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Millions of lemming VKontakte attack

Many probably saw the VKontakte counter on the main page - us - 50'000'000 with kopecks. The number is very impressive, but some mystic has recently begun to occur, which makes one doubt the reality of this figure :-)

Prehistory: I have mail on my domain 14.by, and catch-all is configured, so emails from any address come to me.

A year ago, by some miracle, a person appeared on Vkontakte, registered for soap on my domain (!!!), despite the fact that it was natural to click on the activation link he could not. He did some actions, people walked on his questionnaire, and I was notified of actions on the soap. At the end of the ends I got tired of it, I restored the password, went to the profile, and changed the settings so that nothing was sent to me. For almost a whole year I forgot about such gags ...

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And here - the feathers :-)
Almost simultaneously, people appeared

Arthur Karpovich, Shaph@14.by vkontakte.ru/id27936195 (there is generally a complete likeness of a living person)
Nikolay Kornishgin, murzik@14.by vkontakte.ru/id58364799 (a letter was sent about this registration about the need to activate the account, the profile is almost empty)
Nicolas Sarkozy, www.nick-footboll@14.by vkontakte.ru/id55545806

What are opinions, what is this phenomenon? How did they manage to register without confirmation?
Naturally, it is useless to ask them by mail.

Update : A couple of top stories from readers:

I somehow kept the mail on mail.ru, purely for spam. But not having time to start using it, just a little more than a week has passed since registration. I suddenly began to receive daily about 50 (!) Notifications about the message that came to my site vkontakte. I simply do not digest this site, so I have never been registered there. In each letter there was a link, I forgot how exactly it was called, but it allowed me to go into the vkontakte box and read the messages. I click and suddenly I am logged in to the name of a person and gives full access to his account at the end. At first I thought it was a glitch and decided to log out so as not to mess things up with anyone. After I wrote several letters to the support of VKontakte, with the requirements to clarify the reason why letters from someone else's account come to my inbox. They did nothing and did not explain.

Right now I think, is it possible that the administration of VKontakte is creating accounts by activating them knowingly, but registering other people's addresses as an e-mail address. By providing them with access to these accounts. This means that there is a complete feeling that these accounts are real, since everyone who receives 50 letters a day I think sooner or later will click on the button to read the letter purely for the sake of curiosity.

Every time I encounter such tricks, my opinion about this service is getting worse and worse.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/76697/


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