Monday, December 25, 2006

MySpace infested with spammers and other losers

MySpace.com has trully become a place where spammers rule. They lure users to sexually explicit sites, clog mailboxes with spam messages, and exploit users' trust when speaking to "friends" to obtain passwords that could lead to identity theft.

One recent scam works this way: A spammer posts a number of phony profiles featuring pictures of cute women, often promising nude photos.

A "friend request" with the woman's photo is sent to hundreds of users.

Once the fake profile loads, a blue screen descends, saying the profile is protected by the "MySpace Adult Content Viewer."

Unsuspecting users who try to download the viewer instead get a worm that installs adware on their computers.

Although MySpace tries to fight it but it is a lost battle because there are millions of spammers against dozens of MySpace employees.

Consider yourself warned when you use MySpace.

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