Many of you have seen my post from a few weeks ago that talked about theming your myspace without ads. (This Post) Well, after that post, my fake test account has gotten quite a few interesting requests from spammers. So guess what, I’m going to break down how these accounts draw you into becoming their friends so they can send you ads.
From what I’ve seen, there are two types of these accounts. You have the fake accounts with modified layouts which disguise the number of friends, and you have the accounts that have been stolen. The ones I have been receiving come from the first time. So, let’s begin.
The first thing you need to do is make an account. I suggest creating a fake email account just for this purpose, but that’s up to you. Once you have your account created, you’ll need to log in and find a teenage girl styled theme. These usually consist of clashing colors with pink, green, blue, and maybe even yellow. The main point here is to think like a designer with an iq lower than one hundred.
This next step is an all important step. You need to get your image. Usually, these consist of fake pictures of high schoolers, high school girls, guys playing football, models, etc. The goal here is to stand out.
Now, we come to the hook. Set the profile to private so people have to be your friend to see your profile. (This is why you want an attention getting picture) Okay, so people will be your friend, now what? Hide the real number of friends. This is an amazing strategy that would fool most people without the firefox web developer toolbar. (I immediately disable embedded css on myspace pages, which is how I found this out) All you have to do is fill out your “about me” fields with fake, but interesting information, then in the “I’d like to meet” section, paste the code located at http://codymays.net/files/myspacecode.txt (Note: this is not my code. I ripped it from a spammer’s account, so change the images and stuff) and save your profile.
Amazing isn’t it? In this small amount of time, you have a spam system ready to go. All you have to do now is google for some myspace pages, start adding friends and sending messages saying that people should add you as a friend since myspace gives you errors when you try.
In all seriousness though, this is the exact reason the myspace revolution is going to have to come to an end. It is a whole new system for spammers to hit a target audience with, and it works quite well. Ask the developers of myspace. They are probably floating on a yacht somewhere. My intentions in writing this article is that people will stop falling for such stupid setups… I can wish can’t I?
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