huge myspace phishing scam in Spam, Scam and Phishbusters http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r17245012 en Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:06:00 EDT Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:06:00 EDT Re: huge myspace phishing scam http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17248816 garys_2k :
said by M A R K See Profile :

How do we now what to even look for?
If it's a myspace login the url should be "login.myspace.com" and nothing else.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17248816 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:48:15 EDT Re: huge myspace phishing scam http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17248614 M A R K : How do we now what to even look for?
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said by icex _ See Profile :

fyi for anyone that wants to know the fake login link website is »:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I just dug around and was about to post the same thing.
Edit: It looks like that site might also be involved in a watch scam. Google it.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17247562 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:21:27 EDT Re: huge myspace phishing scam http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17247427 icex _ : fyi for anyone that wants to know the fake login link website is »:xxxxx
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mod edit: There isn't a good reason to post the link]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17247427 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:58:22 EDT Re: huge myspace phishing scam http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17247335 xmrocks : MySpace was never known for security. I am willing to bet that they'll still be up tommorow, too, unfortunately.

It honestly doesn't surprise me one bit. There's really no excuse for them to still have the page up, though. They were warned about it.
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I don't tolerate phishing - >>phishtracker]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17247335 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:42:34 EDT Re: huge myspace phishing scam http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17247191 anon : amazing that those pages are STILL up now....]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17247191 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:15:02 EDT Re: huge myspace phishing scam http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17246440 28482647 :
MySpace is a heap, I doubt they even care tbh.

It's wild how users can edit their pages so much so that it can be faked like that. :\]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17246440 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:04:44 EDT Re: huge myspace phishing scam http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17246406 justin :
said by 28482647 See Profile :

Oh dear :| Anyone reported it or anythin?
Yes the news has been passed to on to them.
Hopefully they will quickly write a script to take down all the fake pages and block new ones.
This isn't going to help the 700k+ people in the list whose email/password combinations are now pocketed, however.
Will MySpace grab the same archive file the phisher has already got, and inform everyone by email to change their passwords on other sites, if they share the same password?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17246406 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:59:49 EDT Re: huge myspace phishing scam http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17246345 28482647 :
Oh dear :| Anyone reported it or anythin?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17246345 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:48:40 EDT Re: huge myspace phishing scam http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17246076 removed : Hmm, that's a very interesting point. Out of 700,000 harvested accounts at least 5% of them are bound to have an active PayPal account. 5% of 700,000 = lots and lots of disputed PayPal charges. :o]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17246076 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:07:07 EDT Re: huge myspace phishing scam http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17245813 xmrocks :
said by removed See Profile :

What kind of stuff are these accounts being hijacked for? There's no financial information on MySpace - nothing worth stealing, IMO.
Maybe they are stealing the "oh-so cool backgrounds" the idiots of MySpace are using these days :p MySpace is such an eyesore!

I guess if the MySpace user uses the same login, as brandon1234 mentioned as eBay/Paypal/their e-mail service, the e-mail address could be stolen and used to send out more phishing and/or scam e-mails that have more value to them (i.e. for banking, etc).

Or maybe it's just the pride oh saying "Yeah, I stole X amount of MySpace passwords!"

Edit: Just to prove my point (not that it needs to be or whatever), I picked a random user in that list, went to their e-mail server site, entered in their e-mail address and password and I'm now into their e-mail.

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I don't tolerate phishing - >>phishtracker]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17245813 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:20:35 EDT Re: huge myspace phishing scam http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17245065 anon : was wondering the same thing myself. i guess they could be hoping that some people have the same info for ebay/paypal/etc, but then again everyone on myspace is like 13 and has nothing worth taking]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17245065 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:06:43 EDT Re: huge myspace phishing scam http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17245034 removed : Wow, that's an impressive list. But 700,000 isn't all that surprising considering the fact that most MySpace users are, well, idiots.

What kind of stuff are these accounts being hijacked for? There's no financial information on MySpace - nothing worth stealing, IMO.
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there are a lot of fake profiles setup like »www.myspace.com/118474060 that have really authentic looking login screens

the login info is sent to an external site

judging by wget | wc it looks as though nearly 700,000 people have been duped by this so far]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17245012 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:58:23 EDT