I posted my latest image at Renderotica (as I sometimes do) and I later received an e-mail saying that someone posted a comment on my item (which is normal). However, when I clicked the link in the e-mail, I got a page with the following information: "Referred from yahoo.com on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:45:00 -0800 The domain from whence you came is not allowed to link to this site. The NSA, FBI and CIA have been informed of this incident. United States Department of Justice ~~ Ref ID: USCCC 99KRQ-00A-C4.a.11.c(3) Please refer to the above REFID in any correspondence and/or testimony concerning this case."

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When I opened Firefox and typed in the URL to my own gallery, the pages loaded fine. I clicked on my image and was able to read the comment that someone posted. Does anyone have any ideas why this message would appear? I am using Yahoo Mail (obviously) and Avant Browser. I'm checking mail at home and I'm not behind any kind of "content filtering" firewall. --John

I have heard rumblings that the new Homeland Security bill that the President signed in Nov. includes the Cyber-Security Enhancement Act (CSEA). I have no idea if that is of any revelance here but a link to the info is below.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0209/p01s02-uspo.html Edited.... the site is just one that I pulled up for information on the bill, not one I even knew about. Other searches wiil get other sites with information about it also.

Message edited on: 02/12/2006 19:23

What is the html code of the link you clicked on in your yahoo mail?

You might have been spoofed...

For example:

http://www.renderosity.com

Clicking on that will not go to renderosity...
Further, if your activities actually were monitored while you were at home, and no one issued a warrant to you to search you, you might consult a lawyer to see if your 4th amendment rights have been violated.

Message edited on: 02/12/2006 19:39

The link in the e-mail is the standard one sent from the Renderotica e-bot. If someone spoofed it, they did an excellent job: the entire e-mail looks like a real ebot. When I copy the link (from the "error" page in Avant Browser) and paste into Firefox, I'm taken to the correct page at Renderotica. --John

Attached Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10144543/from/RL.1/

This sounds bogus to me. Why would any site not allow linking from Yahoo? It sounds kinda similar to the FBI email scam that's been going around and is probably some kind of hoax. I'd contact the 'Rotica admins and let them know about it. "These scam e-mails tell the recipients that their Internet use has been monitored by the FBI and that they have accessed illegal Web sites," Besides, W has assured us that the NSA is only after you if you're talking to Bin Laden right? Of course, Dick Cheney just shot a guy so who knows--the shit is getting really funky.

Copying the link will just copy what you see, not the code underneath. It is also trivial for any hacker to spoof an email like that, and as for why - hackers are not rational minded people and it does no good to try and understand them... Most of them are suburban middle class teenage boys desperate for 'street cred' in a 'pseudo-intellectual world' of their own creation.

hoagie, they had some trouble with a script kiddie recently. let diane and martin know that your IP block may be affected.

nah..Yahoo would just block it, likely. And the CIA? they're bound by charter(right..;) not to do things inside the USA, while the FBI isn't supposed to do anything outside the USA. And if they were going to do anything, would they really tell you in an email?
And unless they're fanatical Islamic erotic pictures (which is probably one of the worlds' most improbable oxymorons..;), why would the NSA care? I doubt a flash of naughty bits is going to lead them to Bin Laden..;) someone's 'jerking your chain', as we say down there.
Also, that reference number should be able to be traced; if not as a statute, then as a reference to something concrete..if nothing else, check with Yahoo..

"FBI isn't supposed to do anything outside the USA" just ask any South American Drug Lord lol

Linking to Renderotica from my Yahoo ebots works fine for me

If you were being tracked on what links you're clicking you wouldn't know about it. Even the US gov't isn't stupid enough to announce something like that. It'd be like the police calling you up to say they were coming over to arrest you for the warrant that's out on you, and please wait for them to get there.

Yeah I agree..the Feds rarely announce to the world wide web what they are up to . :0) Sounds like somebody is playing you on this one..or you got hijacked..maybe via yahoo chat..land of the porn bots, booters,,etc etc lol

I suspect it was Rotica that got hijacked.

Radstorm...yeah, that would be a little stupid of them to announce it wouldn't it? :-)I suspect like the rest, that it's some kind of hijack.

operative words; supposed to..;) yup, the FBI practically owned American investigations in South America prior to 1947. CIA did domestic surveilance in the late 60s-early 70s. But still, I have a dim view of Yahoo in the first place, I've spent many an hour removing it from PC's that lock up.

Rotica has been attacked by a script kiddy allegedly from Poland. Last I heard he was sending out mass ratings & reviews deliberately meant to slow/crash the servers. They blocked him out but he came back with a new "handle" & made more trouble, maybe now he's behind this too if it's only Rotica links giving you trouble.

as far as announcing, there was a college professor on the news not long ago that got an email from Dept of Homeland Security that his emails, phone calls, and so forth were being watched. they do tell...but how stupid is that? I just assume my phone is tapped, my emails are being read, and there's audio and video surveillance everywhere. I wouldn't believe what anyone in government told me nowadays anyway, especially in regards to wiretapping and stuff.

I think we should all attend the Dick Cheney wiretapping seminar..at an undisclosed location of course.. LOL

click .... WHAT'S THAT !!!! oh don't worry, its just the FBI listening in ...

Cheney? well shoot..;) first Vice-presidential affray since Arron Burr/Alexander Hamilton..but there was that caning incident in the 1850's..;) Is 'causing terminal boredom of interception personnel' a federal offense? I may be in trouble on that one..;)

I just had this happen for an AniMotions gallery e mail notice!! I have a yahoo too, and I told AniMotions that it MUST be their server because all my normal forum links go to where they are supposed to! Now I can see it very well may be a yahoo thing?

So I guess a hacker is operating in yahoo??

First is scared me, and then logic came in and I said why on earth would the FBI care about either AniMotions or yahoo? I can see why renderotica might generate more of a feeling that "big brother" was watching...but now we can see there is something going on at yahoo, maybe? OF course telling yahoo admins doesn't do much good..I get SPAMMED "from yahoo" all the time now... Hmmm wonder if this is just one more thing the hackers are DOING to yahoo mail servers??

Message edited on: 02/13/2006 23:49

We haven't been hacked, folks, and neither have you. That message was never intended to show up on ebot links. We're working on fixing it. Sorry for the scare.

You have a fix? But what about John and the other site that he got the page too? Anyway, glad you can fix it...I have avoided clicking links for AniMotions lately.

It's fixed. You shouldn't get any more messages like that from animotions or renderotica.