MySpace Bulletins
An Easy Way To Control The Bulletins In Your MySpace Bulletin Board
Have you heard about bulletin spam? You may not call it that, though. There’s a really good chance that you just call it a bother. Another name for this annoyance is phishing. But, enough with all the different monikers! Let’s find out what we are dealing with here!
It all starts out innocently enough. You log on to your MySpace account, and notice that you have some new bulletins. The subject line will be similar to this -
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Curious, you open the bulletin and begin to read. Hmm. It’s asking you to click on a link, and says that when you do, you will get a nice free gift. Knowing better, but unable to resist the lure of something for nothing, you click on the link, and then stare at the screen, puzzled. “Why, that must have been the wrong link in that bulletin,” you think to yourself. “It has taken me back to the MySpace log-in page! Something must have logged me out of MySpace!” You hasten to log in again with your user name and your password. That’s where you innocently went wrong.
Had you looked up at the top of your screen in the space where you normally type a URL, you would have been able to see that you were not on the MySpace website at all. Instead, you have navigated to another site where a craftily clever person has duplicated the MySpace log in page.