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What rubbish!
What do you guys think of this?
http://www.spywareguide.com/articles/icq_nightmare_a_true_story_of__11.htmlFor one thing, ICQ uses UIN, not user names, as mentioned in the 9th paragraph. Secondly, who would ‘demand’ US $500.00 to return a stolen ICQ UIN?
Sounds like a hoax to me…
Precisely what I mean.
I think it’s more the holes in the plot that caught my interest, more than anything else.
he wasn’t saying his username to sign in was larry.. he was saying that was his username/nickname.. and he made the password the same as his username.. which is stupid.
Quote:quote:Originally posted by shifterSounds pretty realistic to me and UIN’s do have nicknames associated with them.
Associated with them, yes, but not an integral part of it. The UIN is the primary method of Identification, since the nick is not necessarily unique, but the UIN is.
Ok, we’ll take this in baby steps. I only use ICQ in Trillian, so please feel free to correct any wrong details, but all you would need to do is add the 6 digit UIN to your contact list and set it to view the Nickname. Then write down the nickname and try to sign into ICQ using the 6-digit UIN and the users nickname. Still too far-fetched?
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