DUers--help ASAP. Someone is using my username and it isn't me.

[blondeatlast]

I think you all know me by now--I don't post monosllabic nonsense. They've posted in GD and the Women's Forum--I wasn't even home at the time.

My son has NO access to my computer, either, and wouldn't do this anyway.

It's not me, and I'm scared. I've alerted and contacted the Admins already, but i'm shaking.

Help.

[Guava Jelly]

1. Change your password pronto

would be my advice
Try changing it every other day for a few weeks

[blondeatlast]

2. Good advice. I'm literally shaking here. nt

[DS1]

7. Why?

[blondeatlast]

8. I have no idea how they managed it.

Maybe I'm overreacting, but it's still scary.

Shouldn't I be?

[DS1]

9. Shaking, no.

It'll get worked out.

[Deja Q]

3. How'd they get it?

Did you go to a site that phishes info from your computer? (I hate cookies and they're the easiest to get)

Personal friend who isn't one?

I agree, change the p/w first.

[NightWatcher]

4. and be careful that you are actually on DU

I tried to log onto myspace and accidentally typed "myslace" -note the "L". The website was all to ready to take my password. I didnt log on, but several of these password clones look almost like the real thing.

[blondeatlast]

5. I go from bookmarks. Thanks for all the advice--I've changed the p-word and from now on

will log out.

:scared:

[Critters2]

10. Yeah, I nearly got hooked into a paypal-clone site.

One must be careful.

[blondeatlast]

6. Here are the posts I know aren't mine:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=992214&mesg_id=995507
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=992214&mesg_id=995482
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=325&topic_id=1257&mesg_id=1291

[greatauntoftriplets]

22. How creepy.

None of those sound AT ALL like you. They are in no way your posting style.

Excellent advice about changing the password. Definitely get a response from Skinner or one of the other admin, because I am certain they can investigate and figure out who did it.

Good luck.

:hi:

[Downtown Hound]

27. Judging by those posts it sounds like a 12-year old.

Or it could be a freeper, they have the same level of intelligence and maturity, you know.

[salin]

31. freaky... and clearly not yours

as long as I have read your posts you have never written anything like that. But - creepy that someone could do that.

[Kali]

41. last one was deleted (mods on the job already?)

but it sure looks like a kid - is there one in your house?

[TK421]

11. I looked at the posts you listed....it certainly sounds like some

PIMPLY FACED, PRE-PUBESCENT FUCKER WHO HANGS OUT AT MOMMY AND DADDY'S COMPUTER... ( hint,hint )

Changing your password is recommended ( these hacker-fucks have absolutely NO life ) but I'm afraid it may take more than one password change until you identify just where they phished your password from. I absolutely HATE these people, and they need to frigging die!

Someone phished my MySpace password a month ago and posted bulletins for free Playstation 3 consoles. I have had their filthy accounts NUKED

[DS1]

13. The phone calls are coming from within your house!

GET OUT! GET OUT NOW!

[TK421]

17. I was ready to head out the door, until I saw who this post was from

and then I said to myself " Oh, shit....I guess I'll just have another gin and tonic, fuck them".

How are you? :D

[DS1]

23. I'm decent, you?

Internet was down for about 30 minutes, I'll have to check MyDU to make sure nobody was posting with my name

:hi:

[TK421]

25. Wow...you can really be paranoid sometimes, you know that?

I'm fine, except I'm still nursing this damn ankle ( I broke it a couple of months ago ). Now it's infected, and I'm limping around like a cripple. Other than that, everything is just peachy

[DS1]

26. No, I've never heard that.

Who else has been saying this about me? :scared:

[snowbear]

38. Ok... this reply is just too HILARIOUS !!!

~~~~

[Lex]

12. Do you only post on DU from one computer?

Or have you logged on DU from computers at work or somewhere else?

Seems like someone either has gotten on your computer where you were already logged in, or somehow obtained your password.

[blondeatlast]

14. Only the one I'm typing on now.

I've read DU at work but never logged on from there, not once.

[Lex]

18. Good, I think that means that your work computer hasn't memorized

your password because you've never logged in to DU from that computer.

So either someone logged in from your home computer (where your password was saved already) or someone obtained your password AND screenname and logged in from another computer elsewhere.

[LanternWaste]

15. you're NOT making lasagna for me tonight?

So the PM I received from you is NOT real and you're NOT making lasagna for me tonight? Dagnabbit!

On a serious note: the posts seem somewhat innocuous and... well, juvenile. So if nothing else, I think we can assume that whoever is doing this isn't forcing a vendetta. But you did the safe thing and alerted the mods. My money's on a fifteen year old somewhere whose political affiliation is to the left of Dude and to the right of Blunt...

[blondeatlast]

19. Well, it would've been veggie burgers on the new bbq--but the

effers still haven't come to install it...

[blondeatlast]

16. Thanks for the replies, support, etc. I think anyone who would have seen these posts in passing

would know it isn't the real me (I hope...) :shrug:

BTW--now I'm LAUGHING thanks to DS1, TK421, and LanternWaste. Damn you all (:hug:)

[SPKrazy]

20. Hmmm, well you changed your password

and i'd clean my cookies and cache, or even use something like CC Cleaner http://ccleaner.com/
http://www.download-ccleaner.com/

you'll have to log back on to things and it will wipe your cookies and the history, etc.

It's what I'd do.

especially if you are freaked that someone maybe remotely accessing or something from you.

Does anyone else have access to your computer, or used it even briefly and had enough time to put a keylogger or something on it?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. Good advice...

It could be that someone's just guessed your password; but I think it's more likely that someone's hacked your 'puter.

You might want to check bank accounts, etc, to make sure they haven't gone farther than DU.

I'm so sorry! :hug:

[LeftyMom]

24. That happened to me once, when my 5 y/o got ahold of my laptop

I was swiftly alerted by a cell phone call from another DUer, and I caught the little brat red handed.

Sounds like you've got something a bit less amusing going on, but here's hoping it's as easily resolved.

[LSK]

28. i remember that one, that post got numerous replies here

:rofl:

[LeftyMom]

30. I think he posted

"k" and "hi"

and then flvegan called to ask me what the hell I was on, we figured out what was up and I took the laptop away from my son. :rofl:

[blondeatlast]

32. That's funny! Since my son and I were both out of the house at the time,

I think that doesn't apply here.

It seems that my evil twin has gone to beddy-bye.

[idgiehkt]

29. man I hate I missed that...

is there a link to that post? :rofl:

[LynzM]

33. Do you ever log into computers other than the one you're on right now?

If that computer was set up right, you could still be logged in someplace else. Changing your password should fix that, if that's the only problem. :hug:

[libodem]

34. Rut Ro

I can see how it could happen. I was just over at my friends' house and checked the news at DU on their laptop. I was already logged in. And I thought rut ro anybody could be posting over here in my name. Logged out now, BTW.

[Pale Blue Dot]

35. You suck!

You suck.

:D

[havocmom]

36. I recall a time when a mod turned out to be a ::gasp:: freeper

Wonder if we need to interrogate them all }( ya know, just to make sure they are all on the up & up

[SPKrazy]

37. prolly so

i think we should start with that Heidi one, ya know, she isn't even in the country here. that might be anyone in the world. :D

[havocmom]

39. I 'spose you have some particular form of torture all thunked up?

;)

I keep hoping for the day Redstone dons the Crest of the Mods. THAT would be like the scene in the movie Tombstone where Earp calls down the vengeance of hell :rofl:

[SPKrazy]

40. Well I wuz thinking that

waterboarding sounded like it worked for Gonzo and Co.

:shrug:




although I don't quite get how it works as torture :rofl: