General, MySpace News, Sexual Predators
Girl, 14, faces porn charge of MySpace pictures of herself
A TEENAGER is facing child pornography charges after posting nude photos of herself on her MySpace page. The 14-year-old girl from New Jersey was arrested after uploading 30 explicit images to the social network, according to US media reports. She posted her photos “because she wanted her boyfriend to see them”, a police spokesman said. Authorities arrested her [...]
General, Scams
Beware Car Sellers
We have seen the same scam over and over with people trying to sell there cars online. If you ae trying to sell your car and someone says they are from another country or far away and says that their “client” is interested in buying your car, Beware ! This scam has seen many variances [...]
General
MySpace phishing scam targets music fans
Con-men have developed a phishing attack targeting MySpace music fans that highlights the evolving use of social engineering techniques in money-making spam emails. Junk emails featuring the attack have been spammed out to thousands of computer users around the globe in the last week, to trick them into visiting one of a series of bogus websites [...]
General, Security
Watching your Teens MySpace page
Q What is the right age for my children to have their own MySpace profiles? How would you recommend monitoring their Web pages? A MySpace has more than 40 million members and gets about 15 percent of all the Internet hits in the country, so caution is advised. Officially a child has to be 14 to [...]
General
Woman’s Identity Stolen Off MySpace Account
A Liverpool woman hoping to keep in touch with family members who live outside New York did everything possible to protect her identity when she set up a MySpace profile. Somehow she still found herself the victim of identity theft and harrassment. When you create a MySpace account, all you need is an email [...]
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MySpace News, Sexual Predators
New MySpace tool will help block sex offenders
Posted on 05 December 2006
MySpace said it will develop technologies to help block convicted sex offenders. MySpace is partnering with Sentinel Tech Holding Corp. to build a database containing names, physical descriptions and other identifiable details on sex offenders in the United States. The News Corp. site, however, stopped short of adopting Sentinel’s technology for verifying the ages and identities [...] Continue Reading
Scams, Security
Holiday greetings from myspace scammers
Posted on 27 November 2006
Online scam artists send e-cards to get unsuspecting users to click on links, disclose personal information, and download potentially dangerous software. `Tis the season to start receiving greeting cards, and a growing number of them, conveniently, will come via the Internet. There’s only one problem: Some of the e-mails saying that you have an e-greeting card [...] Continue Reading
Sexual Predators
Man Charged With Trying To Lure Teen Using MySpace
Posted on 01 November 2006
Investigators said a local Pennsylvania man tried to lure a 14-year-old girl into a sexual encounter while out on bail in another Internet sex case. Dustin Pawlicki, 20, was arrested in September after agents from the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Child Predator Unit found him using the MySpace Web site to send a series of sexually graphic [...] Continue Reading
Spam Bulletins
Another Spam Bulletin
Posted on 06 October 2006
Subject: Bling Bling!! Body: I have good news. I tried out this website and it is definantly worth your time. You get 15 free ringtones! That’s right, FREE!!! Give it a try, I don’t know how long they will be offering this.GET THEM NOW! Appears that the link goes to a fake profile that redirects you to [...] Continue Reading
Sexual Predators
MySpace messages lead to arrest
Posted on 17 September 2006
BY FRANK MAIN MySpace.com touts itself as “a place for friends.” But a Naperville teenager discovered the social networking Web site also is a place for sexual predators, authorities said Friday. Gerald Wheeler, 40, is being held in Salt Lake City on federal charges of using MySpace to coax the 13-year-old girl to [...] Continue Reading
Security, Sexual Predators
BeNetSafe monitors childrens browsing habits.
Posted on 12 September 2006
Kids used to hang out in vacant lots, then in malls and now, online. BeNetSafe helps you to be a better parent by lovingly and effectively “chaperoning” your children online, just as you always have, offline. BeNetSafe will monitor your child’s information on the Internet and provide you with detailed reports and feedback alerting you to potentially [...] Continue Reading
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