Scam artist on Trademe.

[Jizah]

I'm not your pal, guy!

[Hahn]

Well done. I needed a laugh :-D

[vtec]

Can't believe how many people lose their panties when they fall for a joke like this. Hilarious, nice one Jizah.

[Trudes]

hahahaha, classic!!!

[Slyer]

People falling for this hook line and sinker is far more hilarious than the actual prank.
Took me about a second to catch on.

[Laava]

Yeah I laughed! Not like the time the cell phone locator showed me up to no good in the gay bar tho!

[PrincessBandit]

Haha, very clever. Just make sure you log out otherwise others viewing the page might decide to edit your details while "you" are still logged in.

Don't know if that's possible, but given that the gullible (yes, me included) fall for it I think it could be problematic if a prankster tried editing your info while "logged in" to your open page.....

Surely we wouldn't have any delinquents (or perhaps, malicious folk) like that on here would we?

[PrincessBandit]

Sorry to do this to you Jizah, because I do believe it was a clever catch, however...

My concern is that when I clicked the link and followed the instruction to "log in" I trustingly did so. I was startled to see what was brought up and in my concern I logged out of Kb and back in using my husband's account. I went to your thread and clicked again, to check whether everyone else was able to see what I was seeing i.e. my trade me profile. Sure enough it came up and I freaked even more, especially given that access to editing my details was there.

Finally it dawned on me to click the "log out" button, which closed the page and hence meant that no one else could "hack" my details.

If I was able to work it out then I guess it's not that difficult, but it only would take someone with a little less thinking to perhaps leave their details page open and have some less-than-helpful person take advantage of that.

Again, I apologise for something you think is clever, and probably is, but if it leaves people open to having their personal data abused then I think you should reassess what you post here.

Regards,
Dawn

[Mully]

You were probably still logged into TM when you went through KB the second time - I don't think anyone else could have got into your account that way

(I'm happy for a computer-type person to correct this though)

[Virago]

Gah. Thud.

No-one else will be logged into your TM account by clicking that link. Each person will be taken into their own account (except of course for those who don't have one).

Edit: If you don't log out of TM, visiting again fairly soon will take you straight back in (through cookies on your 'puter).

[PrincessBandit]

Yeah, Rik just came home and said it would only be because I happened to do it from the same computer. Doh.

Oh well you live and learn. For those of us not overly computer savvy it's a bit of a freaky thought though....

[Mully]

Gah. Thud.

No-one else will be logged into your TM account by clicking that link. Each person will be taken into their own account (except of course for those who don't have one).

Edit: If you don't log out of TM, visiting again fairly soon will take you straight back in (through cookies on your 'puter).

Yay, I was right.

Hooray for me.

[MattRSK]

Funniest thing I have ever seen on KB.

[PrincessBandit]

Retrospectively it is funny, but as a not-very-computer-literate person it did freak me out. The stupid thing is, I was sucked in because I logged out of Kb and then back in again under hubby's kb user name and MY trade me profile page was still open. It didn't occur to me that it might have occurred simply because of the computer I was on - all I saw in my panic was that someone else (i.e. "Balu") was able to view my personal data. Of course my first thought was that anyone else could.

Just one of those occasions where computer ignorance meant that I was probably sucked in worse than anyone else who would've seen through it.

[sinfull]

Absolutely brilliant !!! Bling sent !