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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
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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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rogue_
I Have A Secret Window
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join:2001-10-17
Lake Hiawatha, NJ
| Re: yep 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 | Re: yep 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:  | Re: yep 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
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join:2005-04-06
Sturgis, SD
| 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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justin
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| 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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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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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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| dardin
join:2002-11-19
Tucson, AZ | Re: lol Couldn't agree more. Myspace is like the new AOL. | |
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| enrolk
join:2002-04-23
Murrells Inlet, SC | It's like a sears catalogue for pedafiles.
They probably start drooling as soon as they log in.
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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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Steve
Pipe Wrench Fight
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join:2001-03-10
Yorba Linda, CA
| Re: WOW said by fcisler :MAN, people are gulliable.... This phish was expertly done and hosted on myspace.com - it would have legitimately fooled even most experts.
We tell people to watch the URL (in general), but that wouldn't have been good enough here: the fact that the picture shows "login.myspace.com", but the page itself is myspace.com is enough that it would take exceptional caution to notice something was wrong.
Steve
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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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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join:2005-02-11
Davie, FL
| Re: 1D1075 said by dvd536 :Only idiots use the same passwords for everything. I use a different one for each site. Only idiots use a different password for every single 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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normat
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join:2000-08-02
Boynton Beach, FL
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1 edit | Re: this is very old news Myspace is a mess, buggy, slow, easy to hack, etc. It's like the worst high school click times 1,000,000. DSLR is a much better site. Too bad Justin didn't get as lucky as Tom and make all those millions. | |
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LegoPower77
Abecedarian
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join:2002-08-03
Arlington, VA
| Re: this is very old news said by normat :Too bad Justin didn't get as lucky as Tom and make all those millions. I agree that DSLR is worth a helluva lot more, but it's not a question of "luck" that one has more popularity. Myspace type sites allow ego-centric kids to focus on themselves; DSLR type sites focus on topics and ideas. What's that old saw: "Small minds focus on people, large minds focus on events, and great minds focus on ideas"?
Given the state of things these days, it's assured that the lowest common denominator is where the money's at. If I were Justin, I would have boundless pride about this site and wouldn't trade it for cheap wealth.
Apropos to the topic, last week, I thought about submitting this article to dslr but didn't because I thought the relevance was just a post on a Friday open thread of a few months ago. But, there is an interesting nexus, N.B.:Some teens, however, say security and privacy -- already a common concern among parents and teachers -- are dampening their enthusiasm for MySpace.
Over the summer, Birnbaum's friend Chrissy Quantrille discovered an impostor had taken her photos off her MySpace profile, set up a fake page and even used it to establish a romantic virtual relationship with a boy in California.
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justin
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| Re: this is very old news kind comments about dslr but myspace is worth the billion news corp paid for it and a whole bunch more! It is a friendster that works, it allows people (of a certain age) to keep up with each other. I guess it continues to launch the careers of musicians as well. It has also been safer than relying on email where emails from friends are scattered among spam and trojans. I doubt many myspace addicts even use regular email anymore for anything other than signing up to sites like myspace!
But I've seen those news stories reporting that some users realized that myspace is where you put friends that you don't keep in touch with anymore, and sending "wassup?" messages to each other or "nice pic!" or "love your new design" is tissue-thin social interaction. While obviously true, I'm not sure if those negatives are large enough to be a growth problem for "Tom".
I saw myspace has slavishly copied craigslist in building a member to member classifieds system. Fascinating to see if this can ever challenge craig -- even with everyone under the age of 26 being on myspace. | |
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Subaru
1-3-2-4
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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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Rupert Merd
@ameritech.net | Re: Happend to me You were stupid enough to fall for the scam? | |
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PolarBear
The bear formerly known as aaron8301
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join:2005-01-03
Riverside, WA
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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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Seven1
join:2002-07-24
Lexington, KY
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| A simple suggestion Perhaps MySpace should create a login utility of some sort that resides on the user's computer. The way the scam works is simple, but flawed. It relies on users not paying attention to the address bar (or being so ignorant that they don't know to). I grant that my suggestion is most likely not without flaws itself, but I think it would help deter a lot of people from being scammed. At the very least they should have developers put their minds to. However, judging by the lack of action and the lack of change of MySpace, I doubt they will do much of anything. It's high time that monstrosity came crashing down anyway. | |
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Tomek
Premium
join:2002-01-30
Brooklyn, NY | How it looks like I never seen it, I wonder how it looks like?
Most of the people that use myspace are naive when it comes to these things and how can I inform them of a danger
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steve1515
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join:2000-08-07
Peabody, MA
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| Re: How it looks like said by Tomek :I never seen it, I wonder how it looks like? Most of the people that use myspace are naive when it comes to these things and how can I inform them of a danger Ya, I'm interested in this...I'd like to know how it's done. All the links I've checked don't work. Has this been fixed? | |
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acethebunny
mIRC is my life
join:2006-09-14
Charleston, WV
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1 edit | Re: How it looks like said by steve1515 Ya, I'm interested in this...I'd like to know how it's done. All the links I've checked don't work. Has this been fixed?
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it's not be fixed... it's just hard to find the fake sites and once they are found and reported, they get closed down.
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Jameson
10-8
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join:2004-05-28
Fallbrook, CA
clubs: | Re: How it looks like I spotted one the other day and reported it to them. | |
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