MySpace users targeted by spam campaign
Phishers pose as online contacts to push bogus shopping sites.
A major spam campaign is bombarding inboxes with mails masquerading as messages from conacts on web social and
content-sharing site MySpace.
The mails pretend to come from someone linked to the victims via the network, spoofing the MySpace style
as well as sender info, and include links to faked music download sites. Users who attempt to buy from the
bogus sites find their financial details harvested and used to strip bank accounts.
The shopping sites are slickly made and offer an easy shopping expereince, as well as rock-bottom prices. The
campaign was first seen hitting Japanese users, but has since spread worldwide with over 50,000 instances
recorded by security firm Fortinet in little over a week.
Analysis of the campaign can be found at
Fortinet's site.
19 October 2006
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