As social networking sites continue to grow in popularity and their user base expands beyond savvy early adopters, such Web 2.0 offerings are becoming more and more the targets of scammers and phishing.
MySpace.com (Google partner and owned by Fox Interactive) has inherited the role of playing guinea pig in this arena, due to its checkered past and popularity amongst unsuspecting casual Internet users.
The Associated Press reports:
Vote for this post : 0Managing the risks that come with rapid growth is an enormous challenge for MySpace, now part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. media conglomerate. The site can’t afford to drive away users, who might defect to one of a growing number of alternative sites, or advertisers, who pay top dollar to reach the growing MySpace audience.
A key reason behind the popularity is its ease. Simply by adding a few lines of computer code, users can create elaborate profiles and personalize them with photos, music and video. A host of communication tools makes it easy to send messages to one person or a whole list of friends, who number into the thousands for some of the more popular MySpace users.
Those same tools can be used by vandals to make it look like an innocent user has sent spam to the same long list of “friends.”
Programmers are writing scripts that take advantage of specific features on MySpace, including “friend request,” where one user asks to be added to another user’s list of buddies.
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jose on Dec 28, 2006 at 7:37 pm
my whole myspace screen change colors n said sumthing bout google.also on the bulletins there r spam sayin i won a laptop or psp
charles on Dec 29, 2006 at 6:52 am
i have been a member of myspace for some time now. and i enjoyed it for a while. now there are people (women from ghana) that is trying to get men to send them money. do not fall for this. it is a scam there are women from russia that are doing the same. and here in the u.s.a they are trying to get you to use a credit card to prove your age, to get u on there web cam. how do a credit card prove that you are of age.
~*Kara*~ on Dec 29, 2006 at 12:17 pm
Pplz are goin to my name and thwy sign in and then they go to my friends and go to there page and leave mean commentz
Daniel on Dec 29, 2006 at 1:22 pm
Ive had myspace for a while now. and now my friends are putting scams up like I won a PSP, guess who got naked again, look what game into my mail. ect. i got really tired of it. i told them to change there pass. so they changed it. and there still sending scams.
Tyrone on Dec 29, 2006 at 6:14 pm
I’ve been a member for a hot min. now but for some reason i can’t log in. I tried to log in and it’s not working. Can someone please help me out
rachal on Dec 29, 2006 at 7:09 pm
i dont know my password for myspace.com
anita on Dec 29, 2006 at 8:36 pm
there is a person name kiyah honoratus that will take ur money and nevery send u the puppy that u are to buy. she sometimes go by the name brittany schwietcz.she will give u a wrong address she is not even from U S. i think she is from AFRICA. DONT BUY ANYTHING FROM HER.
~**ReNEe**~! on Dec 29, 2006 at 9:57 pm
ive been a mamber for a while now then all of a sudden it just wont let me sign in can nebody tell me what to do…..!!!!
Robbie on Dec 30, 2006 at 12:25 am
i want to know why you cant send friends emails when signing up a new account. Each time i tryed to sign up a new friend account i try to send emails to them and every time i get a message saying that verify address. i did this like 3 times and still when i tryed to email friends it still pops up why??????//
WENDY on Dec 30, 2006 at 2:01 am
someone changed my password to my myspace and my regular email…then I made a new myspace page and now someone got into my profile…edited it..deleted all my beautiful page that i took days to put together and ADDED in different NASTY PICS…., videos, songs, saying, interests…everything! It was horrible. What can I do to prevent hackers. I changed my privacy settings to friends only will that help a lot or are they going into our hotmail emails too???
JM on Dec 30, 2006 at 2:41 pm
DO NOT fall for any of the b.s. you see on MySpace. Everyone should know what bulletins are legit and NOT legit. If anyone thinks they can can f*** with my profile, then man, they don’t know who they are f****** with!!!!!
Shawn on Dec 30, 2006 at 2:43 pm
PEOPLE!! All you MySpace users need to do when logging into your MySpace account is check the top of your screen for MySpace.com or http://myspace.com. If it says this, then it is the true MySpace screen and NOT the B.S. one!! If you are unsure, log OFF the computer and try it again!!
tom on Dec 30, 2006 at 2:45 pm
i have been noticing some weird activities on my page sometimes peolple start yelling at me for no reson. because i have sent then bad and rude comments and i see that i havent
meranda on Jan 1, 2007 at 5:45 pm
hay i had a myspace and when i sign on it gos straght where u make another i
where u sign up agian and i tryed to sign up agian and it wont let me what do i do
meranda0189@myspace.com on Jan 1, 2007 at 5:47 pm
ive been a mamber for a while now then all of a sudden it just wont let me sign in can nebody tell me what to do…..!!!!
