visiting your inbox.
© 2011 YouTube, LLC
901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066s
UPDATE:
Now they send scam emails claiming Youtube send a message
help center | e-mail options | report spam
YouTube Service has sent you a message:
Your video on the TOP of YouTube
To:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqOM1jKltaPs&feature=topvideos_mp
You can reply to this message by visiting your inbox.
© 2012 YouTube, LLC
901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066
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http://appelenspel.com/buttermilk.html
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http://www.deejayshark.de/reticulation.html
http://sp-moulding.com.pl/reliability.html
http://acsoftbiz2.net/dippings.html
http://peteruijen.nl/superego.html
http://198.106.109.144/invading.html
http://golestangis.ir/marker.html
http://221.143.46.33/~ymerecord/unifying.html
http://61.19.249.89/~lohispeed/mccabe.html
http://198.65.44.14/caviness.html
http://www.adm-ahtuba.astranet.ru/pestilence.html
http://taifgostar.com/anticompetitive.html
http://203.150.225.61/~plantoys/animateness.html
http://ballarte.com/trustworthy.html
http://200.196.254.27/matchings.html
http://kalfazade.com.tr/seconder.html
I just received the exact email message. I did see it opened up to a drugstore page. I just kindly closed the page and deleted the email.
ReplyDeletefunny thing is that I have received it a few times over the last few days.
ReplyDeletethey must be working overtime...
I just received one, however they must be now changing it up.. this one was stating that my order from Amazon was cancelled.... I don't have an Amazon account.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, they use AMAZON now for the same thing. I got another post for that one. Thanks for the heads up
ReplyDeleteThanks for the information. Good public service blog.
ReplyDeleteI feel like such an idiot for falling for this thing, but I did - I clicked on the link in the email which opened up a browser window for adult videos. I closed the window too quickly to see what it was all about, but my concern is this:
ReplyDeleteWhen you erroneously open their page, are they uploading anything malicious to my machine? I'm on a mac, so I generally don't worry too much about malware. But it's not impossible, so I'm concerned if I've inadvertently infected my machine.
thanks Stuart
ReplyDelete@ Unknown
ReplyDeleteI do not know. It is possible to upload malicious software on your machine but I have not tried to find out.
Having a mac doesn't make you safe from malicious stuff as a recent mac related incident showed.
All I can say is that you should use an antivirus - antispam software to check things out