MySpaceSafetyTips.com

I received messages today at two of my MySpace accounts from a MySpace user named "MySpace.com Contact", whose MySpace profile address is MySpace.com/92416760. The messages were titled "Warning: Please set you age correctly".

For both of the accounts, I had set my birth date to indicate I am 99 years old, for privacy reasons. Unfortunately, clicking on the links to read the messages failed. Either a standard MySpace error page appeared, or my Inbox was re-displayed with the message from "MySpace.com Contact" missing. Re-clicking "Inbox" did not bring the "MySpace.com Contact" message back.

When you try to visit the MySpace.com Contact profile, you briefly see a standard MySpace profile page begin to display, then you are redirected to the MySpace "Contact Us" page.

If this is really from MySpace, then it appears they are trying to enforce the requirement that people enter their actual birth date into their profile database. While this strategy can force people who claim to be 99 or 100 years old to enter a different birth date, it's hard to see how this can help the much more significant problem of underage kids creating MySpace accounts.

This “Please set you age” message could have been a scam of some sort. I know of some people who had their age set to 99 or higher who did not receive the message.

If the message was a scam, the hacker appears to have accessed a large number of MySpace accounts, since the evidence is that a lot of people who don’t know each other received the message.

Posted by Kevin Farnham on 02 October 2006 - 05:29

The same thing happened to me. http://jolie.wordpress.com/2006/09/25/stupid-myspace/

Posted by Jolie on 30 September 2006 - 00:46

I received the same message.
It’s comforting to know that the Profile belonging to the age police states an alleged Male, 106 years old, Beverly Hills, California, United States, Single, Capricorn, doesn’t want kids…is securing the safety of millions of Myspace users. This geezer is older, wiser, invisible and apparently richer than the typical user. I especially loved the “set you age” part.
Amused Regards.

Posted by Webmaster on 30 September 2006 - 09:56

Oooh, hacker paranoia strikes again!

Hacker? Nothing like “hacking” that would be necessary for anyone to do this — anyone can create a myspace account with a display name like “Myspace Contact,” and anyone with a myspace account can send a message to anyone else… and it’s easy enough to do a search (one way: just use Google) to locate a number of accounts with the age set to any specific number. Then just send a message to those accounts. It doesn’t involve “accessing” anyone else’s account, and it doesn’t matter at all that people who didn’t know each other got the message.

The fact that not everyone with their age set in the targetted range got the message is only more evidence that it’s not legitimately from myspace. They could obviously easily send a message to everyone matching any criteria.

Posted by Bleibtreu on 05 October 2006 - 23:48

I didn’t change my name but I did send this person a friend request

http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=invite.addfriend_verify&friendID=92416760

I call BS simply on the basis that the member # is so high

Posted by E-Double on 07 October 2006 - 12:21

I found this site while googling for info because I received the same message. Several points strike me as illogical or plain silly.

Why does MySpace offer the possibility to set my year of birth to 1906 if this is deemed too old to be true?
What should I set my age to? Where does “too old to be true” begins?

The funny thing is, I read this warning message after the supposed “two week amnesty period” ended… and nothing happened.

Posted by Primus on 10 October 2006 - 02:07

My age is set at 34 and I got a message telling me that I was underage and had a two week amnesty to change it. I flagged it as spam.

Posted by Jim on 14 October 2006 - 19:29

I know it got nothing to do with these but i been thru everything to get my password and i still havent got it yet and it been a month since i did it and it really important that i need my password to get my job done so there anyway you can contact me please send me a message on my email address

Posted by Aaron on 31 December 2006 - 23:58