ProfileTradeSite.com - Gotten a weird MySpace blog message that says - Your profile is being traded and ranked on profiletradesite.com - and wondered what the heck was going on?
ProfileTradeSite.com is just one of a huge group of websites designed to trick MySpace users into falling for an identity theft scam that also makes the website’s owners money by making you sign up for merchant offers before you can see your supposedly stolen pics and profile.
The message that you got on MySpace or Facebook telling you that your profile, messages, pics, comments or whatever had been copied to the ProfileTradeSite website is not true. It’s all part of a sophisticated spam and scam operation.
What they do is trick people into giving up all their personal information, starting with their email and password, then move on to try to get your name, address, and phone number.
The scam uses an automated script to login at whatever site you said referred you. Then it sends fake MySpace bulletins to all your friends, posts spam comments promoting the ProfileTradeSite.com website, and even makes fake blog posts.
Every week, the spam and scam group behind all this puts up five or six phony sites just like this one that targets MySpace and Facebook users.
All the fake websites in this scam use a script originally created and used last year by tellafriendrewards.com that you can see in action here: http://www.destination-server.com/taf/taf.html
If you click that link, you’ll see the exact same website as ProfileTradeSite.com, so don’t fall for this scam.
All they want to do is trick you into believing you have a “free gift” coming, in this case a Dell laptop.
Of course, you have to complete 16 different merchant offers to get your free gift and they earn a big commission on each one of those offers.
The fine print is several pages long, but basically what it means is you’ll never get a free laptop and you can’t sue them over the fraud because they claim the whole site is just a prank!
And then of course, you find out that there isn’t anything else on the ProfileTradeSite website at all.
There are no pics of you there, nobody is commenting on your pics there, nor is there any stolen copy of your Myspace profile there. It’s all a big scam!
Here’s just a few of the websites used by this scam in the last few weeks:
- buddyowners.com
- profile2see.com
- palviewers.com
- profilemirrors.com
- ownyourfriendarchive.com
- tradepeopleprofiles.com
- friendownership.com
- mirrorsocialsites.com
- bulletinpics.com
- peepatpeeps.com
- buddyspots.com
- saveyour profile.com
- seepeopleprofiles.com
- socialprofilemirror.com
- discussprofiles.com
So, if you’re getting these kind of posts on your Myspace blog, change your password.
Also, watch out for an application on MySpace.com called OwnAFriend. It’s a good idea to change your profile settings to disallow these types of third-party applications because they spam all your friends.
And that’s the latest news on why you shouldn’t believe what you see at ProfileTradeSite.com.
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June 4th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Wont take me to page to entry. Is this fake?
June 9th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
For reason i cant get in on your sweepsteak could email me and tell me why tannks
June 25th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
why are pictures on here!!!!!!!!! i never put them and i dont even no waht this site is!
July 20th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
why did you steal my site?
I’ve worked so hard on it for over 2yrs,
it’s no use to anyone else
why? I don’t get it?
July 20th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
my site was stolen by these guys, how can I get it back
I’ve worked so hard on it for over 2yrs
now its out of my possession, why would anyone want it
I really don’t understand. WHY???
July 31st, 2008 at 3:02 pm
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July 31st, 2008 at 3:02 pm
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December 3rd, 2008 at 7:16 pm
omg.