PHISHING Scams on Mylot
@sarahbeth1977 (384)
United States
January 28, 2007 9:58am CST
Hey everybody - how do you report someone who never posts but only messages? Recently I received a phishing scam email where they say they're from West Africa and they want such and such information so that they can move money from one account to another. I've still got the message in my box in case anyone from the mylot police want to see it...but I want to report this person, but there are no posts on his/her page, and there's nothing where you can report private messages. What do you suggest I do?
3 responses
@GardenGerty (160696)
• United States
29 Jan 07
Send a direct message to myLot, just like you send a message to anyone else on your friends list.Tell them what you are telling us here in your discussion. At least you are smart enough not to get caught by a phishing scam. Hope others are smart enough as well.
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@sarahbeth1977 (384)
• United States
29 Jan 07
I've always tried not to give anyone any kind of information like that - but I will tell you this - when those first emails started coming out with the logos of suntrust or ebay or whatever on them, I was almost fooled - if it hadn't been for the mispellings or the links that were obviously bogus, i would have gotten scared and tried to logon. Who knows what would have been unleashed on my computer then!!
@sarahbeth1977 (384)
• United States
29 Jan 07
Yeah, I saw where you posted right after I posted - sorry for the repeat!! I was just so angry that I didn't know how to report him. How can you report him if he doesn't post? Is there a link somewhere?
@MichianaGuy (92)
• United States
28 Jan 07
OMG, those Africans......They are as bad as the Nigerian Lawyers, Microsoft Lottery, and the Yahoo Lottery. The scammers are EVERYWHERE!!! On MySpace, not only do you get crap messages, but now they have bots to steal your login info so they can spam through you. The "MySpace Trackers" are the worst of them. I always report that kind of junk to the website admins, cause then they can suspend/delete the user's account to keep it from continuing.
@sarahbeth1977 (384)
• United States
29 Jan 07
Man, am I glad I didn't try the myspace tracker thing now. I thought about it and wanted to try it, but wasn't really sure about it, as I'm always afraid of getting viruses on my computer. Even WITH several layers of anti-virus stuff, my computer got about 40 malware type things that said I couldn't delete them. They had write protected themselves somehow *argh*. I'm SO GLAD I didn't try that now!!
