Picture Kingz site shut down

Within 48hours of this blog's previous post on the Picture Kingz phishing scam, the website has successfully been shut down. The news was spread quite quickly throughout online social networks such as Facebook, Digg, and Reddit among other sites.

Mozilla FF users will now see an active Phishing and Malware Protection page when visiting this site, while IE, Safari and Google Chrome users will be unable to display the page or connect to the site's server at all.

If FF is not blocking this site for you, please visit http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/ for more information on how to turn on FF Phishing and Malware Protection.

Caveat Emptor: Picture Kingz phishing scam

Recent spam messages sent from MSN referring you to a site called Picture Kingz is a phishing scam designed to steal your Windows Live ID account details. The messages may be spread through your friends accounts referring you to their photos or other files.

Do not enter your account details on this website. Their terms and conditions clearly state:

We may temporarily access your MSN account to do a combination of the following: 1. Send Instant Messages to your friends promoting this site. 2. Introduce new entertaining sites to your friends via Instant Messages.