Maxo
Your tax dollars at work.
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join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL
clubs: | Victims
I've seen a number of people who have fallen victim to these scams. I always send them a nice PM telling them to change their password ASAP. |
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Cop
Premium
join:2001-09-05
Auburn, AL | yep
Yep, See it happen all the time. All they have to do is change their passwords and there good to go. |
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justin
Australian
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Brooklyn, NY
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| said by Cop  :Yep, See it happen all the time. All they have to do is change their passwords and there good to go. Can you send 700,000 PMs when all you have is an email address for each? Would they read their email and believe you if you sent 700,000 emails? |
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rogue_
I Have A Secret Window
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join:2001-10-17
Lake Hiawatha, NJ
| myspace would delete your account for sending 700,000 e-mails.. Ain't that a hoot! Here you are trying to help out and they remove your ass..
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Cop
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join:2001-09-05
Auburn, AL | Tom puts up posts saying if you see bulletins posted under your name that you didn't post, to change your password. Hopefully people are smart enough to take the advice. |
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kaisa
Premium
join:2002-08-20
Glen Ellyn, IL
clubs:  | how many people will change only their myspace passwords, and not think about their ebay/email/paypal? I'm willing to bet a lot of the myspace crowd uses the same passwords for everything. |
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DiscardedVet
Premium
join:2005-04-06
Sturgis, SD
| reply to Cop
said by Cop :Tom puts up posts saying if you see bulletins posted under your name that you didn't post, to change your password. Hopefully people are smart enough to take the advice.
Changing the password is irrelevant, considering the password is retrieved via the malicious login page.
DV
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
Premium
join:2005-06-29
clubs: | lol
One more reason to stay way from that web site. 
Breeding ground pedo,viruses myspace is. |
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Jehu
Premium
join:2002-09-13
MA
| Yep
"Do you keep better passwords for online banking and other activities that involve real risk of loss?"
I do, I have various "trash" passwords and the select few I use for important stuff.
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fcisler
Premium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY
| WOW
MAN, people are gulliable....
they post the image "check to say it says..." and give you an image TO SHOW YOU WHAT TO LOOK FOR!
Even at THAT, they have a 4MB and 1MB text file of login:passwords.....wow.....
So anyone notify iPowerWeb yet - 72.22.69.47 ? |
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justin
Australian
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Brooklyn, NY
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| reply to DiscardedVet
Re: yep
said by DiscardedVet :said by Cop :Tom puts up posts saying if you see bulletins posted under your name that you didn't post, to change your password. Hopefully people are smart enough to take the advice. Changing the password is irrelevant, considering the password is retrieved via the malicious login page. DV No it is irrelevant that "tom" puts up messages like this. People who lost their emails/password combinations in this even are never going to see anything disturbed in their myspace account, because the thieves are not the least bit interested in logging into myspace and putting up joke posts.
They are going to take this file, or have already, and they are going to run it through every juicy email+password type validation system they can find.
Paypal allows logins with just your email and password. Ebay as well. Most email accounts (yahoo mail, gmail).
Bank sites, usually not. Usually you also have to know a username and a password. |
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dardin
join:2002-11-19
Tucson, AZ | reply to hayabusa3303
Re: lol
Couldn't agree more. Myspace is like the new AOL. |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ | 1D1075
Only idiots use the same passwords for everything. I use a different one for each site.
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Dagda1175
join:2001-06-17
Goleta, CA | ANY site you have a password for...
...you should change it every three months. |
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koam
Pink Pecker
Premium
join:2000-08-16
East Puddle
clubs: | this is very old news
i noticed this probably 6 months ago when it was widespread. I haven't seen it crop up in many months.
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Subaru
1-3-2-4
Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT
clubs: | Happend to me
And when I logged back in I saw these messages by me and I was like WTF. As soon as I saw that I changed my password as soon as possible. |
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justin
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| reply to koam
Re: this is very old news
said by koam :i noticed this probably 6 months ago when it was widespread. I haven't seen it crop up in many months. Why didn't myspace apply filters to stop this kind of thing -- 6 months ago? |
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Rupert Merd
@ameritech.net | reply to Subaru
Re: Happend to me
You were stupid enough to fall for the scam? |
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enrolk
join:2002-04-23
Murrells Inlet, SC | reply to hayabusa3303
Re: lol
It's like a sears catalogue for pedafiles.
They probably start drooling as soon as they log in.
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PolarBear
The bear formerly known as aaron8301
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join:2005-01-03
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| Warning In General
This should be a warning in general that you should change your passwords for EVERYTHING often, and use different passwords for each site, especially important sites like anything that involves your money or personal information (bank, paypal, ebay, etc.).
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