Yahoo cam permission & view invisible contact

[answer]

Hello,

I was reading through a couple of topics here that ponder the question about whether or not it is possible to view someone's yahoo cam without their permission and how to view someone who is invisible. I don't like being someone to revive a dead topic but I have some sad news that both these things are VERY MUCH possible. How do I know? Because someone has been threatening a close friend of mine with the tools!

The only reason I came to this website is because I was trying to find out how this prick managed to do this. I've searched the web for hours looking for ways that this was accomplished, including those porn-banner-filled hackers sites but have come up with nothing solid. This stalker knows when my friend is online no matter what and has sent my friend webcam pics taken from my friend's webcam. And it's impossible that these pics were taken via a webcam chat session with another friend. I won't say why.

Wherever these tools are, I'm glad nobody can find them easily because they SUCK. Invisible mode and cam requests are made for a purpose and just think how you would like it if someone could see you when you were tryin to get some privacy or worse... saw YOUR cam without your permission.

Just for the record, my friend's contacted the Organisation for Cyber Crime in his/her local area and is looking to press charges for harassment and more. Why? Because he/she has been absolutely terrified.

Peace out.

[DJHyperbyte]

If it is possible, then there must be some serious bugs in Yahoo! Instant Messenger. Still, people who search for such bugs/exploits with the intensions to harrass people should be shot. Your friend is absolutely right about contacting such organisations. Question is: will it get him/her anywhere?

I hope it will.

[Jeff]

Your friend should also absolutely send an email describing the harassment to abuse@yahoo.com
Provide as much detail as possible. They may also want to contact the police.

[Ashyn]

They may not be getting the information through yahoo at all. If your friend has a backdoor trojan on his computer like Back Orifice, the person could easily know exactly what programs your friend is running (i.e. know when yahoo is running) and could even take pictures with the webcam and send them to his/her self. I'd have your friend do a virus scan, and find a scanner for the common types of trojans.

[RubiksCube]

exactly ashyn, in this case I do not belive the problem lyes within the program but within the user. It's very easy to trick someone who isn't very computer literate into accepting such programs and there are a ton of them. I have seen them in action and know this is very possible, also very illegal in this case and I would suggest legal action as I am sure this person has left numerous footprints or will continue doing this which you could catch them in the act if you do not let them be aware you are tracking them.. have your friend seek legal help.. people like that give "hackers" a bad reputation as being abusive privacy breaking sicko's but rather they are morons using a program someone else made..

[heythere]

i know how to do that kind of.....but it only takes u off there cam viewing list.....until they stop camming. but the trick is u have to be on there cam to do it.if they were to stop there cam then turn it on again. u would be off...

[slskp44]

answer - are you saying that the person could view her webcam when she was not even logged onto yahoo or only when she was? I am so curious because I think that I have someone that is trying to do this to me as well.....this is scary!

[DanMan]

shoot me an email heythere, i'm curious about that trick

[Johnson]

Once again someone claiming to have the ability to secretly view peoples web cams. The last time someone staked a claim to this, it was from a 3rd party, that saw it on a tv show or something. This time it's a third party, that took cam shots of a friend of theirs. Just because someone says something it's automatically true? Sounds to me like your friend got trojaned and someone hacked into their pc. Once again let me repeat that it is IMPOSSIBLE to secretly view someones webcam without them knowing. These RUMORS have been floating around yahoo for years.

[JThums]

Another way that your friend is being harassed(getting pics of her webcam and knowing when shes online) is this "harasser" has two ID's and one he is using to "be nice" and then turning around and using the other account to harass her with.