MySpace Scams

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“Oh, my fault I must have gave you the wrong link then. The people I use to make make money should be here
Click Here . Well I hope it works for you this time, remember that if the site is not up they are not excepting anyone else. I told you I’m making about $900 a week and it’s consistent. Just make sure that you take taxes into consideration, it’s a little different than that job your always complaining about.

LOL anyways that is funny about Laura, what else did she say about it? I’m not even going to worry about it ya know? Oh well, call me later or I’ll catch you on here, see ya.”

hey cutie,were you the one sending me the messages asking me about how i make money on the internet? did katie tell you about it or something? i usually try to keep it quiet because i don’t want that many people in on it…well, basically all i do is sit at home and fill out these ridiculously easy surveys on the computer that companies such as best buy, sears, walmart, etc. send me.they want my opinion on lots of things including their customer service, my eating habits, what i plan on purchasing in the 6 months - really easy stuff. the best part about it is that I get paid between $75-$125 PER SURVEY. at one time i was filling them out and I did 2 in an hour and made $218.34. that’s just in an hour, i made more than my mom and dad combined in one hour! what’s funny is that i actually use to work at mcdonalds. waking up for the morning shift is what really made me mad :( now i can sleep in until whenever i want, and fill out a few surveys before i go to college. the companies pay me by check every 2 weeks.i just bought this sweet 50″ flat screen tv and most of my friends are starting to think im a drug dealer or something LOL. remember i told you i don’t tell that many people about it? that’s because i think if more people start doing it, i will have less surveys to do, so don’t tell anyone either.what’s funny is that everyone sits on myspace all day and fills out those stupid surveys for free…LOL, while I get paid for doing the same thing! anyway, i hope i have this link right here it is: http://www.spaceperfected.com/ezcb i hope that is how you do the link part, anyway be sure to go to that site now because they are running some special half price offer for 3 more days only…just copy and paste this into your browser http://www.spaceperfected.com/ezcb

I’m sure most of you have seen this either on comments or inside of bulletins. Either way, this is SPAM. When you click on it, you will be installing spyware onto your computer. MySpace Scams would suggest removing it immediately if you have already installed it.

Description of Profile Watcher:
Dubious application that pertains to monitor myspace accounts. Closely affiliated with Zango, the application has direct links to Zango videos under the “Cool Videos, Games, & More” tab. Any application that requires you to enter private credentials, as this one does, warrants a healthy dose of cautious scepticism.

Vendor
zpsearch.com

To remove:
Make sure that you have a spam blocker installed.

MySpace has shut down phishing websites attempting to mimic MySpace, including the crafty rnyspace.com and myspaceplus.com. One user even customized the URL of his real MySpace profile to appear like the legitimate MySpace login page.

MySpace plans to offer free parental notification software in a bid to appease government critics, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Parents will be able to use the software, named “Zephyr,” to find out what name, age and location their children use to represent themselves on MySpace, the Journal said.

It would not allow parents to read their children’s e-mail or see their profile pages, and it would alert children that their information was being shared, the paper reported.

The news comes as a group of 33 state attorneys general considers whether to take action against MySpace if it does not raise the age limit to join the site to 16 from 14 and begin verifying members’ ages, the paper said.

A lawsuit would make for bad publicity for the site just as advertisers are overcoming their concerns about it, the paper said.

News Corp. bought the service for $580 million in 2005, and some analysts have speculated that it could be worth billions of dollars in the next several years.

Popular among teenagers, the site has had to deal with public criticism that some children who use it provide too much personal information, making them easy prey for sex offenders.

A primary challenge has been to add safety features while not alienating teenagers, the Journal reported.

Another problem is skepticism from the rest of the Internet industry, the paper said. One big question is whether the service would violate users’ privacy rights; another is whether other people besides parents could use the software to monitor children, the Journal said.

The privacy question prompted social networking site Facebook and blogging site Xanga to decline to join MySpace’s efforts, the paper reported.

Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and AOL have not said whether they would join the effort, the Journal said.

MySpace said in December that it would start offering technology to identify and block convicted sex offenders. The service would cover about 46 state sex offender registers.

MySpace also requires members over 18 years old to know the e-mail and first and last name of any 14- or 15-year-old members whom they want to contact.

