MySpace Phishing Scam Prompts Website Removal

22:02.00 - Saturday 17th March 2007   (Link to This Entry)

Over the past few days I've had over a million hits from MySpace.com - thousands and thousands of users clicking a link that leads them to a d04.net page. The page explained that the link they'd clicked had been disabled because it had violated our terms and conditions. Straightforward enough, right?

Evidently not for the MySpace crowd! I had hundreds of emails showing a varying level of spelling ability, all asking me why their precious MySpace pages had been blocked. I hadn't blocked a single person's MySpace page you understand - just the link to the fake site.

For doing this, I've been called a spammer and a hacker. I've been told I suck and that people are fed up with my shit. I've witnessed a whole gamut of badly-written pleading as people cry about their MySpace, claim they didn't do anything and won't ever do anything like it ever again, honest. I've even had people send me their login details asking me to fix things - what the hell's wrong with these people?

So anyway, d04.net is now offline and will remain so until I can be bothered to rewrite it all, making it even more restrictive and even more hassle for me to run - all because some people on the Internet can't be trusted. And this is why we can't have nice things.

You'll understand why I'm in no rush to resurrect it.

UPDATE: (Actually it's now Sunday, but what the heck)

It appears some of the MySpace users who can't read a URL have reported d04.net to McAfee Site Advisor which redirects you to a page reading:

"d04.net/ may try to steal your information. Why were you redirected to this page? We believe this site may be trying to trick you into entering your financial or personal information. This is a serious security threat which could lead to identity theft, financial losses or other dissemination of personal information. "

I've emailed them with an explanation and hopefully they'll have a real live human with a working brain look at the situation and ... ah who am I kidding?