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. 
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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