O Rly? MySpace is now letting users know they’ve been phished. The only problem, is that their detection is wrong. I left a comment on my friend’s profile that included an image. It was pretty clear cut. If that is all it takes for number one social network to restrict your account, then we have a problem.
[UPDATE] Learn how to prevent your MySpace account from being hacked, in this follow-up!
Here is what the “You’ve Got Phished” notice looks like:
I understand that false-positives might happen. Perhaps this slipped past their QA. Not having a means to verify this or submit feedback, is a real shame. You’d think that MySpace would have a corporate blog to communicate changes and collect feedback, but they don’t. Rest assured, you can contact them if you want to advertise on there. Why not let users know (in the form of a blog) about upcoming changes. Bulletins and account notices like the above are weak, misleading, and feel like ads.
Has spam and phishing on MySpace finally hit a breaking point? All my messages and friend invites in the past year have all been spam. Frankly, this annoyed me because it adversely impacted my experience and coined mistrust in connecting with people on the network. I think that they are scrambling to find a solution and honestly, many users will be affected.
Before any pro-MySpacers claim they have an “aggressive” stance against spam — Prove it. Besides only having poor communication to solicit user feedback, I just received another invite from a woman in NY who is apparently ‘on cam right now’. Their apathetic and ignorant approach to resolving problems early (such as spam) is why users are turning to other social networks.
What are your thoughts on MySpace phishing and spam?
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ahhh the same thing is happening to me right now and its annoying i keep changing my password a million times and keeps blocking and saying ive been phished
well my account got phished and i got the announcement on my home page and when i tried to click on the link provided aka “click here” all it does is take me to the login page and as a daily myspacer that really got me angry.
cause i found a way to change my password as tom says to through the account link
but ive changed it three times and it still says ive been phished i dont know if tom is aware of his link malfunctions but ive tried at a few different computers and they all end up doing the same thing… could you explain to me how i can stop it from saying that?
or is it tome for me to start a new account?
I received a i got phished message.
and it said to change my password.
so i clicked on the link and it signes me out
so i logged back on and instead of clicking the link i went to account settings and changed my password.
went back to home and still! i got the phished message
ive changed my password like 5 times and i still am locked
this is bs.
>:[
I have fallen to the phishing problem as well. I had my whole account compromised.
I contacted myspace and had to send a salute. After many attempts i managed to change my email and password for my profile through myspace support.
So i thought i fixed it right?Wrong!. The thing was that when i finally was able to log back into my profile it said that my account was blocked until i changed my password. (i thought to myself:thats the whole reason i contacted you guys;to change my password!)
So then i clicked on the “change your password” link and i tried to change it but it wouldn’t work. It said “unsuccessfull”. How frustrating!
I had a lot of friends and now they seem to be lost because my account is blocked.In the meantime i am using facebook to make up for the loss of myspace. I would still like to use myspace though as i have some old friends that i cant find on facebook.If anyone has any advice on this i would appreciate it
cheers!
OMG that happended to me,
and then once i changed my password i was never to get back in,
i can i get back into my old myspace
@Pedro
were you able to get into your myspace account?
i think there is a very strong possibility that myspace is f’cking with certain people. i don’t think this is a mistake AT ALL. even if they aren’t targeting certain individuals, this is a *perfect* way for myspace to log a massive database of alternative passwords for the population into a central database.
rupert murdock just bought dow jones & company, which owns marketwatch.com this has some extremely curious implications.
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I am done with my space.
In the last month I got 3 time the phisted thing.
The problem is that they are wrong.
I have been extra carefull not to click in any links in my space page.
I always log in in my space throught the same link in the firefox toolbar.
No way I could have been phisted.
In fact I only visited my space once a week or less.
They made me change password.., and 3 minutes later…, I was asked to change password AGAIN.
That is something very wrong in my space.
There is no way my account get phisted due to an error of mine.
How come that I managed to unblock my account.., I log out.., I log in making sure I was loging in the right my space account..,and my account got phisted again , 2 minutes after I unblock it ?
There is something not working in my space
well ive tried the changing passwords and doing a salute 2 times. i still havent heard a thing from anybody and still cant log in to my account. do u know what the problem is?
well ive tried the changing passwords and doing a salute 2 times. i still havent heard a thing from anybody and still cant log in to my account. do u know what the problem is?
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