Chris' email hacked by scammers

[CalmMyTits]

To be honest, leaving the state is not that big of a deal for some people. If all your family lives in one state, especially if you're a country-type folk, it's not such a stretch to imagine never leaving the state you were born in. For a person like Chris, not leaving the state doesn't make much of a difference in his life. One trip was to see his brother and the other was because of a troll. A person like Chris just wouldn't appreciate the things you can learn from visiting a new place. i've never been out of the country, but I've been to various cool places like Los Angeles, Madison, and New Orleans and enjoyed the flavor of these places, and learned from them. Chris wouldn't, he would just look for the nearest McD's, park himself with all his iCrap, and expect a local/native boyfriend-free girl to approach him.

 

[milkshark]

What a fag. Carrying a laptop is the greatest because you always have a computer and It gives you an excuse to carry a murse that you can fill with manly shit like extra bullets for your handgun and your corncob pipe and a space blanket and shit.

I doubt it was a high-end laptop, someone tossed Chris their old shit that most likely ran hot, had a noisy fan, barely held a charge in the battery and chugged along with very little memory. Keep in mind Chris is used to high end electronics. His iPhone is ideal, the idiot loves using handheld devices to do things that you could do less awkwardly on a full sized device. That's the ONLY reason I can offer up for Chris not yet owning a tablet or iPad: He doesn't want it. If he did, surely he'd have blown an entire month of tugboat cash on a fancy tablet to play Simpsons Tapped Out on.

 

[timtommy]

I doubt it was a high-end laptop, someone tossed Chris their old shit that most likely ran hot, had a noisy fan, barely held a charge in the battery and chugged along with very little memory. Keep in mind Chris is used to high end electronics. His iPhone is ideal, the idiot loves using handheld devices to do things that you could do less awkwardly on a full sized device. That's the ONLY reason I can offer up for Chris not yet owning a tablet or iPad: He doesn't want it. If he did, surely he'd have blown an entire month of tugboat cash on a fancy tablet to play Simpsons Tapped Out on.

So the reason he doesn't buy an IPad is that he doesn't want one? Isn't that a bit of a truism?

Chris has always struck me as avoiding computers in an odd way, especially considering how much he loves computer-like devices. He seemed to do a lot of his internetting through the PS3. I don't own a PS3, but it seems like an inefficient way of doing things. He used a PSeye for videos instead of a webcam. IIRC, a fan once sent him a PC game, and he got a little whiny about how he didn't play PC games and it should have been a console game.

So he seems to consistently avoid computers. Maybe he finds them too complex?

 

[Kosher Dill]

So the reason he doesn't buy an IPad is that he doesn't want one? Isn't that a bit of a truism?

It's as opposed to "practical" reasons like not being able to afford one, not knowing what an Ipad is, not being allowed out of the house, etc.

 

[Francine StripeCheer]

To be honest, leaving the state is not that big of a deal for some people. If all your family lives in one state, especially if you're a country-type folk, it's not such a stretch to imagine never leaving the state you were born in. For a person like Chris, not leaving the state doesn't make much of a difference in his life. One trip was to see his brother and the other was because of a troll. A person like Chris just wouldn't appreciate the things you can learn from visiting a new place. i've never been out of the country, but I've been to various cool places like Los Angeles, Madison, and New Orleans and enjoyed the flavor of these places, and learned from them. Chris wouldn't, he would just look for the nearest McD's, park himself with all his iCrap, and expect a local/native boyfriend-free girl to approach him.

He's also been to D.C. to see MythBusters

 

[A-№1]

I wonder if this is a real scam or some weener. Either way it's pretty lame.

This is a legit scammer, not a weener. I've seen versions of this scam e-mail coming from other hacked email accounts. The scammers may have gotten Chris' email password from a trojan or other malware he downloaded, or Chris could simply have chosen a stupid password. I've seen variations of "sonichu" and "chrischan" in script kiddy brute force login attempts before, so the stupid password option is possible.

To be honest, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often, actually. In theory Chris should be an incredibly easy mark, but somehow has remained relatively unscathed. I suppose Chris probably has the trolls to thank for that; if the trolls hadn't taught him to exercise a little due paranoia online he probably would have fallen victim to the first "nigerian prince" to come his way.

He's also been to D.C. to see MythBusters

That's only 100 miles or so. Hardly a great journey.

What's sad about the Mythbusters trip is he's so close to D.C. He could go there every weekend if he wanted. But does Chris make the journey for the Smithsonian? The monuments? The Air and Space Museum? The National Gallery? The Museum of Natural History? Or any of the other really cool (also free) things to do in D.C.?

No.

He goes for a television show he likes. Chris doesn't travel because his personal geography centers on his television.

 

[WWWWolf]

Wait…I thought "spoofing" was when someone calls someone else using a caller ID that isn't theirs, or at least that's what Bob said...

Email was designed back when heaven was new, and wayyyyy before people got the bright idea that senders should be somehow verified. You can stick whatever the hell you want in the email From: header, and mail transmission basically doesn't give a shit. (The mail transmission systems along the way might raise a few eyebrows along the way and make a few scribblings in the margins about your real identity, though. Which is exactly what happened here: someone tried to impersonate Chris.)

