ALERT: Let Me Explain How to Steal Your MySpace Account
Okay, people, friends, readers, these past few days (and weeks), several (a huge amount of) friends have had their MySpace accounts phished -- this means that you unknowingly revealed your MySpace password to a spammer who then uses your account to spam all your goddamn friends. I normally wouldn't post such a topic here. As so many people, including myself, are on MySpace and use MySpace, it is a (trivial) matter of public interest, and I am going to say it from a sheer level of annoyance that this causes.
This is how they do it:
It begins like this, one of your MySpace friends or their MySpace friends or those MySpace friends, basically someone somehow remotely or intimately connected to you by different degrees of MySpaceness added a fake profile as a friend. This fake profile of a person is actually a spammer. They post either bulletins or comments that have a link, graphic, or video in it, except that when you click on it, for some reason MySpace asks you to log in again.
THE TRICK: It isn't really MySpace that is asking you to log in again, but a spoof page made to resemble MySpace, have you give away your username and password for use of a spammer to use your account to spam people, your friends actually. Nice, ain't it?
So, THE FREAKING LESSON is this: when MySpace asks you to log in again after you click a link, video, picture, or whatever, check the URL, if it says rnyspace or has this weird, funky URL address that doesn't quite look normal under CLOSER inspection, type in myspace.com manually, get out of there, don't enter your goddamn password in a fake myspace page, okay?
I've had to tell at least four friends in a week about this. I'm starting to feel redundant, so here is a mass post to all of you to possibly save you, your friends, and more importantly, of course, ME, from further agony. :-P
Good riddance and good night!!
- Stewart N. Thorpe of Citizen Press Revolution
PS: The only way to stop spamming: change your password. The best prevention: pay attention to the URL (web address) when MySpace asks you to log in again.
PPS: MySpace users, please repost this as a blog or a bulletin. Make this a meme, alright? Thanks.
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Why are you giving people this idea? Aren't you afraid you might get in trouble because someone from MySpace might find out about this blog?
First off, the spoof webpage scam has been going on for years. Spoof e-mails tell people to go to spoof Paypal accounts, for example.
Now, what is the best way to prevent people from giving away their personal information? By telling them how it is stolen.
Moreover, anyone who is a MySpace regular with lots of friends and contacts knows that spamming has become epidemic at MySpace, especially the scam that I described. This is not a secret that this happens. I am not revealing some rarely used scam. Attempts by it happens to me every other day, sometimes every day of the week.
The best policy is informing people, not keeping them in the dark. This goes with pretty much everything.
Ignorance is dangerous.
When people are educated and develop thinking, they can defend themselves. When they aren't, they are defenseless.
Citizen Press Revolution
Oh wow, thanks for the warning. I hardly go on myspace anymore. And yea, a lot of my friends are spamming my myspace page. But I know it's not their fault. Perhaps I should go back to my account to see if anything changes. I don't recall if I ever encounter the fake myspace page that you said. But better be safe than sorry right? lol
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Repost my post. Get your friends to stop spamming. Make it stop! Make it stop! :-)
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Lol not getting your information stolen over the internet is like not getting pregnant - just practice abstinence. Like I practice abstinence from myspace, and I never have problems like these.
But thanks for the tip anyway.
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For better or worse, MySpace is the next best thing for independent and new bands to find audiences and get people to hear their music. MySpace is a tenous activist tool, but I've been to protests where people who had never gone before to protests, came strictly because of MySpace. Like it or not, MySpace is here to stay.
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MySpace's existence doesn't bother me at all. I just choose not to honor it with my presence, since I have no time or interest in solicitation of the type you describe. You might say that I'm kind of a hermit.
I am an ex-hardcore-hermit myself. I learned that life is simply better spent (on average) with people.
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I like people. Just not internet-people. I'm choosy about my friends and it's easier to distinguish between acquaintances and friends in person. On the internet someone can become a "friend" just by appearances and association and not by your choice.
I agree to a certain extent. I do have a few good friends that I met through our school's message boards, though. Just don't keep your mind completely closed to the idea.
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I already knew about these phishing scams and what not, but alot of people dont. so thanks for posting this to help stop that fakers and the annoying spam
thanks. I just got phished the other day. I now remember having to reenter my password to see something.
It is unexpecting. People can usually spot e-mail spams easily, but most people don't pay attention to the web address bar.
PS: Spread the word. More people know this, less it can happen.
Citizen Press Revolution
Don't even bother clicking on any links that are in your friend's bulletins anymore. =)
Thanks.
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No problem. Now just spread the word, repost it, the more people find out about this, the less often this can happen. Simple.
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WHOOAAaaaa. Thank you! My mind has actually just been blown. Lol! But it looks just like Myspace! (And yes, this has actually happened to me before)
Every comment left here makes me happy to know that there is one less unwitting victim on MySpace and one less unwitting victim's profile being made into a spam machine. Thank you. Sniff. So happy.
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I really thought that people already knew this. As you said, it has been going on for years. Pathetic, really. Ignorance should be stopped.
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