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Phishing Scam Spreading on Twitter
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by Albert Milliron | January 3, 2009 at 04:03 pm
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Thousands of Tweeple on Twitter are receiving a direct messages that says, "hey! check out this funny blog about you... " Once one clicks the link he/she is redirected to a site that appears to be a Twitter Login. Don't Do it! It is a Phishing Scam!
DO NOT VISIT the URL in question. It will redirect you immediately to a suspicious domain: twitter . access-logins . com - notice the subdomain? Worse yet, here’s what you’d see there right now:
This is NOT the Twitter login page, and it smells completely phishy! Suggestion: do NOT log in to your Twitter account through any site other than Twitter.com. That may go without saying, but consider how many third-party Twitter services you use? Seems it’s about time for some kind of verification / validation for applications using the Twitter API - so you can be sure you’re passing your credentials to the right people.
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Albert Milliron
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at 16:27 on January 3rd, 2009
I just saw a link about this on twitter - I haven't received a tweet like that, but most people would click on it if they got one I think!
at 16:33 on January 3rd, 2009
Thanks for adding the Tweets to the story how cool!
at 22:57 on January 3rd, 2009
Good info. I shouldn't click on anything you don t'know for sure. That is the best guide.
at 09:10 on January 4th, 2009
Very good advise.