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

If someone is going to go through the trouble of compromising his account to send fake messages, they could at least make the effort to type more like him. Lack of sporadic capitalization proves that this is not True and Honest.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Ya know something, brother? The Hulkster's friend was targeted by one of these scammers. The Hulkster called up the ISP for the provider and found out the culprit behind it: It was the Million Dollar Man, Ted Dibiase. The Hulkster then challenged Ted Dibiase to a four on four survivor style tag team match up at Survivor Series. The Hulkster teamed up with Demolition and Jake The Snake Roberts, while Dibiase picked the Powers of Pain and ZEUS, brother. It came down to the Hulkster against Dibiase, man, and the Hulkster reached deep inside and felt all the little Hulkamaniacs power, and used that to slam Dibiase to the mat, followed by the leg drop.

If only Chris were a Hulkamaniac, man, he could go to the Philippines and fight this scammer man on man just like the Hulkster did. WHATCHA GONNA DO, 419 SCAMMER, WHEN HULKAMANIA RUNS WILD ON YOU?!

 

[A-№1]

Which is exactly what happened here: someone tried to impersonate Chris.)

Except it also looks like they gained access to his online address book as well.

 

[waffle]

What a fag. Carrying a laptop is the greatest because you always have a computer and It gives you an excuse to carry a murse that you can fill with manly shit like extra bullets for your handgun and your corncob pipe and a space blanket and shit.

Laptop bags aren't a murse. You don't keep like your cash and bubble gum in it

Maybe you don't, but you're not doing it right. Or maybe I should say that my murse also holds a laptop...

 

[CWCissey]

What a fag. Carrying a laptop is the greatest because you always have a computer and It gives you an excuse to carry a murse that you can fill with manly shit like extra bullets for your handgun and your corncob pipe and a space blanket and shit.

Laptop bags aren't a murse. You don't keep like your cash and bubble gum in it

Maybe you don't, but you're not doing it right. Or maybe I should say that my murse also holds a laptop...

Netbooks=/=Laptops.

 

[Kyoosand]

Maybe it's Christopher Chandler trying to escape Chris' blue eyeball again.

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[CWCissey]

Maybe it's Christopher Chandler trying to escape Chris' blue eyeball again.

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[Coldgrip]

What's sad about the Mythbusters trip is he's so close to D.C. He could go there every weekend if he wanted. But does Chris make the journey for the Smithsonian? The monuments? The Air and Space Museum? The National Gallery? The Museum of Natural History? Or any of the other really cool (also free) things to do in D.C.?

No.

He goes for a television show he likes. Chris doesn't travel because his personal geography centers on his television.

Consider for a moment; he looks like and has a history, of acting like a tard. How well do you think a trip to any of those places will end? All it takes is another tourist looking at him funny and out comes the iphone (or whatever device he's been using to take pictures) to snap a potential twoll's picture. That may not be illegal, but not everybody takes kindly to having their picture taken by what looks like a middle aged cross-dressing child predator. Or if he tried to use the women's bathroom out there. Or (spirits forbid) he tardraged near the White House.

That and sadly, none of those places would hold any interest for him...

 

[SlowInTheMinds]

I doubt Chris has good passwords anyway. Not to mention the fact that he's so naive that he drops his password almost anywhere.

What's sad about the Mythbusters trip is he's so close to D.C. He could go there every weekend if he wanted. But does Chris make the journey for the Smithsonian? The monuments? The Air and Space Museum? The National Gallery? The Museum of Natural History? Or any of the other really cool (also free) things to do in D.C.?

No.

He goes for a television show he likes. Chris doesn't travel because his personal geography centers on his television.

Consider for a moment; he looks like and has a history, of acting like a tard. How well do you think a trip to any of those places will end? All it takes is another tourist looking at him funny and out comes the iphone (or whatever device he's been using to take pictures) to snap a potential twoll's picture. That may not be illegal, but not everybody takes kindly to having their picture taken by what looks like a middle aged cross-dressing child predator. Or if he tried to use the women's bathroom out there. Or (spirits forbid) he tardraged near the White House.

That and sadly, none of those places would hold any interest for him...

In some countries, snapping pictures of people without consent is illegal.

A trip to the Netherlands could, for instance, end Chris in court.

 

[homerbeoulve]

aaaaannnnnndddddd here's the angry facebook:

I think I'm the one who hacked it.

 

[Marvin]

I doubt Chris has good passwords anyway. Not to mention the fact that he's so naive that he drops his password almost anywhere.

Nah, his security and password strength nowadays is very good. Better than most people, due to troll paranoia.

 

[Tubular Monkey]

I doubt Chris has good passwords anyway. Not to mention the fact that he's so naive that he drops his password almost anywhere.

Nah, his security and password strength nowadays is very good. Better than most people, due to troll paranoia.

It used to be Sonichu. Now it's Sonichu82.

 

[A Random]

...you know, when I read this thread, I realized that I had seen this before.

Used to have a contact who I talked to for some art ideas and discussions, enough that I thought 'hey this is a nice guy'. Then, one day, I start getting this exact same script on MSN, except it's in England. Weird, since he hadn't said he was going to Europe, but I was a kid back then so I trusted him enough and...

Well, looking at *this*, I'm lucky I didn't have a way to send money to him back then, since I did believe it until now.

Some people, man...