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binarystep — The Spambot (PSA)
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Published: 2013-08-18 20:43:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 226; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 0
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A comic I made illustrating the fat that spambots can hack accounts to use for their own nefarious purposes. If you click a link in a spambot's comment, and it takes you to a page where you "log in to deviantART", DO NOT log in. That gives the spambot your username + password.Sorry if the quality's crappy, my scanner kinda sucks.
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Yeah, it's called phishing. It's a typical internet jew trick, very common.
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That's true, but you might want to be clear that hackers are the original creators of the spam bots. ^^ From what I know, spam bots are created using some sort of application you can download to your computer. The first spammers that spread the Keyloggers or phishing scams are generally not hacked accounts. They are created just to spam, then real people fall for the scams, and they are infected. If they are prompted to "log in" to deviantART when they click on the link, that is a "phishing" scam. If they are sent to a virus download or suspicious looking page (like the .tk pages), then that is usually the download of a "keylogger". The keylogger collects your keystrokes when you log into anything anywhere online and the information is then sent to the hacker, and they take over your account, using that application I mentioned before to make you spam.
Sorry if that was wordy! ^^ I love your comic! xD I hope my explanation helps!
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I thought that was made clear in my drawing, but thanks!
Your explanation does help, very much so.
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Your drawing does explain it very well, but your description was a bit confusing.
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I see. Thanks for the advice!
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