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Have you seen the Tractor Supply Company commercial about the free puppy?

A man says “My neighbor gave my daughter a puppy,” and then describes how they’re now buying toys, food, dishes, etc. The actor smiles and says “It’s like my dad always said: there’s no such thing as a free puppy!”

Well, this couldn’t be closer to the truth when it comes to the latest Nigerian ‘email’ scam: pets. Even worse, this genre of scam is rearing its ugly head on MySpace.

The American Kennel Club and the Council of Better Business Bureaus issued a joint press release on May 29th regarding this situation. A victim in Pittsburgh has described her experience in news stories in the LA Times and on WTAE Channel 4 Action News.

Here is an example ad that has been determined to be fraud by the Council of Better Business Bureaus.

“Lovely English bulldog puppy needing a loving and caring home, full of wrinkles, she is up to date on all her shots. Fine with kids and other pets, AKC and will come along with all her papers and toys, she will make the best house pet, will bring much love and joy to your home or family. Contact for more if you want to add her to your family.”

Chances are, there will be pictures included.

The rest of the scam goes like this:

1. There are shipping fees to get the puppy to the US (usually a couple of hundred dollars). You will be asked to wire these funds.

2. The seller will inform you they can’t ship the puppy because apparently there are also shots that are required for international travel. You will be asked to wire these funds.

The list goes on. The money flows out. And the dog? It doesn’t exist.

Written By Tina Parcell

The number of page views garnered by fraudulent sites climbed by a factor of five in March and April, fueled by a phishing scheme targeting MySpace users, stated a Google analysis published on Monday.

The attack used a modification to the style sheet of a user’s profile to place a transparent image over the page, causing a click on a link — or anywhere else on the page — to redirect the visitor to a fake MySpace login page, Colin Whittaker of Google’s Anti-Phishing Team, stated on the search giant’s security blog.

“The effectiveness of the attack and the increasing sophistication of the phishing pages, some of which were hosted on botnets and were near perfect duplications of MySpace’s login page, meant that we needed to switch tactics to combat this new threat,” Whittaker stated.

Phishing — using fake e-mail messages and Web pages dressed up with the brand names of trusted corporations — have increasingly been used to trick victims into giving up their valuable information. An e-mail posing as a complaint from the Better Business Bureau has recently been targeting the executives as small- to medium-sized business in a scam designed to shake free usernames and passwords from key corporate personnel. While the current attack spreads virally through MySpace, actual viruses and worms have been created for the social networking site.

“While a MySpace account does not have any intrinsic monetary value, phishers had come up with ways to monetize this attack,” Whittaker said. “We observed hijacked accounts being used to spread bulletin board spam for some advertising revenue.”

In mid-April, MySpace changed their server side code to disable bad links in users’ profiles and the traffic to known phishing sites dropped down to its pre-March levels, he stated.

Article from SecurityFocus

We have come to find out that this profile watcher is still on the loose. Do not use any profile watchers or trackers. All they will do is steal you MySpace login information and put a virus or spyware onto your computer. The safest bet is to not add untrusted code to your myspace page. You never know who will try to abuse it.

If you have already downloaded and installed the Profile Watcher, you need to remove it immediately and then change your myspace password.

If you are having trouble removing it then try using a spyware solution or antivirus to run a scan for the remaining program.

Technical Information:
1. COVERT ANALYSIS OF: Profile Watcher

* File Names Used: 8
* Paths Used: 6
* Common File Name: MUBILY08.EXE
* Common Path: %CACHE%\CONTENT.IE5\????????\
* Vendor Information: ZeroPoint Search Solutions
* MUBILY08.EXE may use 8 or more path and file names, these are the most common:
* 1 :%DOCUMENTS%\PORN\PROFILEWATCHER_SETUP.EXE
* 2 :%DOCUMENTS%\PROFILEWATCHER_SETUP.EXE
* 3 :%DOCUMENTS%\PROGRAM DOWNLOADS\PROFILEWATCHER_SETUP.EXE
* 4 :%TEMP%\18ZO19OF.EXE
* 5 :%TEMP%\MUBILY08.EXE
* 6 :%TEMP%\QF0XP27P.EXE
* 7 :%TEMP%\YEGN7HV1.EXE
* 8 :?:\TEMP\6GBWBF4O.EXE
* File Name Structure: Common
* File and Path Structure: Suspicious, code execution from unusual location

2. RELATIONSHIP ANALYSIS OF: Profile Watcher

* No relationship details available for this object

3. ACTIVITY ANALYSIS OF: Profile Watcher

* The following behaviors have been observed for this object:
* Runs temporary programs.
* Runs other programs.

