I’ve recently been getting some spam from a couple contacts on my MSN list…doing a quick google search on the links revealed that this is probably MSN phishing…basically the contacts have had their account cracked… this allows an attacker to now send fake messages to the contacts associated with the account in hopes of tricking more people into entering their account information on a fake site…since they are automated using bots/scripts the contact may even appear to be offline when you receive the message.

A couple examples of the messages I’ve received are (I like that in the first one ‘hope’ is mispelled…tricky tricky):

• hey ope this link its really cool www.youvegotvirus.com wink wink
• http://<youralias>.picslists.com

So a heads up if you get links such as this DON’T go click on them and enter your credentials….and maybe it’s a good time to change your password =)

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