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Title: Phishing scam runs rampant on Twitter Post by: Alex on January 04, 2009, 07:27:33 AM Phishing scam runs rampant on Twitter
Just yesterday Neowin reported on a suspected scam where you had to enter your username and password just so that you could get emails everytime you get an @reply to your tweets, it was later proved that it was indeed genuine and just another app. But the latest news is a scam that involves DM's which is a direct message for those out of the twitter world, the scam involves a link sent to you for a blog and once you go there you get sent to a complete different twitter homepage which is a bit like the old myspace scams. Chris Pirillo mentioned this on his blog when he got one "DO NOT VISIT the URL in question. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/YNUghJzM8So/phishing-scam-runs-rampant-on-twitter |