My MySpace Days Are Over
By Steve Poland • December 3, 2007
I’ll likely let my profile sit there, but those days are over. The only comments I get anymore are from my “friends”, but are really bots that have hacked my friends’ accounts, and have posted comments on my page on behalf of my friends. I wonder how many people on MySpace realize they’ve been caught in a phishing scam — and thus, how many don’t have a private email anymore. I bet the number is high — like at least 5%.
It’s easy to get caught by the phishing scams — they are very deceptive on MySpace. You click a link that looks like a myspace URL, but really that’s just the sub-sub-sub-sub domain of some phishing site, then it shows a page that looks like MySpace and asks you to login [again], which isn’t a rare occurrence given that MySpace does that quite a bit. Then the user just gave their login credentials over to some hacker.
Literally the last 6 of 7 comments in the past 3 months have been hacked comments not by my friends. MySpace needs to do something to earn credibility… fast. (One idea: assign a few people to be finding all the spam, hacks, phishing activities going on — and erase all of those comment posts / links).
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nice… you got the chance to see ani live… (i can only assume the myspace profile comment not left by a spammer [to relate ;)] was referring to the ani surnamed difranco…) she rocks.
I manage a couple of myspace accounts with 12k+ friends in total (college related). I don’t even open the inbox in those accounts any longer to approve comments. At least 14 out of every 15 comments I get are spam messages from phished accounts at a rate of 10 per hour. People do leave many real comments for those profiles, but the sheer volume of spam makes it impossible to weed through. And that doesn’t include the basic message spam.
Same here. All of my friends must think that I’m dead. Can’t help it, Facebook is just smoother.
BTW, first time reader of your blog, loved it, subscribed, cheers!