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Imagine this for a moment…

You’re on MySpace (cause that’s where all the fake profiles of hot chicks hang out) and upon entering a forum thread… BAM! You’re greeted by wall-to-wall hardcore scat that makes the infamous TubGirl picture look like a garden full of tulips. And, it’s not just posted in the thread – it’s covering your entire screen and the thread is hidden behind it. You click your back button and see another thread entitled “Don’t go into any of the threads right now – something is horribly wrong”. Naturally, you jump in there to see what in the hell is going on. In there, it’s explained that a script kiddie who’s part of a MySpace troll group is using some very basic CSS to overrun all the threads with that… crap. You click the reply button because you want to add your two cents about this lameness and… Double BAM! Instead of a field opening up to enter your reply, you’re on a web page outside of MySpace. This time you get your eyes filled by a flash loop of a transsexual getting banged up the poop chute while in reverse cowboy – giving you the oh-so-lovely view of his/her meat pistol (penis/dick/schlong/whatever) bouncing up and down. It wasn’t the infamous Meat Spin, but very similar in nature. This not-so-cute little trick was being achieved by overlaying the entire thread with a clear .gif and linking it to that outside page.

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Yeah, I know. Picking on Tom is akin to pushing a kid with Down Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy onto a lake covered by a thin layer of ice. I guess this just makes me a big mean bully, but the dude should know better than to post garbage when a zillion people are going to read it.

Here’s his latest announcement that splashed across millions of screens yesterday:

Now, let’s rip that apart to see what he was really saying…

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*** This page is safe for viewing at work, but following any links on it will likely result in a truck load of boobies splashing across your monitor. ***

A few days back I was catching up on my web surfing when I stopped by the xFanz MySpace page. I wanted to see if they had posted any new videos to YouTube from the 2007 AEE (Adult Entertainment Expo) that went down between January 11th and 13th in Vegas. Well, when clicking on any of the YouTube vids on that page I got the “This video is no longer available” message.

At this point you might be thinking: “No shit Sherlock, of course YouTube deleted a bunch of obscene videos uploaded by some porn site. What did you expect?”

There’s a couple of problems with that train of thought though…

1. xFanz isn’t really a porn site. It’s a mix of adult entertainment news, social networking, porn movie reviews, and blogs. It’s a far cry from being safe for work, but in-your-face-boobage isn’t their thing. More info about them can be found in the xFanz Wikipedia article.

2. The videos they produce are anything but obscene. Thus far, they’ve all been little clips from conventions, interviews, behind the scenes on sets, etc. And, any of them that happen to have boobies in them don’t get posted to their YouTube channel.

Already knowing the above I was left thinking…

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In case you haven’t heard…

There’s a zillion billion news stories going around about MySpace filing suit against Scott Richter who is fairly well known as the “Spam King”. He picked up that name after owning a clothing line that used it (in violation of someones trademark, naturally) and for… Well, being one of the biggest shit-bags to ever grace the net with massive loads of spam.

The suit filed by MySpace alleges that Richter and his company; OptInRealBig which is the parent company of the CPAEmpire.com CPA network, has been spamming MySpace users via bulletins from phished accounts. This isn’t shocking news to me since I busted someone sending traffic to CPAEmpire affiliate links in that exact fashion over a month ago.

If the rumor mill is correct, Scott Richter is simply the beginning of this. Apparently, MySpace plans to file similar suits against over 20 ad networks. Since that suit against Richter has been filed, this is no surprise either.

The below are some excepts from a email convo I had with a MySpace employee back in June of 2006. He initiated the correspondence after reading something I wrote about the adult webcam spam (NSFW) that’s extremely popular on MySpace.

“I’m curious what advice you have for us? We have a good team on it, but don’t have the inside perspective you do ”

“My idea is extremely simple: Sue them. And, have them reprimanded any way you can from a criminal standpoint… You guys have a ton of claims that could be made… negative effect on your brand, hurts your CPM rates, ruins user experience, etc.”

Well, it looks like they’re finally going to be smart about this. Or, are they? There’s some major issues that come along with the “sue the bastards” approach…

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About a week back my buddy Paul Wood from MessageLabs received a friend request from “some lovely lady – ahem” on MySpace. If you’re a regular over at the trailer park of the interweb, you’re more than use to getting bogus friend requests from fake profiles being used to market some nonsense, phish your password, or get the ball rolling on yet another worm. Paul’s new sweetheart was no exception.

The hustle in question was / is just a copycat version of the old “MySpace Content Viewer“. Not a bad hustle to copy since I’m sure it was / is insanely effective at getting eRetards to download a payload of nastiness. When you completely rip off the idea of another dip-shit you’re suppose to do one of two things though…

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