August 29th, 2009

from Nir Sofer, author of the free NirSoft tools ...

"In the last 2 months, I reported about a nasty phishing scam known as 'msn-blocked.com' that ask the users to type their MSN user name/password and then use their log-in details to connect the server of MSN/Live Messenger and send a fake invite messages to all the contacts of the user.

This Web site also send the users to msnpass.info Web site, which is used to sell my freeware MessenPass utility by using the payment system of Allopass. You can read more about this scam, in the previous posts of my Internet Scams section.

Until now, msn-blocked Web site was in french language, and targeted only users that speaks french.
But now the owner of this nasty scam decided to go international and created new versions of msn-blocked and msnpass.info Web sites in multiple languages, including English.

Since I discovered this scam, around 2 months ago, I tried to contact any company/ organization that can help to stop this scam right away, including well- known companies like Microsoft and GoDaddy. Unfortunately, it seems that these companies don't care that their services are used for Messenger spamming and phishing scams."



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