Watch out for the Twitter Phishing Scam

By Luqmaan

Yesterday, I wrote a post on Twitter, while you might be all excited about trying this service after reading the post I suggest you proceed with caution. Currently, there’s a phishing scam in progress. for now it’s been only spreading via direct messages.

If you get a direct message from a random user that redirects to the (apparent) Twitter login page, DO NOT login! It’s probably a mail to phish your Twitter credentials. Currently from what I’ve heard, the description of the direct messages have been asking the user to checkout ’something funny about you’, and recently about winning a free iPhone or iPod (haven’t we seen that one before!).

But just to be on the safe side i suggest you do not login to Twitter through any DM’s (direct messages) until the phishing phase has passed.

While Twitter is growing fast, security is one of the departments they need to work on. Apart from the current mass phishing attack on Twitter accounts, accounts have also been directly hacked. You can read more on this from these news stories:

Hope this doesn’t deter new users away though, just pay attention when using Twitter, that’s all.

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3 Comments so far

Random Blog January 17, 2009 5:41 pm

I’ve heard about this but havent been hit as I havent been active on Twitter lately

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Atniz January 17, 2009 6:01 pm

Thanks for the alert. I will be extra careful of this.

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iPhone February 11, 2009 6:53 pm

thanks for the warning

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