ITP V.011 UPDATE: ITP's author got this e-mail this morning as my TWITTER account had been PHISHED, problem solved, BTW: Wait, I'm STILL having problems, as I just changed my password yet again. YES, I use TWITTER FEED and I can manually post ITP V.011 journal entries from a button right here on BLOGSPOT. If YOU don't like ITP V.011 don't subscribe.
HERE'S ITP V.011 NEW POLICY REGARDING TWITTER ADDS: ONLY IF YOU'RE A BAND, (NOT MALAMOR) OR ARE IN THE MUSIC/METAL INDUSTRY WILL I GIVE YOU AN ADD, EVERYONE ELSE WILL BE DELTED. LAST GO AROUND FOR ITP V.011 ON TWITTER AS I CAN ADD THE SAME PEEPS ON FACEBOOK AND SEE THERE TWITTER FEED ON MYSPACE. (MYSPACE/TWITTER SYNCH WORKS FINE WITH OVER 1, 800 SOME ODD FRIENDS ON MYSPACE) WITH OUT HAVING A TWITTER ACCOUNT.
I'm guessing half of whom added ITP V.011 on TWITTER will be deleted today.
I'M ALSO GETTING THREATS, FROM LOCALS, YOU KNOW I CAN HAVE YOU SUED, ARRESTED OR GOD FORBID I TAKE THE LAW INTO MY OWN HANDS, YOU'RE DONE.
We all have to deal with SPAMMERS and PHISHERS, BTW the FBI is looking for you.
FROM E WEEK:
Notorious Spam distributor Sanford Wallace voluntarily turned himself in to the FBI after a July 6 indictment on phishing Facebook accounts and spamming the site.
Sanford Wallace is accused of allegedly using half a million phished Facebook accounts to send 27 million spam messages in 2008 and 2009. He was indicted on July 6, but only voluntarily turned himself to the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Aug. 4. The indictment was made public after Wallace turned himself in.
He was charged with multiple counts of fraud, three counts of intentional damages to a protected computer and two counts of criminal contempt. If convicted on all counts Wallace could serve anywhere form 16 to 40 years in prison and pay $2 million in fines.
In his latest spam operation, Wallace allegedly created posts on victims' Facebook walls to drive traffic to affiliate marketing companies, according to the indictment. The affiliate marketing companies pay their members by the number of clicks they deliver. Wallace evaded Facebook's spam filters and sent spam messages to user inboxes on the social networking site. Users clicking on the link were sent to a malicious Website which phished their login credentials. He allegedly wrote a script which did all the work, the court papers said.
Facebook has a big problem with malicious applications on the site that send spam in response to updates users post on their walls. The spam asks users to fill out fake surveys and redirects users to sites with malware. Sophos researchers list details of the latest Facebook scams almost every day on the NakedSecurity blog.
Wallace, released Aug. 4 on a $100,000 bond, is set to appear in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose on Aug. 22.
Since forming Cyber Promotions in 1995, Wallace has faced civil lawsuits under the federal CAN-SPAM Act from social networking sites MySpace and Facebook. He used similar phishing tactics that he used on Facebook on MySpace users as well. The judgments from those cases totaled nearly $950 million in damages. After Facebook won its lawsuit in October, the case was then referred to the United States Attorney for possible criminal charges.
Even though he was banned from Facebook as part of the lawsuit, he created a profile in January under the name David Sinful-Saturdays Wallace, according to the indictment which also charged Wallace of contempt of court for logging into the account in April while on a Virgin Airways flight in 2009.
"We applaud the efforts of the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI to bring spammers to justice and will continue to pursue and support both civil and criminal consequences for spammers and others who attempt to harm Facebook or the people who use our service," Facebook said in a statement, noting that Wallace "now faces serious jail time for this illegal conduct."
Wallace and Cyber Promotions may have sent as many as 30 million junk emails a day in the 1990s. Before that he was best known for sending out "junk faxes." His tactics earned him nicknames "Spamford" and "spam king."
Wallace has also been previously fined $5 million by the Federal Trade Commission for infecting victims’ computers with spyware and then selling users a $30 program to remove it. In May 2006, Wallace and his other company Smartbot.net were ordered by a federal court to turn over $4.1 million. He was banned from AOL, CompuServe and Concentric Networks at one point for his spam activities.
FROM TWITTER ON BLOGSPOT:
Avoid 'Phishing' Scams
Friday, February 26, 2010
Over the past few days, Twitter has been helping folks victimized by a phishing attack. Phishing is a deceitful process by which an attempt is made to acquire sensitive information such as Twitter usernames and passwords. The bad guys masquerade as someone you trust and may send you a Direct Message (DM) with a link. This DM may say something along the lines of, "LOL that you??" followed by a link to a fake Twitter login page. If you enter your credentials on that fraudulent page, the phishers can sign in as you and trick more people.
Anatomy of A Phishing Scam
Generally a phishing attack against Twitter users breaks down to a three-part process. First, accounts compromised in the manner described above send out messages to all accounts following them. Second, accounts that are newly compromised send out more messages. Third, the scammers behind the phishing attack make an attempt at monetization by sending out spam links instead of links to a fake login page. We fight phishing scams by detecting affected accounts and resetting passwords. However, it's better to stop them before they start.
Avoiding Phishing Scams
We designed the Direct Message system so that you could only get DMs from accounts that you choose to follow—this cuts way down on spam and attacks. Our Trust and Safety team identifies and deletes spam accounts every day. Still, we recommend against indiscriminately following hundreds or thousands of accounts without having a look first. To learn how you can avoid falling victim to a phishing scam or if you have other questions about keeping your Twitter account secure, please read Keeping Your Account Secure at our help site.
For regular status updates on related issues. please follow @safety and @spam. There is also a Twitter status blog that we update regularly. For a lot more information about Phishing, check out this article on Wikipedia.
Hi, ITPV011
Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a website or service not associated with Twitter. We've reset your password to prevent others from accessing your account.
EDITORS NOTE: Better safe than sorry, I JUST changed my TWITTER password, yet again. One NOTE to all followers on TWITTER, if you're a spam bot or account PHISHER FUCK off, because ITP V.011 is NOT a SPAM BOT, we're a METAL NEWS/REVIEWS SERVICE. If something compromised ITP V.011's account on TWITTER, is was a SPAM (bot) PHISHER, I'm very sorry, apologies to all, I would NEVER spam anyone with commercial/corporate bullshit.
ITP's author will be far more selective on who she adds and who I accept adds from, on TWITTER. A few morons and SPAM BOTS and PHISHERS will be DELETED today.
Otherwise all is well with ITP V.011 on TWITTER and elsewhere.
BTW, NOTES FROM THE EXTREME METAL UNDERGROUND V.011 will posted later on tonight (on draft), ITP V.011 reviews starting MONDAY (NIGHT), TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY. Also, ITP V.011 reviews will continue next weekend on a (hopefully) regular schedule Friday, Saturday and Sundays.
THIS WEEK ITP V.011 REVIEWS 8/8th, 9th, 10th or perhaps 11th. (LATE NIGHT/EARLY MORNING) 2011:
FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE-AGONY
MORBID ANGEL-ILLUD DIVINUM INSANAS
ULCERATE-THE DESTROYERS OF ALL
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-
BBL
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