Avoid being duped

Apparantly, my brother and fiance have both been the victims of a malicious scheme. i've seen it elsewhere, and it works like this:

you get or see a comment on myspace from a trusted freind with a provocative picture or tagline. it might talk about a girl you know dressing like a skank, appear to be a video of girls making out, or suggest that somebody posted something mean about you. when you click the link to see it, you go to what appears to be the myspace login page saying "you must be logged in to do that." so you sign in, and i don't know what happens from there - but once that website has your name and password, it infiltrates your freinds list and puts the bulletin on their space -from you!!!!! because these people trust you, they click the link, and the cycle perpetuates.

so word of warning: whenever you click a link and it asks you to sign into myspace, beware. go to your address bar an manually type in myspace.com. if you only sign in when you've directed yourself to myspace (as opposed to following a link), you'll be safe.