If you get a message from your friends on gtalk saying “check out this video,” don’t sign in with your gmail address. Or any other e-mail login for that fact.
My Story
I got an instant message on gtalk from a girlfriend who I adore and trust, so I signed in to watch the video that she sent me. ViddyHo.com required me to sign in with my gmail login. I thought that I was signing in with Open ID and thought nothing of it. That was until I started getting messages from a bunch of my friends asking things like:
“What is this video?”
“Are you spamming me?”
For those you you who are not familiar with Open ID, it’s a service that allows you to sign into a site with your Yahoo! or Google account, instead of registering for the site.
If you signed in with any of your accounts, change your password immediately. If I spammed you today…sowwy! I guess I didn’t pass the Internet IQ test. 
*Update*
I guess this thing has been viral over IM. Gawker wrote it up here and it’s been reported that the site is only days old. WTF? It was registered at GoDaddy on February 17, 2009. Read more at TechBuzz here.
Tags: phishing, spam, viddyho.com
Chenda, thanks for pointing out to my post. I do not understand why people follow unethical means to promote their sites.
No one knows who is sitting behind viddyHo, I hope its a bunch of script kiddies who have no idea what they are upto. They should care to put up a privacy note, which the site fails to !
Following you on twitter – you too can follow me at http://www.twitter.com/gautam_hn
Regards,
Hey, no problem. I had a helluva time explaining to all of my chat buddies that I’m not a spammer. I’m following you on Twitter, also.