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ImageTradingPlace.info – Another image trading scam website, imagetradingplace.info, popped up yesterday in the latest of hundreds of identical websites designed to trick people into giving up their email and password so they can be phished.

The ImageTradingPlace.info site does not have any pics of you or anyone else at the image trading place website, despite the fake messages with your pic included that you received saying “is this u on imagetradingplace.info” or something similar.

This same group of scammers have been at it for two years now, tricking people with fake MySpace messages, emails, text messages and any other way they can fool people into thinking they have pictures of you on their website.

Here’s how the scam works:

1. When you visit the site, they use an automated script that grabs your email and password.
2. Their script logs in as you on whatever site you told them you were referred from.
3. Their script then sends out bulletins, emails, comments, etc. to all your friends with the message “is this us on imagetradingplace.info?”
4. The messages they send have a little javascript file that grabs your profile pic and that makes the message seem legit. Plus, the message came from an online friend.
5. They try to scam you into giving up more than just your email and password by pretending thet the “friend” who referred you reserved you a free gift like a ringtone or a cellphone.
6. Then you find out that you’ve gotten signed up for all sorts of things like ringtones billed to your cellphone, or duped into signing up for a music club or a Blockbuster video membership just to be able to see your pictures on the website.
7. Meanwhile, their script is spamming all your friends with the same scam.

There are no pictures of you on this image trading place website.

There are no pictures of anyone else on the ImageTradingPlace website.

It’s all a big scam and hundreds of thousands of people fall for it every week, so these scammers keep throwing up new websites when the old ones get blocked by MySpace, Facebook, and all the other sites where these guys trick people with their fake messages.

Each of the fake websites is really served up from a website called tellafriendrewards.com and you can see their script in action at http://www.tellafriendrewards.com/taf/taf.html

Do not enter your email adress and password at these fake image trading websites because it’s all a scam!

And that’s why you should avoid ImageTradingPlace.info

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