For people curious what a scam looks like.

This is the fake message I got on myspace.com:

Subject: Hello!
Hi 🙂 Just so you know, this account doesn’t belong to me…I’m borrowing a friend’s. I’m not to smart about computers, so I haven’t set up my own account. But my friend has been so lucky on here I just had to try it out! Your profile really stood out, so I decided to say hi. If I seem like your kind of girl at all, maybe you could take a chance and email me at kristen_jules552 at yahoo. Another friend said she would show me how to email pics, so I can send some of those along, too…

I’ll be looking forward to hearing from you:)

So I sent the message:

I received a message from you on myspace.com, or so I think. Just checking to see if that’s not a mistake.

And I got the reply:

Hi ! Hey you found me! I was a little worried you
wouldn’t be able to 😛 so, how are you? I am ok.. Im
sneaking a email in at work before my boss comes in,
so sorry if it’s a little short! I promise to write
more later 🙂

So I promised you some pics huh? 😛 well I will have
to send you some of me when I get home (don’t have the
pics here at work). In the meantime you can check out
my personal homepage. It is kind of playground while I
am taking this intro to HTML class, kind of like my
blog page. Here is the link:
http://www.wishfulwebhost.com/kristenswebpage
Its not much yet but its getting there. hehe

So tell me more about yourself, are you a work to live
or live to work kinda person? What are you looking for
in a girl? Do you like myspace? I think I will make a
profile soon, its free right? and you can add your own
HTML? That would be cool..

Anyways, enough with the 20 questions right? oh, I
prefer to chat on IM, its more personal you know? Do
you have AIM? im natkat224 on there, msg me sometime
ok?

Well I should log off and get some work done.. Write
back soon! and take care!

xoxo ~ Kristen

Doesn’t that sound odd? No details like “I’m in Portland” or “I like the Trailblazers” or anything. Googling for the username “natkat224” gave me one hit on the fark.com web site where, if you page down, you’ll see an EXACT copy of the email!

So, for those of you who said I should email her, thanks a boatload! 🙂

461 thoughts on “For people curious what a scam looks like.”

  1. Same story got a message on my space and checked out the email seemed off expecially the part where her web link takes me to a site that wants my credit card info a simple google lead me here but if anyone wants to see what their trying to to get you to pay for just go to the site below

    rubymediahost.com/katexoxo/protected_files/gallery1/index.html

  2. All my friends got “the message.” Even my friend’s MySpace site for her _dog_ got the message! For laughs, one of us responded. We got the same phony follow-up email & bs signup, etc. Googled, found you guys, saw the “protected” links, set some web-crawlers loose and popped it all onto PhotoBucket & a file-sharing site. (Channeling my annoyance, as it were.)

    http://s282.photobucket.com/albums/kk249/roseisaweed/, http://s290.photobucket.com/albums/ll266/myspacescammers/ http://www.savefile.com/files/1613940 (All)

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