The Great MySpace Hoax?

The Great MySpace Hoax?

As I reported on Army of Blogs, "MySpace Fights Back!" some of the more popular myspace bots having been falling like flies recently. In just a few days we lost Space Station, Badder Adder, and Adder Robot. We also recently lost the only two myspace auto account creators, Space Promoter, and Myspace Account Creator.

It was reported that the myspace legal team sent out C&D orders by email to these bot owners. They immediately shut down their sites! Well I got a copy of this C&D email and you can see it in this post. It seems not all the bot owners who got this email was impressed with it and question it's authority and or authenticity!

Speculation is still running wild from many observers and there are some really interesting theories floating around.

1. It's a Hoax!
Some one sent this email to bot owners to scare them! It worked.

2. Conspiracy Theory #1
Some of the bot owners have secretly got together to orchestrate a fake attack to later launch a new more expensive bot under a new name.

3. Conspiracy Theory #2
One of the bot owners is attempting to scale down the competition to later launch a new more expensive bot under a new name.

4. It's MySpace But No Bite!
This email did come from myspace, but not their legal team but rather only their abuse department, and the email carries no weight whatsoever, and the bot owners simply panicked.

Those are the main theories floating around right now. I am still investigating all this and will try to provide a better picture of what happened. In the mean time here is the infamous email that spooked at least three bot owners to shut down immediately after receiving it.

(click on title for complete post!)

Please shut down your site and cease distribution of any MySpace bots as it is a violation of our terms and service. If you do not cease this activity we will be forced to pursue legal action against you.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/02/27/myspace.hacking.ap/index.htm

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Jason Wiley

Abuse Lead

MySpace.com | Fox Interactive Media

jwiley@myspace.com Office: 310.969.7369

Some Facts About The Email

The phone number goes to a voice mail box for some one named Jason Wiley. Not myspace.

It identifies it's self as "Abuse Team", not legal team, or attorneys.

It accuses of violating their TOS agreement.
Click Here to read their TOS.

The cnn link provided in the email is dead.

More to follow soon!