i’ve heard about this (from N@W) few months ago.
i should have posted it right away to lessen the number of victims. (especially my friends who read my blog)
recently 2 former officemates have fallen victim to this scam.
anyway, the strategy is: one of your friends in your YM would show you
something (pics, freebies, etc) then the page that will load is Yahoo
login page. but FAKE! they say it looked genuine though. (that’s why the advice is to check the URL)
since you thought it is your friend chatting with you, you are likely to log in. what you didn’t know, they were simply getting your password.
that’s it, that person who got your password will start using your account
(modified your password so you can’t use it again) chatting with your friends asking for mobile phone loads or sometimes worse, money.