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Jeff Romard

Jeff Romard

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Use Firefox, this wont happen. It will automatically tell you it is a fake page.
 
My understanding is it's not a fake page it's the real page with code embedded
 
This stuff is nothing new. It's a great reminder though.

BTW if you folks get comments with sexy women videos, don't click on the link it's a spoof site.. It takes you to what looks like the myspace login page where you login again and you give these guys your username and password. Which the spammers then use to post spam bulletins and comments all over MySpace.

Gotta be careful out there guys.. or use Linux. ;)
 
Facebook is just too damn confusing for me.

I don't want to have to have a PhD in order to be a member of a site.
 
Someone had this picture that looked like a myspace video with some chicks on it and then I clicked on it and it tooked me to a website that looked EXACTLY like myspace but I looked at the URL bar and it was not even close to myspace. I typed in "I'm not stupid you hacker" password "****".

Gotta becareful with this new thing..
 
DJ Brian B said:
Someone had this picture that looked like a myspace video with some chicks on it and then I clicked on it and it tooked me to a website that looked EXACTLY like myspace but I looked at the URL bar and it was not even close to myspace. I typed in "I'm not stupid you hacker" password "****".

Gotta becareful with this new thing..
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And these are the type of pages Firefox will alert you to. If you go to one of these pages in Firefox, if will grey out the whole page and a box will pop up telling you it is a suspected forgery.
 
It's gonna get worse. The PayPal and eBay phishers have been at it for years. MySpace is just their latest conquest.

Many MySpace users are pups who are not puter savvy and the phishers know it. Brian clicked on a spoofed link and responded. They've got him. He confirmed his email as valid. :rolleyes:

The basic scam is to send "warning" messages that appear to come from trusted sites. Within the message is a link to a mirror site that appears to be the real thing. You'll see the logos and all. The phishers will ask that one "confirm" personal information like login names, passwords, credit card numbers, PINs etc. Once they get this info, you're fu**ed.

Brian is partly right ~ the URLs are bogus. BUT (and this is important) the URLs often contain paypal, ebay, myspace or other trusted site names as extensions. That's what fools people. Cursor over the hyperlink and examine the URL closely. Or you may right-click on it and examine the properties.

But whatever ya do, don't left-click on 'em. :eek:
 
All those comments saying "See whos stalking your myspace, click here" and **** like that are also a problem. I clicked one once and it took me to a page that required me to put in my myspace username and password. It looked fishy so I put in a fake, and just as I suspected, as soon as I hit submit it just went blank. Lucky I realized it was fake.
 
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