What Is MySpace Phishing?
Even MySpace has problems with phishing and MySpace phishing is still on the rise as we write this article. Certainly the problem of identity theft through phishing is becoming much more widespread than many people think. Even sites like MySpace are now susceptible to those individuals who whish to gain hold of other people’s personal or confidential data.
If you are one of the few people who has not heard about “phishing”, then you will need to know what it is so you don’t get caught out like hundreds of others before you have. Phishing is where someone will send out an email to others which the receiver will think has come from a genuine company (say for example eBay, PayPal or even their own bank) and is in fact a fake. Upon receipt of the email the person is requested to click on a link contained within it and then they are sent to a website (which will look like the original version) and request their account or credit card details.
Certainly this kind of email fraud has been on the increase for some time and today there are some fraudsters who have managed to now create a fake login page for the MySpace website. With this login page they will have also created a free webpage as a way of trying to gain confidential information from those people who use MySpace. But they have also found another way in which they are now trying to gain people’s confidential information from this website. They are now attempting to post bulletins actually into people’s accounts that they have on MySpace. Therefore if you are someone who has suddenly noticed a bulletin showing up on your account, or there have been comments sent to your friend which you know that you have never sent, then in all likelihood this is a good indication that someone else has actually been able to gain access to your account.
In order to combat MySpace Phishing some people will change their password if they notice that someone else has been using their account. But unfortunately this does not always help to sort the situation out. Instead the people who have originally gained access to the account will continue to do so after the password has been changed. The main reason for this could be that the hint you are using to help you remember your password is something that other people find easy to guess. Also it may well be because they actually have access to your email account as well as your MySpace account so every time you change your password they will be notified by email just as you will be of the changes that you have made on your account. The best way to avoid this MySpace phishing situation is to ensure that the passwords you use for both your MySpace account and your email account are completely different from each other.
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