Timothy on Jan 2, 2007 at 3:31 am
I have had myspace for 4mon. Beware of people you do not know asking to be added as a friend.
Rhonda on Jan 2, 2007 at 10:21 am
report your friends myspace if it has been jacked with. thats the only way the website can track down the ***holes that keep pulling this crap!!!!!!!!!!!
todd on Jan 2, 2007 at 1:27 pm
If you click on someone’s page and it appears you have logged off! And the site asks you to re-Logon your information! DON”T DO IT!!! Close your Browser go back to MySpace Home Page to make sure you’re not on a SCAM Site!!! Don’t be fooled!!!
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 stolen, 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 aren’t 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 bulletin by clicking “Reply to Sender” and then COPY AND PASTE the whole message into a new bulletin.
Let’s keep profile thieves from stealing our profiles and our friends’ profiles!
****Thank you for reading.. people have obviously been stealing some of my friends’ info, so let everyone on your friends list know about this. Some people on myspace have no lives apparently.. grow up guys. There’s also a life “outside” of myspace.****
PLEASE COPY AND REPOST THIS TO YOUR BULLETIN AND LET ALL YOUR FRIENDS KNOW ABOUT THIS.
yuel on Jan 2, 2007 at 3:23 pm
what’s upblood
ashbite on Jan 2, 2007 at 6:22 pm
myspace is becoming so hightech hackers will do anything to steal your info….u should frequently change your password just to be on the safe side!!! tell your friends when they have weird and nasty bulletins and never click on links that u are unsure of
KALA on Jan 2, 2007 at 6:52 pm
SOME ONE TOOK MY PAGE
Patty on Jan 3, 2007 at 11:53 pm
I am tried of these people messing with my page. They took some stuff away from me and now I can’t do somethings like I used to.. I just don’t understand. Why bother me I just like to go on and have fun and make friends. Can’t do that when a..holes have to ruin for people like me . I am sure there are others that feel the same.
JK on Jan 8, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Psh yea…some person by the name “Nathan” been hacking into people’s page…so watch out…
maegan on Jan 10, 2007 at 10:39 pm
for some reason i cant log into my myspace. it says my password is the wrong one. but i never changed it. i tried to send my password to my email but i forgot the password to the email ( i hadnt used it in along time ) well anyways i really dont wanna start a whole new myspace. so if anyone knows how i can get my password..that would be great. just send me a email. thanks alot.
Mya on Jan 11, 2007 at 4:59 am
I’ve had many friends who have had those stupid bulletins posted on their account. One guy I knew, I told him that before and he still wouldn’t change his account information. Finally he changed it when almost all of the people on his friends list got like 3242014 comments from him promoting a myspace tracker. The way the comment looked, you couldn’t even delete it. There was no delete comment link under it. My account and my friends account were both hacked into just today and some idiot sent me an email pretending to be Tom after he got my email from hacking and the address was Tom@Myspace.com This is not really Tom so be careful. In his email you could tell it wasn’t Tom b/c all he did was curse and insult. I reported that email to Myspace but I doubt anything will happen….So, you all should change your passes and emails if you see anything weird going on. Especially if the hacker knows you name, display name, and email. And check your codes for anything weird looking. Thats what happened to my friend and I. We had weird codes.
Kitty on Jan 12, 2007 at 12:03 am
oh my god you guys suck!!!!! And plus i was wondering were are good places to scam for free internet for the psp
Lauren on Jan 15, 2007 at 10:46 pm
thank you for the post re: KIYAH HONORATUS it saved me $200. I googled her name right before I left to complete the transaction! Her email address is Brittany Schwietcz…she is a FRAUD just like previous comments state!
msb on Jan 17, 2007 at 2:52 am
somethings fucked up wit my myspace account and its pissin me off why wont it let me log in!!!!!!!!!!!!
Foz on Jan 17, 2007 at 9:22 am
somethings fucked up wit my myspace account and its pissin me off why wont it let me log in!!!!!!!!!!!!
