Phish on Friday: Free Gift?

MySpace has been in the news recently thanks to an identity-stealing virus masqueraded as a $500 Macy’s gift card.

The scam targets younger users through an email that appears to be from one of their MySpace friends. The embedded link redirects the recipient to a fake MySpace log-in where they are asked to re-enter their username and password. The phisher then takes this
Information to scam their friends with excessive SPAM, without the user even realizing. There are believed to be thousands affected by this scam – which has now been corrected, according to MySpace representatives.

As mentioned in yesterday’s article, the lesson here is to be cognizant of the information put on the channel and to make sure your web safety best practices are applied through this channel as well as online.

Happy Friday!