Warning to the wise

[earthbelow]

I got the heads up from madwriter this morning.

I got friended sometime yesterday by a user named silent_and_calm. This user, apparently, runs a script that friends you and will capture your password if you're making a comment on this person's journal. This also seems to be a troll account from what I'm hearing.

Of course, these are all reports. And in the discussion on madwriter's journal, there was a little question as to whether there are anything *but* reports of this being done. However, enough people commented that this user had repeatedly friended and unfriended them that I got suspicious.

I also got suspicious when the user info of said troll lead me to an entry in which they said I should turn off my notifications and ignore the constant friending and unfriending if it bothered me. Something about people who are that snarky right off the bat and not that good about it really raises flags for me.

Wouldn't stand up in a court of law, but it convinced me.

So I used the handy dandy ban_set tool. Which you can read about here.

So there's your PSA for the day. If this user should friend you, I'd be cautious.

Comments

[br0ken_dolly]

that guy friended/unfriended me. i didn't friend him back, i just saw his crappy non-journal (i think it was only created a day or two before he added me). he friended/unfriended me so fast that my lj toys monitor didn't even pick up on it (which gives me daily updates about changes to my friends list).

i agree he's a troll but it never dawned on me that he had the ability to swipe passwords. wonder if anyone's reported him to lj_abuse. i might fire off an email.