Kramerguy wrote:
You didn't back up the myspace script?
The real bitch is losing the friends and song plays. The text at least, can be recovered through google's cache, if nothing else, possibly pics too, but with a new band and name, he would have changed the text anyway.
It takes awhile to build up 3200 friends and 17,000 song plays.
Who signed up for the account?
You could be saved possibly.
Who had the original email that was used to sign up with? Do you have access to that?
If so...
Change the password and back-up email to your own, so no one else can get back into the email account.
Then contact MySpace.
DO NOT tell them about your band breaking up.
Tell them that your account was phished, hijacked and then deleted by an irate hacker. Tell them that your band had been getting alot of recognition through MySpace, and that was the primary way you guys were booked, but now, those venues cannot contact your band, cause they did it through MySpace.
Your band was getting paying gigs and was on the way, until this hacker slammed your careers to the carpet.
"PLEASE HELP US BY RESTORING OUR PROFILE AND FRIENDS LIST!!!!"
Send several of these to MySpace, with different wording and separate case numbers, cause one Admin may not care, whereas another one, may be touched by your story and request for help and will do something about it for you.
Phishing is the perfect excuse, because they are fighting spammers daily!
It may take a few days, but if you have control of the original email account that was used for signing up, it should make it easier, and there is a better than even chance, that they restore the page for you.
The deleted profile doesn't disappear
FOR THEM right away.
It is all backed up and safe and secure for quite awhile, even AFTER, you have deleted the page. If they want to, they
CAN restore it
ALL... friends, song plays, everything.
If you get it back...
Change the original email you signed up with, to a new one pronto, and don't tell ANYONE which email you used. Keep it secret. This protects you, because without access to the log-in email account, no one can steal your page from you permanently, even if they get into your MySpace account. To delete the account requires email confirmation. If they change your MySpace password and lock you out, you can go through the "forgot my password" process and the current password or a temporary password will be emailed to the SIGN-UP email account, which now, only YOU have access to.
Then change your MySpace URL to represent the new band. You can change this at any time, and because MySpace assigns a NUMBER to your account, even though your URL changes, all your friends will still be friends under the NEW URL.
Then you get to have your fans and song plays back, but also get to update your profile and MySpace URL to reflect the new band.
The only thing that could suffer, is if you have alot of links around the web, going to the old band URL. Those links will be dead, if made with the NAME of the URL, rather than the "friend ID=" string.
Chances are you don't have alot of those out there, that can't be updated.
If you decide to try it, I wish you good luck!
It's worth a shot. All they can say is no.