PUNTA GORDA- A 34-year-old man who set up a drug deal with undercover police on MySpace.com was arrested Tuesday, officers said.

James Brian Johnston, of the 500 block of Myrtle Street, was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, a felony. Through the popular networking Web site, Johnston contacted an undercover officer posing as a 20-year-old woman and agreed to meet him at The Pines of Punta Gorda with several marijuana cigarettes, according to a Punta Gorda Police Department arrest report.

When detectives spotted Johnston’s red Oldsmobile, they conducted a traffic stop and found one marijuana cigarette inside, the report states. Johnston admitted he was attempting to deliver the drugs.

Johnston was being held at the Charlotte County jail with bail set at $2,500.

TIS the season to receive Christmas cards and a growing number of them, conveniently, will come via the internet.

There’s only one problem: some of the emails promising an e-greeting from a friend or family member may instead be from a scam artist intent on obtaining your bank or credit card information.

Stu Elefant, senior product manager for anti-virus company McAfee, says the danger is at this time of year people are more likely to click on these greetings in their email inbox. “There is more cybercrime because peoples’ defences are down. They are in a more trusting mood, thanks to the holidays, and they are looking online for bargains,” he says.

Increasingly clever cybercrooks realise more people than ever will shop online this year, as well as seeking to save postage – and time – by emailing Christmas cards.

Christmas sales in the US are up 23 per cent, to about $10.63 billion, compared with a year ago, says Gian Fulgoni of ComScore Networks, which tracks web activity. Those figures are from November 1 to 24.

Christmas cybershopping will steadily increase over the next few weeks. But as more people turn to the internet for at least some of their holiday purchases – or simply for comparison shopping – more crooks are tracking their movements.

The average loss per phishing scam grew from $328 in 2005 to $1590 in 2006, according to a November report from research firm Gartner. Losses stemming from such attacks reached more than $3.5 billion this year, Gartner found.

In Australia, a scam was uncovered in late October by Exploit Prevention Labs that was perpetrated through e-greeting cards. According to a TechNewsWorld story, accounts at nearly every Australian bank were affected when a major cybercrime group used fake Yahoo greeting cards to infect computers with malicious software that tracked keystrokes on PCs. This so-called keylogger software was used to steal credit card numbers, bank account usernames and passwords.

Numerous computer users have noted a marked increase in e-card-based spam email lately. The subject line typically reads, “You’ve received a greeting from a family member” or “You’ve received an animated postcard”.

The text inside these phishing email messages asks people to “click here” to see the card. Phishing scams are an attempt to trick people into revealing personal information. If they click on these links, they could unwittingly download software used to separate users from their hard-earned cash.

Elefant warns people to only open messages from people they know. If in doubt, he warns, don’t open it.

Crooks are exploiting what security professionals like to call “social engineering”, Elefant says. Because humans are social beings, they’re more likely to open an email they think is from a friend or family member than something unfamiliar. “Social engineering is more prevalent this time of year because people want to click on an internet greeting card or get a better deal at a store online,” he says.

People also are helping the crooks more than before. The growth of social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and even YouTube are helping cybercriminals target computer users. A crook may send a message to a user and write, “Hey, I saw your video at YouTube about skateboarding. If you want a new skateboard, come check out the deals at my site.”

Another reason for the online crime wave, according to the Harris survey, is that few people adequately secure their computers. The survey found that 74 per cent of people do not install a hardware firewall and 53 per cent don’t use a software firewall. Only 22 per cent had installed a proper suite of security software.

MySpace has been hit by a worm that exploits the Javascript cove of Apple QuickTime media player which lures users into a phishing scam. The worm causes users to click on faked links on a MySpace profile which directs them to a phishing site which attempts to get users to enter their MySpace login details.

The worm not only replaces legitimate links on MySpace.com user profiles with links to the phishing site, but it also manages to root infected videos into the victims’ profiles. The worm has already infected hundreds of user profiles, which have now been pulled down by MySpace. Further, the worm is infecting MySpace profiles with such efficiency that an informal scan of 150 such profiles found that close to a third of these were infected.

MySpace has asked Apple to fix the Javascript flaw in QuickTime. Javascript code and its variants such as AJAX, which execute applications on client computers, is an increasingly important part of the Web 2.0 services revolution, but has been criticized by many security experts as a target for attackers to worm their way into unsuspecting target computers.