• Shirasho
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    Oh look, another social engineering scam passing itself off as a meme.

    I hate to be that guy, but this is exactly how people crack into your accounts. These scams are aimed at getting information that can be used to crack security questions for account recovery.

    Please do yourself a favor. Next time you see these images please do not interact with them.

    • Owl
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      1411 months ago

      I can’t tell if you’re joking or not

      • NataliePortlandOP
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        1511 months ago

        Bloody 'ell! I’ve been caught red-handed! With me trousers round me ankles! Be a good lad and write your full name and address so we can send you some warm ale by way of apology.

      • @halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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        111 months ago

        Oh this 100% is plausible, and even likely.

        Many security questions systems use favorite food as a security question to reset passwords.

        Most people use the same username for everything, often including their email address.

        Take the person’s reddit or lemmy username, add Gmail, yahoo, Hotmail, etc. and with just a couple more answers pulled from social media posts you can build a fairly strong profile from seemingly very little and otherwise innocuous information.

      • @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        511 months ago

        And have a consistent, unchanging favorite food that you use for security questions.

        Today my favorite food is cheesecake. Tomorrow it might be bagels. It’s definitely nothing I’ve ever used for a security question.

    • @30p87@feddit.de
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      111 months ago

      That’s why my security questions, if I’m forced to specify them, are also 128 random chars, just like the main password

      • @halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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        011 months ago

        It’s not about the password itself. Many password reset systems use security questions. A common security question is what your favorite food is.

        They don’t need to know your current password when they know the security answer to make a new password on their own.