Twitter Fishing Scam via Direct Messages
Posted on September 28th, 2009 by John
A new phishing scam is spreading through Twitter via direct messages, according to several reports.
Itamar Kestenbaum writes on his JewNews.net blog that he received a direct message on his Twitter account from someone he didn’t know that said “rofl this you on here?” followed by a link to what appeared to be a video-related Twitter page.
The page looks like a legitimate Twitter log-in page but nabs your credentials if you type in your password, he warns.
Meanwhile, a posting on the Mashable blog said the site had received multiple reports of the new phishing scam and that someone there had even received one of the phishing-related direct messages themselves.
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