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There's a rather nasty scheme being used on Facebook right now (and it would be easy enough to adapt to myspace, too):

...In Rutberg's case, criminals managed to steal his Facebook login password, steal his Facebook identity, and change his page to make it appear he was in trouble. Next, the criminals sent e-mails to dozens of friends, begging them for help.

"Can you just get some money to us," the imposter implored to one of Rutberg's friends. "I tried Amex and it's not going through. ... I'll refund you as soon as am back home. Let me know please."

Like all Facebook messages, the pleading note appeared right next to a picture of Rutberg, making it all the more convincing.

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2009/01/post-1.html#posts

someone recently hacked into sister's hotmail account and sent the same message out to many people in her address book.

True.
Happened around here too.
Apparently Hotmail is easy to hack.

The Internet: Your information at someone else's fingertips.

MySpace has been hacked before, too.

Never click on a link that comes into your email box. Always go to the site directly.

I'll deffinitley let my friends at school know b/c I think they all use facebook and myspace.

You would think that if you were in THAT much trouble, you wouldn't depend on facebook to ask for help...
How about picking up the phone????

SOME of my facebook friends I speak with daily, so I don't get how people would fall for this? You would think others would at least verify, or speak with others regarding this before sending money????

MDown wrote:You would think that if you were in THAT much trouble, you wouldn't depend on facebook to ask for help...
How about picking up the phone????

SOME of my facebook friends I speak with daily, so I don't get how people would fall for this? You would think others would at least verify, or speak with others regarding this before sending money????

<------ thinking the same thing.

SMLCHNG wrote:

MDown wrote:You would think that if you were in THAT much trouble, you wouldn't depend on facebook to ask for help...
How about picking up the phone????

SOME of my facebook friends I speak with daily, so I don't get how people would fall for this? You would think others would at least verify, or speak with others regarding this before sending money????

<------ thinking the same thing.

You would think people would communicate a quick message by making a quick phone call also.....however, many people today choose to send it by typing out a text message that takes them 5 minutes to type when he could be verbalized in 30 seconds (or less). Who knows what some people think????