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Cristian-M β Fake deviantART website
Published: 2009-02-12 17:20:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 9634; Favourites: 52; Downloads: 428
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Description
Maybe you've read articles or journals about attempts to steal your dA username and password.The threat is real and I thought it wouldn't hurt to show what it's all about.
It starts with a comment or a note, which includes a link you are asked to click.
If you click that link, it takes you to a fake deviantART website, which looks a lot like the dA log-in page. There are two important differences:
1. The webpage link showing in the address field, at the top, is "[link] ".
2. The fake dA webpage has a "New Profiles" link besides the "Go" button.
On the real dA login page, the webpage link should start with "[link] " and there's no "New Profiles" link.
Please download the image to see all the details.
Note:
I use Mozilla Firefox as my internet browser and when I clicked the link to the fake dA website, it didn't take me there, instead it showed me a "Reported Web Forgery" message.
When I tried the same link in Internet Explorer, the browser happily took me to the fake dA website.
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Comments: 55
Thank god for Firefox. It happened to me too.
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What has the world come to
Thanks for the info
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I feel like trolling that page for teh lulz
Even though this crap probably already ended
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Lol! Check out this funny video I have of you!!! --> www.youutubee.com <--
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this happened to me not so long ago but since iaready saw this message i wasnt so stupid
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this is why i hav devaint at as one of my fav tabs so i can click and always go to thereal devaint art
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Thank you for the information I feel alot better its kinda funny how there's a fake da page~ Lolz but thank you once again XD
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Ha fail big time yeah i ran into
it
but sense it was not my normal
link to the page i decided to go back and
into my files to get the real link that
i saved a while back.
i was not aware that it was a fake page
i just felt safer folling the link i saved so i did.
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As soon as I clicked on this, before even reading, it looked really suspicious 
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I have seen messages like this before on other deviants' pages, and wondered what it was. Now, I know not to click there if I was to get one of these, thanks for posting this.
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Makes me so glad I use firefox 
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This is really cool=] Thanks. I myself actually use Firefox, so I guess I didn't really need thisX]
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Everyone who reads my journal...
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Opera also says it is a reported fraud.
I don't understand Microsoft; it's almost as if they went out of their way to make things vulnerable and non-functional. There is no way this can be profitable. So far, even though it causes problems for Internet Exploder users, I have refused to make the HTML version of The Crud Factory the default, even though the XML version doesn't have any extra features.
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I know not to click on the link! Good to know what it's all about and be prepared, though.
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Thank you for that Cristian its a great Help.
I have not had that happen to me yet..
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Lol, there's actually a fake dA page..hahahaha xD
but thanks for the info ^^
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Merci beaucoup pour l'information Cristian! Je vais Γͺtre trΓ¨s vigilante...
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Thank you so much for posting this important information!
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I've experienced that and changed my password. I appreciate you doing this
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It's the least I can do for my dA friends!
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Thanks for showing that-I haven't got anything like that ...yet.
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Thanks muchly for pointing out the differences.
That in particular hasn't happened, but I definitely keep it in mind.
I have had my VS mistakenly tell my gallery was a "maliciouos page" a couple of times....
I've also ended up on some strangley redirected pages after just trying to view some deviations couple of times in the last few of weeks.
Oddly, backtracking & clicking the same links didn't re-create the error, so it's not something I could even report.
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good work, Cristian!
I've just updated my journal phishing info with thumbnail to your screenshots. thanks for sharing!
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Thanks, Adam!
I'll follow your advice and I'll send a note to people whose names show up in the fake comments.
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I've also found this advice (about noting affected people) in someone's journal/news (do not remember 
the sooner they will clean/fix their sccounts/pc's, the better for everybody
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Knowing this info, I'll pay extra attention! Thanks!
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its funny that we all have a new (ugly) look on our sites and its a "great new look" and we dont have safety and security on DA
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Not just ugly, but hard to use. For example, I have no idea how dA selects which watch (largely unrelated) thumbnails to put on my screen. It's a sad joke.
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i clicked it once with firefox and i got the page. it was before the news was spread anyway. never tried with IE...
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hehe yes, Firefox rules defenitly, I was confused when i saw it the first time, and it appeared subspicous to me, yet i still clicked it because i didnt know about ita nd it came from a good friend^^ lucky me I saw that message too and knew all about it XD
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