Creating a fresh Myspace account to spam the online networking site is for sissies. The pros buy hacked user accounts by the dozen and use those to spread their adverts for v1agra and other goods.

According to McAfee's Avert Labs blog, a single account goes for slightly more than 1 cent, although the data is sold in batches of 1,000.

20 Feb 2007

Selling credit card numbers still is far more profitable: on average they rake in $7 to $15 each.

But a hacked Myspace account still has some use. MySpace apparently is facing a moral dilemma and won't shut down hacked accounts of genuine users. A spam account is shut down in no time.

And most users furthermore are clueless about what is going on anyway. After all, computers do weird things all the time.

image borrowed from McAfee Avert Labs blog