MySpace struggles to protect users from spams and scams

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MySpace struggles to protect users from spams and scams

12-27-2006, 11:23 AM,

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MySpace struggles to protect users from spams and scams

Quote:MySpace.com scams are on the rise
Thieves lure victims with explicit photos in profiles
Site created team that monitors unwanted posters
MySpace inched past Yahoo Inc. in page views last month

MySpace bills itself as a "place for friends."

Increasingly, it is also a place for unfriendly attacks from digital miscreants on the prowl.

They lure users to sexually explicit sites, clog mailboxes with spam messages, and exploit users' trust when speaking to "friends" to obtain passwords that could lead to identity theft...

full article: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/12/25/myspa...index.html

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