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myspam™: the survey / anti-hackage advice massive
Category: Blogging

myspam™: the survey
Category: Quiz/Survey

so, in conversation with my roomates i just coined the term myspam™. i'm sure plenty of people have used this term, but i aint seen it in print. i'm sure myspace is going to start jerking me around here pretty soon, but i have become apathetic about mycontinuous™ existence onmyline™. i'm having fun, its my party, and i'll blog about myspam™ if i want to.

but really, i want to know something from you. most of us know about the increase of phished accounts used for myspam™™. have you gotten any that are really funny or interesting? beyond selling me natural male enhancement, or ringtones. i mean if thats all you get, that's cool. i still want to hear about it. i mean its not cool, but that's the point. you can also read the forward which has much good advice. or u can just revel in myspam™™™.

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Spam
By Lizard
Release date: By 27 April, 2006

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don't let your account be used to send me spam!!!
Category: Blogging

MySpace Hackers Repost
Body: This is about people who might try to hack your profile.

Better be on the safe side.


I read a bulletin yesterday that said HACKERS are going to launch a FULL THROTTLE attack on MySpace in April. But I've already seen an increase in accounts being HACKED......filling BULLETINS and COMMENTS with SPAM. It's going to take ALL OF US to fight back.....so follow some simple RULES.

1. CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD And don't use the same password for your email! Hackers can steal more than your MySpace if they get into your email!!

2. Change your COMMENT SETTINGS so you have to APPROVE any comments. If you see a suspicious comments about Ringtones, Single Women, Penis size, or any sort of ADVERTISING.........deny it immediately and send a MESSAGE to that person.....because they won't have any idea that they were HACKED!

3. READ YOUR BULLETINS!! BE PROACTIVE!! If you see those stupid bulletins about Ringtones/hot girls/etc....anything that you know was not sent by that person.........you know their account has been hacked......send them a message and tell them to change their password! Link back here if you must!

I have warned MANY MANY people.......some of their MySpaces are completely destroyed....eventually you won't even be able to LOG in to your account!


PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE ON MYSPACE!!

Have you noticed weird bulletins posted by your friends lately? Instead of surveys and games, it looks like they're advertising ringtones for songs they don't even like, or telling you to smoke pot when they're not even a pot smoker?

If so, it probably means their MySpace profile has been phished, and yours could be next.

Profile thieves are stealing MySpace profiles left and right so they can spam other people, and in some cases, they manage to steal more than just your MySpace.

Here's how they usually steal it:

They post a message, bulletin, or comment containing a Flash file. It might be disguised as a game, or lately there's one that says, "Click here if you like to smoke pot." But in reality, it's just a trap to steal your MySpace.

Without you realizing it, the Flash file automatically redirects you to a different website where the thief has set up a copycat of the MySpace login page. What it looks like to you is, "Oh, stupid MySpace logged me out again." And so you enter your username and password, and bingo -- they just stole your profile. Since you were on a copycat site, it didn't log you in. It just stored the email and password you entered in a big file, and now that profile thief is going to use your account to spam people.

But the danger doesn't end there. The person who stole your profile knows that you can always change your password and lock them out of your account. So now, they try to take over your profile entirely. If they see your email address ends in yahoo.com or hotmail.com, they go to your email login page and try to log in to your email account with the same password. Many people use the same password for their email account and their MySpace profile, and if you're one of those people, now the thief has access to your email, too.

And check this out -- once they have access to your email, they can start sending lost password requests to PayPal, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, eBay, or anywhere else you might have an account, and they can now reset your passwords on other systems, and even change the email address on your MySpace profile to their own address so you can never log in again!

Don't be fooled into thinking that MySpace will let you back in to your profile once it gets stolen and you can no longer log in.

If this happens, MySpace will ask you to send a digital picture of yourself so they can see if you are pictured in the account that you say was stolen. If the spammer has deleted all of the face pics in your profile (which they usually do), then MySpace won't do anything at all because you have no way to prove the profile is really yours.

But if they see your picture in the account you say was stolen, MySpace still won't give you access to the account -- they'll just DELETE IT. And now the spammer can't use it anymore, but you will have lost all of your messages, photos, and comments and you'll have to start all over again.

Here's how you can protect yourself from profile thieves:

1. Change your MySpace password right now. Even if you haven't seen weird bulletins yet, your account info may have been stolen already and the thief just hasn't used it yet. They steal thousands of profiles at a time, and yours could be sitting in some spammer's list just waiting to be hijacked.

2. Change the password to your email address right now. It's no good just changing your MySpace password, because if they can get into your email account, they can still steal your profile.

3. IMPORTANT: Make sure your new email password and your new MySpace password are not the same!

4. Never click on a link in a bulletin, message, or comment that looks suspicious. It's probably a trap to steal your profile.

5. If it EVER looks like MySpace has logged you out, don't enter your email and password. Instead, type 'www.myspace.com' in the address bar and hit enter to make sure you are still on the real MySpace website and not a copycat site.

6. If you see weird bulletins showing up from your friends, message them right away to tell them their profile has been stolen and advise them to change BOTH their MySpace password and their email account's password. Most people don't see the bulletins their account is posting until it's too late.

7. Repost this to all of your freinds! We must stop this!

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Contra los Roboticos Mutantes
By Spam Allstars