I just wanted to be sure:

[shirenomad]

MySpace (as in, myspace.com) is a legitimate site, right?

I just received an email saying the MySpace account I had asked for was set up, and all I had to do was click on the link to confirm it. Had my password and everything. ...Except I didn't ask for an account. There's a second link, to a MySpace.com email address, that I should click on if I got the confirmation in error... but I'm just paranoid enough about emails like this not to click just yet. Besides, why would anyone sign up for an account with my email address if they knew they would need to verify it?

In case it helps you, err, help me figure out whether this is legit, I've included the entire email contents (minus a few identifying bits)

From: Welcome to MySpace <rlvjgvnkpng___thkjd.rfh@message.myspace.com>
Reply-To: Welcome to MySpace <rlvjgvnkpng___thkjd.rfh@message.myspace.com>
To: [removed]
Date: Dec 4, 2005 9:12 PM
Subject: MySpace Account Confirmation

Hi Chris -- Thanks for joining MySpace!

Here's your account info for logging in:

E-mail: [removed]
Password: 811adams

Keep it secret. Keep it safe.


Please confirm your MySpace account by clicking here:

http://www.myspace.com/reloc.cfm?c=3&did=[removed]


======================

We hope you're having fun on the site. Have you checked out these areas yet?

* MUSIC - listen and download music from great new bands right on the site!

http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music


* BLOGS - write about your life. Read about your friends. Subscribe and get subscribers!

http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog


* GROUPS - join a cool group or create your own! Either way you can find friends who share your interests.

http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups


* GAMES - try for the high score on Gold Miner and hundreds of other games, then challenge your friends!

http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=games


* RANK - who's the hottie? Are you the hottie? Submit your photo and find out...

http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=RateImage.rate


======================

And don't forget to invite your friends!

http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=invite





NOTE: This email is never sent unsolicited. If you believe you received this notification in error, please send an email to
privacy@myspace.com

-------------------------

At MySpace we care about your privacy. We have sent you this notification to facilitate your use as a member of the MySpace.com service. If you don't want to receive emails like this to your external email account in the future, change your Account Settings to "Do not send me notification emails"

Click here to change your Account Settings:
http://www.myspace.com/reloc.cfm?c=11


You can also contact us with any questions or concerns regarding your privacy at:
mailto:privacy@myspace.com

MySpace.com 6060 Center Drive, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA 90045 USA

©2003 MySpace.com. All Rights Reserved.

Comments

[pretzelcoatl.livejournal.com]

I'm not the right person to verify this, but that e-mail looks very suspicious. This reminds me of those fake eBay e-mails that were sent out a while back.

But then, I think MySpace is sketchy anyway, so it may be legit. ;P

[starkruzr.livejournal.com]

This might be fishing to find out if your email is correct or not so that it can add you to a list.

How does it know your name though? O.o

[shirenomad]

How does it know your name though? O.o

That particular email address has "Chris" in it. Doesn't take a l337 h4xx0r to work out that much of my name from there.

[beyondfake-0.livejournal.com]

If it's not legit, it's pretty accurate.

[eternalism.livejournal.com]

Funny you should mention that. I got a rather legitimate-looking email from PayPal the other day, saying that someone from IP address whatever had used my account, and they thought it was suspicious. Please click on below link within 3 days to confirm that it wasn't you, or else we'll shut down your account for safety purposes.

No mention of, "Please input your password" or "Please confirm your credit card number" or anything like that. It even had warnings not to do that.

What tipped me off to the phoniness of it was that while I do have a PayPal account, I don't have it under that email address. :p And I've used it from different IP addresses before, so I don't see how it could know what's me and what isn't by that alone. Also, there was no link at all to click. But otherwise, it looked completely legit.

I also had the same thing happen to me with Dominion, a game I used to play. I got a notification that someone tried to set up an account with my address, please click link to confirm, yada yada. All it prompted me to do is change my email password, just on the offchance that someone was using it from that way.

[westmarked.livejournal.com]

It might be from Andrew ... he just got a MySpace account recently. Of course, if he was inviting you to join, he'd probably invite me as well, and I haven't gotten anything yet ...

[surgo.livejournal.com]

Give me all the X-headers. I can't tell you if it's legit or not without them.

[shirenomad]

X-Gmail-Received: b7a41a6e78e705f5b7eb4d2b69496917d256f62f
Delivered-To: [removed]
Received: by 10.70.24.19 with SMTP id 19cs35226wxx;
Sun, 4 Dec 2005 21:12:21 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.54.94.11 with SMTP id r11mr83887wrb;
Sun, 04 Dec 2005 21:11:59 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <rlvjgvnkpng___thkjd.rfh@message.myspace.com>
Received: from vmta07.myspace.com (vmta07.myspace.com [69.89.74.137])
by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id g3si5109405wra.2005.12.04.21.12.21;
Sun, 04 Dec 2005 21:12:21 -0800 (PST)
Received-SPF: softfail (gmail.com: domain of transitioning rlvjgvnkpng___thkjd.rfh@message.myspace.com does not designate 69.89.74.137 as permitted sender)
Message-Id: <4393cc35.158395a7.10d1.ffff8592SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.gmail.com>
Received: from DBMQ07 (127.0.0.1) by vmta07.myspace.com (PowerMTA(TM) v2.0r1) id hif63c03u7o7; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 23:12:21 -0600 (envelope-from <rlvjgvnkpng___thkjd.rfh@message.myspace.com>)
Reply-To: "Welcome to MySpace" <rlvjgvnkpng___thkjd.rfh@message.myspace.com>
From: "Welcome to MySpace" <rlvjgvnkpng___thkjd.rfh@message.myspace.com>
To: <[removed]>
Subject: MySpace Account Confirmation
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:12:21 GMT
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