Phishing

From Encyclopedia Dramatica

1 AOL Origins
2 Examples
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] AOL Origins

Phishing started as a way hax0rs too young to have jobs stayed on AOL for free after AOL decided to test credit card numbers to see if they're fake so they could exchange warez. AOL users gave out their passwords despite the huge warning on their screen that said, "Remember AOL staff will never ask for your password or billing information."

People used AOHack programs, like AOHell to phish and transfer warez. They also used them to get links to download beta versions of new AOL software, where these people would complain that the new AOL software ran horribly on their older hardware (remember these people couldn't afford to pay for internet access).

Eventually AOL cracked down and phishing moved to AOL Instant Messenger. Phishing on AOL eventually died out when AOL raided all the warez rooms in 1997 in a raid almost as powerful of the one on Habbo Hotel. They also sent a operative called TOSAdvisor around that just randomly hit rooms where people programmed in visual basic and terminated accounts. TOSAdvisor also would set up Q&A sections in chat rooms and the hax0rs would go there and try to interview him on abuses about AOL--but this resulted in a terminated account. AOL users, of course, would call AOL and reactivate their account, but keep the same password so the hax0r could use it again the next week. Using phishes also had the disadvantage that if your phish was online you couldn't be online, and if your phish tried to logon when you were online, you were busted so the best phishes rarely used AOL.

Eventually people who knew the internet was serious business learned of it and used phishing to make actual money. Now phishing is a technique used by haxxorz to gain credit card details from gullible n00bs. Most phishing attempts are sent via email. Since phishers are criminal masterminds who use sophisticated scams, only the most clever avoid their clutches by deleting their spam, instead of answering it.

[edit] Examples

Hello. I am the widowed orphan of George Simpson, deceased ruler of the known universe. I have twelve billion dollars in illegally obtained latinum from his plundering. I have heard you are a good and honest person. Please send me your bank account number and I will give you 3000% of the money because I really like you.
Greetings. I am Jesus and you know you love me. Please send me your bank account number so I can deposit your heavenly reward now, while you can still spend it at Sears.
Hi there! A mutual friend told me you are interested in fun and games. I am a sexy coed who enjoys pole dancing, casual relationships, and giving blow jobs. Send me your bank account number so I know I can trust you and I will meet you at Harry's Sex Club this Friday! See ya' there, big boy!
Let me tell you something that is on most girls minds but they won't tell you that size maters or will they?

I am telling you this because it is the honest truth, look I should know, they say that it is all in the way you use it, not how big it is, well I got news for you all, that is pure lies. I know from personal experience, I will tell you about a secret that shaun has made me promise to never ever tell anyone, but since he has not called me in three weeks after standing me up, I am going to break the promise and tell you how he went from having a tiny wang and in 4 months he is now about nine inches and get this, it is still getting bigger. He has been secretly taking grow pills from this site, copy and paste the address into your browser to see them. JSWALK.COM I found out when I was at his house, three fridays ago, we were getting ready to go to the mall, so while he was in the shower, I went in his room, sneeked under his bed and found a box with pill bottles in it, there was like 9 full bottles and 4 empty ones, all ordered from JSWALK.COM I was laughing at first but then when he came in the room and caught me looking at them, he freaked out and made me sware to not ever tell anyone about them, especially girls from school or work that he has been dating for the past while, now that I think of it, he has been rather busy with all the popular girls around here, when just last year he was the shyest when it came to girls. I just never put two and two together until he explained it all to me, I did see his prick and yes, it is huge, pronostar huge, the thickest and longest one I ever seen. I know this sounds really shallow, but I am considering ordering 6 bottles from the website at JSWALK.COM for you know who.. he does not have a myspace account, so he is not gonna see this. They guarentee that the pills will work on any man, or they give you your money back, living proof that they do work on any guy, seeing is believing.