Phishing emails
Date: January 29, 2007Source: p2pnet.net
But it's always been primarily an advertising and marketing vehicle and now MySpace has also become popular with hard-core crooks engaged in phishing, a criminal activity whose practitioners, "acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business in an electronic communication," as the Wikipedia sums it up.
"We've seen myspace phishing attempts before and all the email scams before relied on sending the user to a myspace-layouted login site where he was asked to login," says Randolf Jorberg on Gulli, going on that a new scam is threatening the MySpace community and, "this time the bad guys upgraded to web2.0 and took phishing, spamming and viral marketing techniques to create a new dangerous mashup".
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