Viral spamming alert on AmusementPeople.com to warn people that this brand new website is highly suspicious and to avoid it completely. It’s so new that it’s not even listed in Google, Yahoo or MSN, yet thousands of people are searching for information about amusementpeople.com because of viral spam techniques promising a funny or sexy video referred by a friend.

AmusementPeople.com domain was registered through GoDaddy on August 24, 2007 (see screenshot below), but the actual web site is being served up from a second website, CoolStuff2See.com. Strangely enough, even that site says it’s under construction on it’s blank home page.

amusementpeople.com who is information

The actual AmusementPeople.com website is being served up from this internal folder, appropriately labelled “skanks” at this URL (see source code screenshot): http://www.coolstuff2see.com/skanks/register.html 

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The new amusementpeople.com web site operators don’t seem to think too much about their site visitors. Take a look at the script label for the oversized ringtones pitch (see screenshot above). It’s called “The new shady” so you really gotta wonder…

Here’s the Amusement People web site so you don’t have to go there:

amusementpeople.com ringtone popup

Next, the amusement people throw a stalker script at you when you try to close the ringtones offer window. See the picture of the “Alert message” popup that claims “We have detected that someone has looked at your profile 9 times in the past 24 hours!”

amusementpeople.com stalker script

So, www.amusementpeople.com is using scarcity (via the timed ringtones offer countdown that pauses at 1 and doesn’t close) and danger (via the stalker message) to override your caution and get you to enter your email address and password to gain access.

Then they give you another logical reason to justify giving up your personal information with this message: “Due to the popularity of this video, this site does not allow “automated scripts” or “bots” which could clog video server bandwidth. To prove you are a human, and not an automated script, you must manually type below for free temporary access to view this video.”

amusementpeople.com website

Of course, that’s all bullcrap! They just want your email address, plus most people use the same password as their email login, so you’re leaving yourself wide open…

Basically, the whole site is a scam to sell you a monthly ringtone plan via a text message signup that adds it to your phone bill. Or, they capture your email address with their skanky tricks and then spam you to death with other crazy, but lucrative (for them, not you) offers.

Update to the ongoing MySpace bulletin phishing scam:
Every time someone actually enters their email and password on one of these sites, it’s used to log into MySpace and send more spam bulletins to all their friends and so on and so on. These guys are creating multiple duplicate sites, so watch out for these as well.

http://hitsusa.com/blog/48/bestthiswaycom-warning/

http://hitsusa.com/blog/47/bestubelievecom-warning/

Another one last week was explainthese.com and that fooled a lot of people because it grabs your MySpace profile pic when you  click the link, so you think it’s real. If you entered your email and password on any of these sites, then change your password. Tell your friend you got the bulletin from to change their password too because these guys will keep using their MySpace login to send more spam bulletins and your profile could get deleted for spamming.

So, be warned! Stay away from anything like this amusementpeople.com website.


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