Apparently, someone got my MySpace password and sent spam emails to a bunch of my friends, resulting in my account being blocked. The strange thing is that MySpace didn’t even bother to send me an email telling me I’d been blocked. I mean, you’d think it’d be common courtesy to at least let me know before I logged into my account and saw a giant message from Tom about how I’d been phished.
But I don’t think I really was phished. Yes, someone got hold of my password and spammed people, but I haven’t logged into MySpace in weeks, and I always make sure that I’m logging into myspace.com, not some poorly spelled doppelgänger. Of course, I might have been less sure at some point, but it sure wasn’t recently, and I can’t imagine someone getting my password and waiting a week or two before doing anything with it. I suppose they could have been playing around with other peoples’ passwords before coming around to mine…
Anyways, even if I wasn’t phished, someone managed to hack into my MySpace account, which really worries me. Luckily, nothing in my profile or account was changed, so I’m beginning to suspect some kind of spam bot instead of a real person. Still, it’s a good lesson about how unsafe the Internet really can be. And yet MySpace still won’t let you have a password longer than 10 characters…
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Same thing happened to me as well.
Ahhhhhhhh, the joys of MySpace.