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.

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