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brandon1234 @comcast.net 1 edit from: xmrocks	huge myspace phishing scam at the moment there's a large phishing scam circulating around myspace there are a lot of fake profiles setup like »www.myspace.com/118474060 that have really authentic looking login screens the login info is sent to an external site judging by wget \| wc it looks as though nearly 700,000 people have been duped by this so far
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Wow, that's an impressive list. But 700,000 isn't all that surprising considering the fact that most MySpace users are, well, idiots.

What kind of stuff are these accounts being hijacked for? There's no financial information on MySpace - nothing worth stealing, IMO.
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What kind of stuff are these accounts being hijacked for? There's no financial information on MySpace - nothing worth stealing, IMO.

Maybe they are stealing the "oh-so cool backgrounds" the idiots of MySpace are using these days

MySpace is such an eyesore!

I guess if the MySpace user uses the same login, as brandon1234 mentioned as eBay/Paypal/their e-mail service, the e-mail address could be stolen and used to send out more phishing and/or scam e-mails that have more value to them (i.e. for banking, etc).

Or maybe it's just the pride oh saying "Yeah, I stole X amount of MySpace passwords!"

Edit: Just to prove my point (not that it needs to be or whatever), I picked a random user in that list, went to their e-mail server site, entered in their e-mail address and password and I'm now into their e-mail.

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removed Crisis Management Squad Premium,VIP join:2002-02-08 Houston, TX clubs:	Re: huge myspace phishing scam Hmm, that's a very interesting point. Out of 700,000 harvested accounts at least 5% of them are bound to have an active PayPal account. 5% of 700,000 = lots and lots of disputed PayPal charges.
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brandon1234 @comcast.net from: xmrocks	was wondering the same thing myself. i guess they could be hoping that some people have the same info for ebay/paypal/etc, but then again everyone on myspace is like 13 and has nothing worth taking
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28482647 Premium join:2003-05-13 England	Oh dear :\| Anyone reported it or anythin?
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Oh dear :| Anyone reported it or anythin?

Yes the news has been passed to on to them.
Hopefully they will quickly write a script to take down all the fake pages and block new ones.
This isn't going to help the 700k+ people in the list whose email/password combinations are now pocketed, however.
Will MySpace grab the same archive file the phisher has already got, and inform everyone by email to change their passwords on other sites, if they share the same password?

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28482647 Premium join:2003-05-13 England	Re: huge myspace phishing scam MySpace is a heap, I doubt they even care tbh. It's wild how users can edit their pages so much so that it can be faked like that. :\
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brandon1234 @comcast.net	amazing that those pages are STILL up now....
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xmrocks Premium,MVM join:2003-09-23 clubs: ·Comcast	Re: huge myspace phishing scam MySpace was never known for security. I am willing to bet that they'll still be up tommorow, too, unfortunately. It honestly doesn't surprise me one bit. There's really no excuse for them to still have the page up, though. They were warned about it. -- I don't tolerate phishing - >>phishtracker
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icex _ Premium join:2004-05-22 USA clubs: 1 edit	fyi for anyone that wants to know the fake login link website is »:xxxxx -- Team Discovery mod edit: There isn't a good reason to post the link
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exocet_cm I am the law Premium join:2003-03-23 New Orleans, LA clubs: ·Cox HSI ·Suddenlink ·Cingular Wireless ·AT&T Southeast ·Charter Pipeline 2 edits	Re: huge myspace phishing scam said by icex _ : fyi for anyone that wants to know the fake login link website is »:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I just dug around and was about to post the same thing. Edit: It looks like that site might also be involved in a watch scam. Google it. -- "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons..." - T.S Eliot I'll take "things only I know" for a thousand Alex.
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garys_2k join:2004-05-07 Farmington, MI ·Future Nine Corpor.. ·Vonage	Re: huge myspace phishing scam said by M A R K : How do we now what to even look for? If it's a myspace login the url should be "login.myspace.com" and nothing else.
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