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November 11th, 2007

The real story on the Macy’s gift card

Phishers Infiltrate MySpace With Gift Card Scheme:
I’m sure you’ve seen those comments that some people leave on MySpace promising a Macy’s Gift card. I just delete those comments but apparently some people are falling for it and are getting phished for their personal info.
The spam scam involves users unknowingly sending their MySpace friends e-mails and […]

By Trench -- 2 comments

January 15th, 2007

Tom hacked

MySpace’s Tom Hacked:
It seems that even the ubiquitous (it is too a word, look it up) Tom can have his MySpace account hacked. Tom’s account was hacked sending out millions of bulletin spam to his all his friends. Clicking on the link took users to a phishing site where they would be asked to log […]

By Trench -- 0 comments

March 31st, 2006

PhishSpace

MySpace target of hybrid phishing scheme:
No not that Phish (Phish broke up man?).MySpace is being used by phishers in order to steal your identity…
Users of the immensely popular MySpace.com social networking website are being targeted in a new “hybrid” phishing scheme aimed at stealing their identity, one security firm warned today.
Researchers at the Maitland, Fla.,-based […]

By Trench -- 1 comment