As MySpace continues to grow, it also continues to attract con-men who have developed a phishing attack targeting music fans that highlights the evolving use of social engineering techniques in money-making spam emails. Junk emails 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 that pose as an online music store. The emails typically pose as MySpace contact emails, increasing the chances that teenage idiots will fall for it. There have been more than 50,000 of these emails over the past nine days. Originally targeting surfers in Japan, it’s now spread worldwide. Anyone dumb enough to attempt to purchase albums from these sites (offered at $2 or less) will find their credit cards rapidly melting down.
It seemed like a pretty good idea at the time!
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