You are not logged in. (MSN Hijacking
I would normally use the term “phishing”, but there’s no impersonation involved here.
The website mycoolfriends.info asks you to “Login” with your MSN details so they can inform you about “this 100% real and upcomming [sic] service”. For the love of God, don’t. Funnily enough, reading a bit more will give the full details.
We may temporarily access your MSN account to do a combination of the following:
- Send Instant Messages to your friends promoting this site.
- Introduce new entertaining sites to your friends via Instant Messages.
In other words, we’ll take your username and password, login to your MSN when you’re not signed-in, and then proceed to spam your contacts with ringtone “offers” (quotation marks because they are the usual subscription services that charge stupid amounts for a crumby ringtone you could get by putting an MP3 on your phone).
Whatever you do people, never ever enter your password onto a site that isn’t meant to have it and without reading the full terms and conditions. This is a cruel tactic by a bunch of morons who are hijacking MSN accounts to try and make money. Don’t help them.
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