myspace phishing scams? Options

[Throwdown]

why the hell would you want access to someone's myspace account? i can understand paypal since you can actually profit from it, but mtyspace? this country sucks


saw this on my friends bulletin thing and i didn't think he'd write something like that


then i click and it asks me to sign in, even though i was already signed in

so be careful

[Hartmann]

You running Firefox 2.0? It looks like it may have logged you out instead of phishing as 2.0 has some anti-phishing features built-in (showing true addresses).

[Throwdown]

beats the hell out of me this is jessicas comp

[Spectatrix]

That's not phishing, it's just myspace stupidity. Myspace makes me re-login all the freakin' time. It sucks like that.

[Throwdown]

then explain why when you click on this http://myspace.com/118469363 it asks you to log in, but when you click on anyone else's myspace hyperlink it doesn't

[woody]

beats the hell out of me this is jessicas comp

there's your first problem

[schwab]

i wouldnt mind being at that halloween party

[Spectatrix]

then explain why when you click on this http://myspace.com/118469363 it asks you to log in, but when you click on anyone else's myspace hyperlink it doesn't

Well sonuvabitch, that's weird. You're right, it's a phishing attempt. I "logged in" and it took me to a server not found page. Changed my password right afterwards, though, so it's all good.

[Hartmann]

Well sonuvabitch, that's weird. You're right, it's a phishing attempt. I "logged in" and it took me to a server not found page. Changed my password right afterwards, though, so it's all good.

Their account is against the TOS so I would contact MySpace with that link and they should delete it.

[Spectatrix]

I contacted MySpace with it, but it certainly wouldn't hurt for more people to do so too.

[Divergent Realit...]

you and your... myspace.

[Mommy]

You running Firefox 2.0? It looks like it may have logged you out instead of phishing as 2.0 has some anti-phishing features built-in (showing true addresses).

yeah, its 2.0

[Xentither]

wtf phishing? pls expln.

[Spectatrix]

Yay, it's been deleted!

Xentither, phishing is the act of attempting to get somebody's private information, typically online banking login info, by tricking somebody into "logging into" a spoof site.

[psidancer]

why the hell would you want access to someone's myspace account? i can understand paypal since you can actually profit from it, but mtyspace? this country sucks

The main point is that once you have access to someone's myspace, you can use the bulletin feature to send spam for porn or the latest scam-of-the-day. Also, most people end up using the same password for their email that they do for their myspace, so not only does a phisher now have your myspace, they also have your email. And a crafty phisher would probably try the same user ID at the various popular free emails sites, cause you never know how many jackpots you're gonna hit. The more accounts you have access to, the more contacts you have to spam/phish. And spam/phishing in far more likely to succeed if it comes from someone the recipient knows.

And since far too many people don't know better than to fall for phising/spam, it's a profitable. Since it's all email/internet based, you're spending mere cents to contact thousands of persons. It just takes one moron to buy into whatever your scam is to make a profit... And while we're on the subject of morons on the internet, why is it everytime I get a friends request from some an obvious pornsite related myspace profile, they have hundreds of friends. How can people be so fucking retarded that they actually add these people to their list... and then post comments on their page.



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