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Send an email to all yahoo/msn/hotmail address book?
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:57 pm
by phice
As seen here -
http://mycrazyvideos.com/video_bike_cli ... t_321.html
Appearently you're able to send a message to all of your address book containing said message. Click on one of the two blue icons near the middle of the page that has the yahoo or hotmail icon, and it comes to a form that asks you for your hotmail user/pass and it will send an email to all of your address book contacts with the message about the video.
Any idea on how this works?
Don
Re: Send an email to all yahoo/msn/hotmail address book?
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 6:08 pm
by RobertGonzalez
phice wrote:... it comes to a form that asks you for your hotmail user/pass and it will send an email to all of your address book contacts with the message about the video.
Any idea on how this works?
A better question is why would anyone enter their username and password into the form? How can you be certain they are not using maliciously? It is kind of like that guy that said he had broken the md5 algorithm. He had a form that you could enter an md5 hash and if it could crack it it would return the regular unencoded string. He also had a search box that would allow you to enter a string and it would return the md5 hash of the string so you could find words to test (while at the same time putting into a database so it could be "cracked" later when searched).
I am not sure I would trust something like this.
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 9:49 pm
by phice
I don't care about security as I would never be doing this, but a client wants this to work. I just figured that someone would have had a simple way of doing it.
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:07 pm
by s.dot
I posted a topic similar to this, on how to import address books. Nobody really had the answer. If I figure it out, I'll post in here too.
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:54 pm
by AGISB
I would actually call that 'phishing'
I think the phisher does a really good job if people even find that concept worth copying
