Phony Yahoo Webcam

[kitaw11]

Hello

Many times when I open someone’s webcam in yahoo room, its showing video rather than showing the person on the other side. How do these people do that? Does yahoo allow you to do that? If so which version of yahoo allows that?

Thank you for your help.
Newbie

[hanatade]

Hi Newbie,

It’s not yahoo but rather they are webcam player softwares such as fake webam or webcam simulator. People use such programs to broadcast video from their computers to yahoo webcams.

I think one of them is free. I used it long time ago.

[Timmeh]

A webcam is just a video input device. Someone could be using any other input device (e.g. TV card) to show a movie, tell the client that's their "webcam" and voilà, film on webcam.

[Sebas]

Either it's a spambot, or it's been literally asking the same question around the internet for a while now, Timmeh. Guess which one my money's on?