2007-12-15 18:31:28 · 12 answers · asked by Jude F 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet ➔ MySpace
Thank you for the knowledgable and propfessional answers. FOR the sarcastic ones, like...if you were phished how did you know??? Well, myspace sent me a notice and warned me that I was phished and to change passwords etc. SOOOO, if you can't be knowledgable and professional like the others....as least try being nice, OR dont respond.
2007-12-15 19:11:08 · update #1
your account password was stolen
2007-12-15 18:33:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Phishing is replacing the page a person is used to seeing with an exact replica hosted on a different server (e.g home.myspace.com is not the same as home.myspace.freeserver.com) but to someone who was not paying attention or didn't know any better it would appear the same. The unwitting user inputs his user name and password (to the wrong server) and is immediately redirected to the real page, and is asked to reenter the information and he does and gains access to his page. Meanwhile, the information has been collected on the phishing server and now the phisher has access to that user's account.
2007-12-15 18:37:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Phishing is where you log onto myspace but its not really myspace. Always check the address bar before signing in. Particularly when you click on something and you all the sudden sign out. Close your browser and then sign in again by typing it in the address bar. Its for bank websites too you have to be care full cause they still your password.
2007-12-15 18:35:45 · answer #3 · answered by candyapplesyum! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You got tricked into typing your password into a site that *looked like* myspace but wasn't really myspace. Bad guys got your password and the rest is history. Phishing as in - trying to get you to bite
2007-12-15 18:32:58 · answer #4 · answered by kwishot 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You accidentally enter your password and username on a fraudulent site. The site was made to LOOK like Myspace but it actually sends your information to a program that this guy made. The program then sends obnoxious bulletins or messages with advertisements in them on your account.
2007-12-15 18:34:57 · answer #5 · answered by Oswald 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Phishing is when a company tries to get personal information from you.
2007-12-15 18:34:15 · answer #6 · answered by Moral Orel 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
someone gets in ur myspace account after gettin yer password n stuff
stop clicking on links ppl send u
2007-12-15 18:34:02 · answer #7 · answered by BreeZee 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's when somebody hacks you're account through illegitimate means. Usually it's just for advertising and they don't bother with they personal information.
2007-12-15 18:34:22 · answer #8 · answered by Da Cool Brutha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone posing as a trusted company and asking you to give personal information which they will use to rip you off.
2007-12-15 18:34:23 · answer #9 · answered by the Boss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
okay
there are websites like tracker kepper that
ask you for you email and password
you give it to them thinkin you will get somethin
but they log in as you and send comments to people
2007-12-15 18:34:57 · answer #10 · answered by Me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