Wonder Woman contacts me about a non-existent video.
I have a Vimeo account. At least I think I do. I’m not sure. I don’t use the service.
Yet today, I got email messages from six people on Vimeo with basically the same content:
Hi,
Brenda Carter just sent you a message on Vimeo:
” Hi,
I found your video on vimeo.com (video-sharing site),
can we publish link to your video in our newspaper?Thank you,
Brenda Carter, journalist
The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/)If you want to reply:
http://vimeo.com/messages/user183325474Brenda Carter’s profile on Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/user183325474
Pretty amazing when you consider that I never uploaded a video to Vimeo.
Also amazing is how many Washington Post journalists liked my non-existent video: six so far today!
Of course, when you point to the Reply and Profile links, they don’t go to the destinations indicated. I didn’t click them. I don’t want to find out what happens. I just want to warn you that this is a scam. Spread the word.
My big challenge today is to find out if I really do have a Vimeo account and, if I do, to turn off notifications — or, better yet, close the account. I’ll also set up Mail to file future messages from Vimeo as spam.
It never ends.
Folks: don’t click links in email messages from people you don’t know.
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Thanks for the information. We all need reminded of this.
Hi Maria,
I also got two of those today. Like you I didnʻt remember setting up a Vimeo account. I wonʻt for long.
Thanks,
D
Maria,
As it turns out I donʻt have a Vimeo account. So I donʻt know where my email address was found.
My account was under an old email address. Don’t know how they found the address they used, either. I canceled the Vimeo account.
Why would they want to publish a link to any video in a newspaper?
The entire spam message is a work of fiction. Why make sense?
I think Wonder Woman was *Lynda* Carter.
You know, it seemed right when I wrote it, but I realized later it was wrong. Still, I kept it in there to see if anyone would notice. Good work. Glad someone is paying attention.
You’re right about the actress name, but wasn’t Wonder Woman’s real name “Brenda” something? Can’t remember.
Vimeo are Scammers! When the deadline arrives in which Vimeo on demand must pay you a percentage of the sales for your work, they will DELETE your account with any excuse.
And then they keep all the money from your sales, from your audiovisual work.
Thieves!