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Phishing Scams Plague Twitter

by Terrence O'Brien on January 5, 2009 at 05:15 PM

Phishing Scams Come to Twitter
Twitter has been a haven for spam for quite some time now, but only now has the first truly serious phishing scam involving the service has been identified.

The Twitter Eng and Ops teams identified a scam involving direct messages being sent from hijacked accounts that included a link to a page designed to look exactly like the Twitter login screen. Of course, the page is a fake and entering your username and password into the screen allows the scammers to take over your account and send the same message to your friends on the service.

Do you use Twitter?
Yes224 (9.9%)
No1961 (86.9%)
I'm not sure71 (3.1%)


So keep an eye out for direct messages with suspicious links, like the current message going around that claims to be "a funny blog about you!" And double check the address bar to make sure you're about to log into "Twitter.com" and not some other domain name that just happens to have the word "Twitter" in it. [From: Twitter Blog and Download Squad]

Tags: phishing, scam, security, twitter

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