FriendStatus.com Phishing Scam Targets MySpace Users
The term “FriendStatus.com” appeared on Google Hot Trends for September 12, 2007 and yet there were no news reports. HitsUsa.com has written an analysis of FriendStatus.com and considers it a phishing scam targeting MySpace users:
This scam involves phishing people into giving their email and password to find out the private information, pictures, or video that are supposedly on the site. When you do, their scripts grab your email and password, then instantly login to MySpace and send fake bulletins to all your friends that do the same thing.
What people don’t realize is that the bulletin that brought you to FriendStatus.com is grabbing your MySpace information from your own profile and adding it to your version of the bulletin that you are looking at…
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