I know that the above title isn’t news to anyone. I’ve got a well documented case showing that they aren’t even capable of hiring someone properly though. It’s da funny :P
Go forth and read:
Can MySpace Hear Anyone?
P.S. Be sure to read the comments.
For those of you that missed the insanely huge (over-publicized) story of MySpace filing suit against Scott Richter back in January, here’s a little pre-blog warm-up…
Step One:
Watch this video and bathe in the douche baggery that is Scott Richter, AKA: The Spam King…
Step Two:
Wonder to yourself how I managed to put bathe, douche, and one of the biggest shit bags on the internet into the same sentence without disrupting the space-time continuum.
Step Three through Twenty-Six:
Get that mental image of Doc Brown out of your head.
Step Twenty-Seven:
Go read or reread this old blog entry of mine about MySpace filing suit against Scott.
“Based on [MySpace's] track record of unrelenting incompetence and boneheaded moves, I find it unlikely that they’re really ready for this war.”
My predictions in that blog entry have proven to be dead accurate so far.
Step Twenty-Eight:
Ponder the notion of me being a time traveler like George Bush to explain away my ability to predict the future.
All caught up? Good. Now, let me explain what all the legal mumbo jumbo in them there fancy legal documents actually means…
The latest fiasco to rip though MySpace Land screams what everyone already knows: incompetence is the only strong suit of the crew over there. Hopefully, Tom and Chris will get kicked to the curb in October and Rube will completely clean house over there. If not, I guess I’ll see all you on Facebook in the coming months.
Anyhoo… When I was on MySpace a bit ago, I tried to reply to a message. Instead of getting the message sent I was greeted with a cute little “your message did not pass the spam filter” response. When I tried to resend the message I was told that my account had been phished. lolz
Their phished account flagging system has always been a bit glitchy, so I wasn’t surprised. When I went to change my password through the link provided to unlock my account I was greeted with the below:
^^^ Do you see the problem? The fucking captcha image is broken. Hitting refresh several times didn’t help things, so I logged into MySpace via Internet Explorer instead of FireFox thinking that it might be a we is be retarded and no know how make websites work in multiple browsers properly issue. Well, that didn’t help either.
A while back I posted a blog entry on MySpace about the new MSPLinks link filtering solution they have been haphazardly rolling out. In it, I said: “MySpace took a huge step in the right direction by hiring an outside company [MarkMonitor] to implement a system to screen outgoing links added to your pages, comments, etc”. Everything in that entry is correct besides the assumption that MarkMonitor was providing the solution.
Correction: MarkMonitor is not involved in the MSPLinks service, but is the domain registrar used by MySpace for domains including msplinks.com.
MarkMonitor does in fact offer anti phishing solutions and whatnot. I just didn’t bother digging deep enough to see that they are also a domain registrar. I’d blame my buddy Sean over at SocialHam since he was the first to post that info, but I made the same assumption before I even read his blog entry about it.
Whoops. :P
Imagine being told that you’re sick when you’re not, a quack doctor forcing some symptoms to show, and then being charged for a Cyanide pill to treat your nonexistent ailment. That’s the gist of what’s going down on MySpace at the moment.
This thing is being passed around in the same fashion as the MySpace Adult Content Viewer BS that was infecting tons of people not too long ago…
1. Tons of fake MySpace profiles are setup.
2. Said profiles have a clickable image overlaying them to entice people into downloading a payload of evilness.
3. A friend adder bot is used to send out a couple hundred friend requests from those profiles every day.
4. People visit the profiles to see who the got the friend request from.
5. The end.
For a detailed look at how the Cyanide is administered, PaperGhost has a play-by-play posted on SpywareGuide.
For everyday MySpace users, the bottom line is that you shouldn’t click on this image when you see it plastered across a profile.