What can I do please help anyone . even with the right password I can’t log in please anyone help me!!!
King regards Foz
Samantha on Jan 26, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Someone hacked into mine and changed the password now i can get in.
And they basically stole it.
blah on Jan 27, 2007 at 6:13 pm
ur not rilly tom liat
blah on Jan 27, 2007 at 6:14 pm
UR NOT RILLY TOM LIAR
mary on Jan 30, 2007 at 3:01 pm
everytime i try to log onto my myspace it goes right back into the log in page. but when i went looking for my page it said i was online, and i wasn’t. please help
Rusty Morgan on Jan 30, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Same problem as some of the above. Suddenly I can’t log in - says you must be logged in to do that. Password is correct and sent to me. Can’t get a response from MySpace when sending e-mails to the contact address. Help.
Missy on Jan 31, 2007 at 1:42 am
I am having the same problem as Rusty Morgan. This has been going on for me for the last 2 days now and I dont get it!? I too have e mailed Myspace support and only got one response and all it pretty much told me is to make sure Im using the right name and password and I am. I never changed anything. But anyway, Im having the EXACT same problem that Rusty is so if anyone has a solution to this can you please e mail me at XxMissy_LynnxX@Yahoo.Com … Thanks so much in advance!
Jackie on Feb 1, 2007 at 10:14 pm
i am having the same problem also. ever since around january 26…a few days ago it has NOT let me log in. it keeps saying “you must be logged in to do that” i have done the same procedures emailing myspace and all that and they have been no help. again…if anyone knows how to fix this problem email me at jacquelinerae05@gmail.com. i had to go to the library tonight to get on!
Gabe on Feb 3, 2007 at 11:33 am
My myspace isn’t working really eaither. evertime I try to go to the home page it just says there’s some error. It will let me go on myspace and all, but won’t let me see the home page or people profiles. :(
Liz on Feb 3, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Same thing is happening to mine…won’t let me go to the home page and it won’t let me log in.
btom tom!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on Feb 4, 2007 at 1:21 am
i cant log in my account it takes me to some error screen and then i have to delete my cokies to reeneter myspace all my other friends can get in myspace tru my computer >
Derek on Feb 4, 2007 at 9:44 am
Helllo guys. I seriously need help, I keep getting error when typing in myspace.com. What’s happening? Please I need a response because someone important has something to say to me only on myspace.
Sasha on Feb 4, 2007 at 3:05 pm
SAME THING IS HAPPENING TO MINE. WHAT IS GOING ONNN!!!??????
Melissa on Feb 8, 2007 at 1:49 am
Same thing for me. it says you must be logged in to do that. password and email are both correct. how do i fix it?
Trena on Feb 11, 2007 at 4:33 pm
This is a REALLY strange thing! On my home computer, my son, my daughter and myself all have a myspace account. All of a sudden when my son & myself log in, we have all of my daughter’s friends, layout & so forth, but if we send a comment to someone it appears to be us w/ our default pic. All of the friends on the home page is not ours, but my daughters and if we go to edit friends, only our friends appear and we can edit but it takes us back to our daughters home page & friends In safe mode everything looks normal. Also, my son can log on to his account from a friends computer and everything is fine. Please help! I have tried everything from restarting computer to’ system retore’back to yesterday’s date (when it was working fine) OH BTW this all seemed to happen after my daughter downloaded MYSPACE INSTANT MESSANGER last night on Feb 10th….coincidence or not?
MARIAH on Feb 16, 2007 at 8:38 pm
I WAS ON MYSPACE JUST SIGNING ON AND I HAD A E-MAIL FROM ONE OF MY FRIENDS AND I CAN READ MY MESSAGES BUT I CANT REPLY TO IT OF SEND FRIEND REQUEST
WHATS UP WITH THAT
James on Feb 21, 2007 at 11:53 pm
hey! my question is this. ok i forgot my password to myspace, so i did the email me my password and it says no such email found. then i put the email in the search area where you can search for people on myspace by their email and my profile comes up. so now im confused wth is going on here. Any Help????
thanks
kelli on Feb 24, 2007 at 4:58 am
i recently changed my password and cant login now. i took a pic of myself and emailed it to them and cant get anybody to help me. the problem is the email i signed up with is no longer my email address. how do i get somebody ay myspace to help me. ive emailed them about 500 times. wtf!!!!
