MooneySpace Spam Clone

[201er]

It appears that there is a clone of the mooneyspace.com site by some spammer. Seems to be a complete copy of the site but with some links to drug companies on it. Stumbled across it when googling a post on mooneyspace. Is mooneyspace.org legit but hacked or is someone trying to copy the site and benefit off spam revenue?

You can see what I'm talking about by googling "201er mooney space"

[Parker_Woodruff]

that's wonderful...I searched N252BH and my name comes up with some drug references. :-/

[mooneygirl]

That is so strange.  How can that happen? Makes me concerned about the Ambassador website being vulnerable. Any techies out there who know how to keep your website safe?

[fantom]

Quote: Parker_Woodruff

that's wonderful...I searched N252BH and my name comes up with some drug references. :-/

[flyby201]

Curiousity got the best of me and I Googled "flyby201" to see what it said about me.  It has the MooneySpace.net and I also had a listing of MooneySpace.org.  It didn't appear to me that anyone is trying to sell anything and I couldn't really see any difference between these sites and the original.  Really makes one wonder what these people are up to.  Hopefully nothing malicious.

[rdav]

They probably get a few cents every time someone clicks on one of the hyperlinks and they successfully redirect a customer to the other website.

 

Users need to be very cautious about where they enter username and password information!  Be certain that you're on the right Mooneyspace site before you type any of this data into the browser.  My bank offers a free download of software that flags you if you enter one of your passwords on the wrong website .. but you have to be willing to trust that a keystroke monitor is watching you as you browse, and is retaining encrypted copies of the passwords that you want to protect.  It's kind of like flight following .. but for web surfers.  For those interested, check out the "Provide Free Security Software" tab under http://www.bmo.com/home/about/banking/privacy-security/how-we-protect-you.

 

(By the way, the link above should contain www<dot>bmo<dot>com.  If you don't see this, then you may be viewing the Mooneyspace clone webpage!)

[knute]

I don't know what the drug references in the google search results are all about, but the domain name registry of mooneyspace.com, mooneyspace.net, and mooneyspace.org is the same- they're all owned by our very own Craig McGregor, and all three point to the same IP address for the server.  That's actually a smart move, proactively preventing others from diverting traffic by registering all three domain names.