Raiders fans have never been accused of being classy (or smart), so it figures that they would take out their frustrations on the MySpace page of Randy Moss. Most of the language was pretty blue, but pretty much what you would expect to hear in the Black Hole. So this kind of thing was expected. Actually, it would have been an upset if the Raiders fans didn’t react this way.

But what is the best part of all of this? That the Raiders would resort to the tactics typically reserved for teenage girls that have been bashed on the Internet meeting place. Seriously, how old are you guys, 10? Or the fact that the page probably doesn’t belong to Randy Moss at all?

Either way, you have to love those knuckleheads.

California may join Kentucky and Virginia in passing a law that gives the identities of registered sex offenders to social Internet groups such as MySpace.

The proposed legislation is California’s attempt to monitor sex offenders who troll chat rooms looking for young victims.

The plan would require registered sex offenders to report their e-mail addresses and Internet identities to the state which, in turn, would give them to MySpace and other social networks to block participation, the Sacramento Bee reported Monday.

The legislation is similar to proposed federal legislation and to new laws in Kentucky and Virginia.

Supporters call the legislation timely because online chat rooms and social internet groups are wildly popular. MySpace has about 100 million visitors per month, the Bee said.

Critics argue the legislation would infringe upon the free-speech rights of convicts who have not acted suspiciously and that predators easily could change their e-mail or instant message addresses.

We have decided to go ahead and implement a forum into MySpaceScams.com We have been receiving many requests and emails and figured we ought to have the MySpace community involved. Please feel free to post what you know and help keep each other safe on MySpace.

Visit the forum.

“Oh, my fault I must have gave you the wrong link then. The people I use to make make money should be here
Click Here . Well I hope it works for you this time, remember that if the site is not up they are not excepting anyone else. I told you I’m making about $900 a week and it’s consistent. Just make sure that you take taxes into consideration, it’s a little different than that job your always complaining about.

LOL anyways that is funny about Laura, what else did she say about it? I’m not even going to worry about it ya know? Oh well, call me later or I’ll catch you on here, see ya.”

hey cutie,were you the one sending me the messages asking me about how i make money on the internet? did katie tell you about it or something? i usually try to keep it quiet because i don’t want that many people in on it…well, basically all i do is sit at home and fill out these ridiculously easy surveys on the computer that companies such as best buy, sears, walmart, etc. send me.they want my opinion on lots of things including their customer service, my eating habits, what i plan on purchasing in the 6 months - really easy stuff. the best part about it is that I get paid between $75-$125 PER SURVEY. at one time i was filling them out and I did 2 in an hour and made $218.34. that’s just in an hour, i made more than my mom and dad combined in one hour! what’s funny is that i actually use to work at mcdonalds. waking up for the morning shift is what really made me mad :( now i can sleep in until whenever i want, and fill out a few surveys before i go to college. the companies pay me by check every 2 weeks.i just bought this sweet 50″ flat screen tv and most of my friends are starting to think im a drug dealer or something LOL. remember i told you i don’t tell that many people about it? that’s because i think if more people start doing it, i will have less surveys to do, so don’t tell anyone either.what’s funny is that everyone sits on myspace all day and fills out those stupid surveys for free…LOL, while I get paid for doing the same thing! anyway, i hope i have this link right here it is: http://www.spaceperfected.com/ezcb i hope that is how you do the link part, anyway be sure to go to that site now because they are running some special half price offer for 3 more days only…just copy and paste this into your browser http://www.spaceperfected.com/ezcb