Moe on Feb 27, 2007 at 6:54 pm
I’m having trouble loggin in to my myspace account, I got on the other day with no problem, but later on that day I wasn’t able to get on, and ever since then I still haven’t. I clicked on forgot your password, and had it e=mailed to my address, and the same password is the same one i’ve been typing in. I know I’m entering in the correct password and screen name, i’m just not understanding why I’m not able to get on. My cousin uses my computer to log on, and she’s able to everytime. go to search to look at my profile(set to private) I haven’t been on since the 23rd. please somone help me. -Moe-
george on Mar 6, 2007 at 4:32 pm
i got myspace and when i logg in it wont let me it goes straight to “this page cant be displayed” and it wont let me edit my profile. like when u hit edit profile it goes you
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with nothing else on the page.??
so i was wondering if you can help me to be able to edit my profile?
elizabeth on Mar 20, 2007 at 6:45 pm
my myspace password wont get it…i’ve tried for three days already…if you can help track it down that would be very helpful..
elizabeth on Mar 20, 2007 at 6:50 pm
almost forgot can you reply to anamonterroza@yahoo.com same person from the above
gabrielle thomas on Mar 27, 2007 at 9:11 pm
i like this
gabrielle thomas on Mar 27, 2007 at 9:11 pm
i like this site
monica on Apr 22, 2007 at 9:12 am
myspace wont let me edit my profile. my layout is gone, and i tried to paste it back in my “about me” section but when i click edit profile my “about me” section isnt there.
so how do i get that back!!??
tonia on Jun 7, 2007 at 7:25 pm
hey umm yeah i cant get my password for myspace it says wrong password and my hotmail password is also changed!!!. by i do not know who so now i cant sent the password to my new hotmail can you please help me ? ….. :(
louise on Jun 23, 2007 at 3:37 am
i was asked 2 change my password on myspace and i did but i have forgoten it and it says it will send the password 2 my email account but i dont no the password 4 that email account, the 1 i thort it was isnt working plz help and email me!!! thnx
Catherine on Sep 18, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Everytime I try to log in to myspace it says “you must be logged in to do that” even though I type in the right password and username. Please help.
red on Oct 18, 2007 at 9:18 pm
I CAN NOT GET LOGED INTO THE SYSTEM. IVE BEEN USING MY PROPER ID AND PASSWORD BUT STILL I CAN NOT LOG IN. I DONT KNOW IF I SHOULD START A NEW ACCOUNT AND USE A DIFF NAME AND ID PLEASE TELL ME WHAT I SHOULD DO. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME.
elicia on Dec 23, 2007 at 5:17 pm
why cant i send a friends request or reply to messages???
robin on Dec 29, 2007 at 7:10 pm
all these problems i am reading are the same ones i have had. now some wanna be singer vanessa b has her big ass pic on my screen when i log on and off my computer instead of me and my husbands pic. how do i remove this?
Wanda Carraway on Feb 1, 2008 at 6:50 pm
I have this problem too!
Everytime I try to log in to myspace it says “you must be logged in to do that” even though I type in the right password and username. Please help.
Eileen Pene on Feb 18, 2008 at 11:33 pm
well its been a long time since i used my myspace that i actually forgot my password. I’ve tried gettin it back but myspace wont send it to my email. so if you can find a way to retrieve my password…let me know k…
Damon King on Aug 5, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Hi ive been a user of myspace for almost 3 YEARS!!! and i think someone hacked into it or something cuz my password is not working. ive tried everything but it just wont work. my myspace email is kingme@google.com its not usable and i dont have an email to retrieve my password at.?itried makin a profile on msn, yahoo, and google and using the email i created on those to retrieve my password on myspace but it wont work. if you could find a way i could get my password i would really appreciate it
cece on Aug 12, 2008 at 2:11 pm
As for the young lady that’s says she can’t send friends request or messages.you are most likely having this problem because you haven’t verified your email address with myspace..when u sign in it should be in RED writing asking for verification..make sure u know the password to the email you use with myspace otherwise go to your account settings and change your email to 1 that you can get into
Damon King on Aug 12, 2008 at 9:18 pm
The problem is i cant get into my myspace so i cant change my password. got any ideas
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