Fake Friendster Phishing Website - What the Hell is the Point?
Phishing is defined as an attempt to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. In other words, they use these sites to hack your username and passwords. 
Common targets of phishing include online banking, PayPal and eBay accounts. But just recently there is new phishing activities going on at Friendster.
A friend recently sent me a message entitled Friendster Account Checker: MUST READ!! which contains:
JUST CLICK AND RE-LOGIN
This message is being circulated by the administrator of friendster to check who are active and who are not. Just click on the link provided below and this message will automatically be forwarded to all your friends. Failure to comply will mean deletion of account.
Just Click and re-login:
http://friendstermaintenance.blogspot.com/
I checked out the link provided and it was indeed a fake friendster website used to hack accounts. Although at first glance, you can’t tell it apart except for the big blogger tab on top of the page.
Fake friendster site used to hack accounts:
Here is what the REAL friendster site looks like:
Great phishing scam. But what’s the point? It’s not like they’re hacking a bank account? I don’t understand what interest do they have in my friendster account. Wierd!
Anyway, please be careful with your usernames and passwords. Double check the URL of the site whenever you are logging in. 
Any ideas why they need my useless friendster account?
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Nice find, McBilly. I think hacking one’s Friendster account is just a prelude to a bigger scamming scheme. I think what the hacker plans to do is steal the Friendster account and use it to contact that person’s Friends to lure them into some scam activity.
Very much like the Yahoo Messenger hacking and scamming incident a few months ago who victimed YM users a few thousand pesos worth of prepaid load.
Oh yeah. I remember reading your post on that. I see. Thanks James. I didn’t see that angle because I don’t take messages in friendster seriously as to messages in Yahoo Messenger. So acting as my friend in friendster and trying to scam me has very little chance to succeed. But I guess there are still a lot of possibilities that the hacker can take advantage of.
do you know how to block a friendster account. my friend is being used by somebody. he created a friendster account and post edited porn picts there. anybody who could help blocked that account?
WOW! it looks almost the same as the real one. Well, maybe the creator of the fake friendster just wanted to try fishing and to get friendster accnt. What for? hmmm…
Yeah. It looks exactly the same. James points out that this is just a prelude for a bigger scamming scheme. Let’s just be careful and be extra cautious when dealing with online deals.
Thank Alot for your post mcbilly and for james for that tips on scam load.. Hope you don’t mind if I link your articles on this to my sites..
Sure Hectril. Be my guest to link to our articles. Thanks a lot too.
thanks for the info mcbilly. certainly very useful. we cannot be too careful with the advances in technology nowadays. other people may have tha habit of using only one username and password for all cyberspace transactions, including online banking. this is what syndicates may want to explore.
Good point Monaco! I usually have similar usernames and passwords in several of my accounts. I guess the possibilities of how these hackers can use our hacked accounts to their advantage is limitless.
Maybe there is something Big waiting for them that we don’t know? Really weird Mac.
nice one.. more power!
that is funny!
what are they going to do with my friendster account?
But I have to say, very nice replica of Friendster!
Isn’t it obvious? They want to add you as a friend but hesitant because you might deny their request.
Solution? Hack accounts and approve friend requests.
dude, thank you for your message bout fake friendster… need to pass this link to my other friends.
thanks a lot..
Sure man. You’re welcome. I’d appreciate it if you do pass this link to all your friends.
hehe friendster
i agree with monaco…it’s for the login info since many folks use just one username and password…
the scammer is cheap…he didn’t even bother to get a .com address with a slightly similar name haha
and he’s lazy/dumb…he didn’t even remove the blogger bar
Ahahaha! LOL at your cheap/lazy/dumb statements Cyberpunk. Even funnier because they’re true.
I almost got hacked by these phising site, luckily the scammer is dumb that he didn’t remove the bar.
there’s been a lot of these site on the net, It’s sad cause I think one of them is a fellow kababayan. 
Here’s what I’ve found somewhere on the source code.
Anyways, thanks mcbilly for this great article.
I’m sorry, the code:
< -- CHANGE THIS PORTION ONLY -->
< -- PUT YOUR E MAIL ADDRESS WHERE YOU SEE MY E MAIL ADDRESS, DO NOT CHANGE OTHER TAGS -->
< -- YOU WILL RECIEVE HACKED IDS AND PASSWORDS AT THE E MAIL ADDRESS YOU TYPE BELOW -->
< -- THATS ALL, YOU DONT NEED TO CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE, JUST HOST THIS PAGE NOW (http://www.friendster.com/) -->
Hi John. Thanks for finding this out.
The codes didn’t show earlier because it was being read as an html code. Sorry.
The hacker IS pretty dumb. Hehe. Good thing too. At least less people would fall for this phishing site.
Anyway, pretty nice designs man. And guess what! We’re from the same University. Hehe. Thanks for dropping by John.
ok thanks a lot…nice site dude.:)
well there are people out there that are using only 1 email and or password with their online accounts on the internet. Once hackers get your email and password they can use your private information to make online transaction or use it for their personal reasons…
it looks great..but how to use it?!sorry im just new to this things..anyone help me please..:)
What do you mean how to use it? You don’t use it and you shouldn’t too because that site will harvest your username and password to try and hack your accounts. Hope this helps dude.
this is the email address of that hacker newrizal999@yahoo.com how did I know? when you look upon the source code of that webpage you will find the email address destination of your username and password. so when you click the login, it will send your username to that address. You can make on your own, just create a unique account to the blogspot then copy the source code then paste it to the blogspot html editor. change the destination of the email then thats it…
can someone help me retrieve my friendster account? it was hacked..
the email address has changed..
Did you receive a confirmation in your old email address that you are changing your current email?
better forget your friendster account and switch to facebook.. but if you’ve got confi files in there..well good luck..hope it won’t spread.
nope.. i didnt received any message that im changing email address..
hehe.. no confi files there.. but the hacker is threatening me that he’ll send porno pics to my friends using my account.. he’s asking for celphone load or do dirty stuff on web cam.. he even gave his cel number and ym id.. freak..
Well, the important thing is that there are no confidential informations in your account. I suggest you change your passwords for your other accounts like email, YM and online games if you’re using a universal password in your friendster.
I’m sorry to say but I don’t think you can get your account back unless you bribe the hacker or something. The best thing to do is just to create a new account and inform your friends that you got hacked and if they receive porno pics from you, just block the user.
Hope it goes well.
hehe ur right.. good thing im using different password on my accounts..
lesson learned: never use simple password..
bet i should use special characters.. hehe
this place is cool..
thanks!
i’ll be reporting this to phishtank after this post..this should be stopped as soon as possible..
I hope our browsers IE, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera and Safari could be updated so it will be blocked..
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This is getting popular already, it happened to my buddy too, the modus is they use the fake site to collect login information then unsuspecting user accounts get hacked and will spread private message to victims and the cycle continues.. and BTW nice blog
Thanks a lot Joenel. I read your post too regarding the friendster phishing site your friend logged in to. It’s really a good thing that you were there beside him that time. We should really be more cautious nowadays.