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Phishing? ThatPhishing In Myspace

Anyone phishing for myspace passwords is a doosh. You don't need to waste your time arguing about this guys, I got it down to the community, if they're phishing, that means they are working with themselves aparrently and have nothing to do with anyone else. No bad reputations on us hackers ok? A hacker is a general term in which is used to describe a man who has managed to get into your latest technology to pursue knowledge. A cracker a general term describing a person who had messed up some sort of technology to piss others off. Hackers and Crackers are completely different ok guys?

-reply by Total Hacker

Also, to avoid phishing, you should ensure the site you are logging into uses a SSL encrypted connection with a valid SSL certificate. Unfortunately it doesn't seem that Myspace has such a option, so you will have to be vigilant and use an anti-phishing software if possible e.g. Firefox's inbuilt anti-phishing measures.

phishing myspace email?Phishing In Myspace

It was brought to my attention that I had phishing links sent to someone through my email. I didn't put them there, I don't know how they would have gotten there..I didn't even know it untill I read letter she sent me that I had sent her.All I see is some html code that WAS ADDED AFTER I sent her the thing in the first place.There shouldn't be a link attached to my email. I thought it was all myspace controled.How do I fix it?

-reply by skarekr0w

The easiest way to avoid phishing sites that record your login data is to check the URL of the site you are browsing before entering your personal information, although these days phishing sites are using very similar domain names to trick the user into entering their login data.

i was phished
Phishing In Myspace

My issue was similiar to the last post. I was told my profile pic was on gabprofiles. I didnt click the link but googled the site but couldnt find mush so typed in the url into the address bar but was still logged in to myspace at the time. The next day I logged in I had a message from tom telling me to change my password as my site was phished. Wankers

-reply by newby

Did I get phished? What should I do now???
Phishing In Myspace

I just got a mail though myspace from a "friend" saying "someone is posting pictures from you on this webiste freefunphotos (dot) com"...I opened the site (yes...I'm stupid...I know) and a white page appeared...Not much else...I have NO idea what happened, I've changed ALL my passwords to make sure they didn't get phished and I don't know what to do next! DO NOT GO TO THIS WEBSITE! I've read it's a phishing site, although nothing has happened on my account yet, I'm so afraid it might will! Do you have any idea what I could do to protect myself??

My Space Phishing
Phishing In Myspace

Hey for anyone out there in my space land, I have a warning... I was on My Space awhile back and one of the people on my friends list sent a comment about this awesome profile tracker where you can see who looks at you're page.

So, like a big dummy I clicked on it and tried to sign up for it. The next thing I know, This thing had taken over my blog and was sending that comment to everyone on my friends list.I tried to get rid of it by changing my password and deleting it from my blog, but I eventually had to just cancel my account and start over.

It may sound like a stupid thing to fall for ,but his thing actually has a pic of Tom on it, and as a new my spacer I totally fell for it; so if you get this comment from anyone DON"T DO IT!!

-sogullible

someone phished my account
Phishing In Myspace

Ok so I went to login to my account and tom left a message for me saying that someone phished my account. Now I know who did it, it was my ex boyfriend because he was mad at me. Oh well, he lost me doesn't mean that he should take control of my account. He didn't even know my password. I knew his because I had to change it for him. So people who phish need to have their profiles deleted and a block put up so that they can never enter myspace or friendster or facebook or anything like those sites again.

What they do is wrong. It is completely stupid. I feel violated. So I had to change my password. It was absolutely no fun. They invade your privacy.

-Stephanie

Ahhh yes, but there are other ways that you can be affected. What about if a person posted something like this on one of your friends pages? As soon as you look at their page, you will be redirected to the fake login page. This is how most people are being affected. They just assume that they have to type their username and password in to continue. I'm sorry I didn't make this clear in my earlier post.

I personally have a myspace account and would like to say thanks for the heads up. However, I just checked my account and I've had this for a while so I'm not 100% sure on this, but as far as I remember, punkpig5 is correct in that only friends which you must approve are allowed to post comments. If you want to be more secure, there is always the option to disable HTML language in comments. Just click Home > Account Settings > Profile Settings (3rd option from the bottom) > then tick the types of comments you want to disable HTML in. There are three options: Picture, Blog and Profile Comments. Then click the "Change Settings" button to save your preference. Hope this helps those who want to stay on the safe side.