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?

Screenshot of ProfileTradeSite.com website

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.

Source code for the ProfileTradeSite website reveals tellafriendrewards.com script

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.

Fake free gift popup at profiletradesite website

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.

Fake offer for free dell laptop at profiletradesite.com website

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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