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Prevent people from hacking your myspace profile
Phishing, stealing your online identity on Myspace Stealing your online identity on Myspace

Have you noticed weird bulletins posted by your friends lately? Instead of surveys and games, it looks like they’re advertising ring tones for songs they don’t even like, or telling you to smoke pot when they’re not even a pot smoker? You may also see comments advertising a macy’s gift card worth money or receive a video in an inbox message. Video’s don’t travel through inbox messages unless they are from hackers. If you receive or see one of these don’t click on it and don’t try to respond using that link, but do try in a separate message all together to let your friend know, 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 user-name 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.

Protect Yourself from Profile Thieves Change your MySpace password right now – or right after you think you may have entered your password into a website that may have stolen your password. If you do it right after they stole it, they will not have the time to use your account information. 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.

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.

IMPORTANT:Make sure your new e-mail password and your new MySpace password aren’t the same ! (your online banking account should obviously have a unique password that you don’t use anywhere else) So you need three unique passwords at least: one for unimportant websites like myspace, one for your e-mail, one for your online banking. If you think myspace is important – make that four.

Never click on a link in a bulletin, message, or comment that looks suspicious. It’s probably a trap to steal your profile.

If it EVER looks like MySpace has logged you out, don’t enter your email and password. Instead, go to your bookmarked myspace.com to make sure you get on the real MySpace website and not a copycat site. If you see weird bulletins showing up from your friends, message or e-mail 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. Again: tell them to make sure to use different passwords for both.

Repost this page by clicking C and then COPY AND PASTE the whole message into a bulletin or blogpost.

Let’s keep profile thieves from stealing our profiles and our friends’ profiles!

Come and hear this great band! It will be there last gig for the year so Don’t miss out this band they will be at Coconut Joe’s!!

	Meanie Miney Moe
	Oct 18, 2007 2:53 PM
	Saturday at Coconut Joes
	Hey everyone! We will be performing at Coconut Joe’s on the Isle of Palms on Saturday October 20th from 7-11. This will most likely be our last show at Coconut Joe’s for the year. Come on out and party with us. Great times are always had out there on the Isle of Palms.

Inlyn Gruve Band

This is a local band that is from Myrtle Beach and they are a talented bunch and you have to go and check them out. They will be performing at Spuds Waterfront in Murrells Inlet SC, Saturday, October 20th with the LEGENDARY HALL OF FAME Philip Watson and Jeff Hall of THE BILL PINKNEY and the ORIGINAL DRIFTERS, has joined INLYN GRUVE, with Special Guest, THE NATURE BLU!! This is a show you don’t want to miss!! There is NO COVER, and CD’S will be on Sale, so come on down and see us Gruving to the music and shag till you drop!!

Next they will be at the Goose Creek Fall Festival on Saturday, October 27th – come down and have a great time listening and shagging to Inlyn Gruve music! Hope to see you there!!

Tune in to NAB Radio interview with Sacha Sacket!! This coming Saturday, Oct 6 – during DJ Eyebee regular show!! Don’t miss this great interview with Sacha Sacket another upcoming new artist that has people buzzing!

Hear Sacha Sacket explain why he named his current CD – Lover & Leaders – you can only hear it at NAB Radio – “Great Music, True Variety”

Keep listening to NAB Radio – we play ALL great, talented Indie artist and check out NAB Radio Blog too!

For everyone out on the other side of the Atlantic, DO NOT Miss this group!! They’re playing in Camden, you have to check them out… THEY ROCK!! Great talent and great music!!

From:	STRANGE A
Date:	Oct 2, 2007 3:13 PM
Subject:	Gig in Camden
	Hello, Our next gig is tomorrow at the Fiddler’s Elbow in Camden Date: Wednesday 3rd October Doors: 8pm Cost: £5 STRANGE A are on at 10.30pm Mirno are also playing, plus Stylust. Address: 1 Malden Road, London, NW5 3HS Tel: 0207 4853 269 Nearest tube: Chalk Farm. Venue details: http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/clubs_bars/venue-918.php See you there! Lots of love, STRANGE A

This band will be performing around the Dallas area!! Be sure to see them!! They ROCK!!

From:	1000 Miles From Home
Date:	Oct 1, 2007 8:04 AM
Subject:	This Saturday Dallas!!!
	We’re at Firewater with Venture, Moving Atlas, Maddox ,& Elocation for your Texas-OU party. Come early and watch the game on 10 screens and stay late for five bands on the outdoor stage and a DJ inside. We’ll hit the stage just after 9pm. Make sure to tell the girl at the door that you are there to see “1000 Miles From Home”, even if she doesn’t ask you. Firewater Bar & Grill www.firewaterdallas.com 10261 Technology Blvd E, Dallas, TX