WVU “Twitterers” need to be aware of a new phishing scam. Chris Pirillo posted on Jan. 3 about the problem.
Phishing Scam Spreading on Twitter
A few minutes ago, I received a direct message from one of my twitter followers:
hey! check out this funny blog about you… jannawalitax . blogspot . com
And there’s another one:
Hey, i found a website with your pic on it… LOL check it out here twitterblog . access-logins . com / login
DO NOT VISIT the URL in question. It will redirect you immediately to a suspicious domain: twitter . access-logins . com – notice the subdomain?
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Too many scams out there.
Seems like twitter is badly misused now.
People are using it for false marketing and spreading scams.
If this will continue then everybody will actually start avoiding tweets.
There are so many scams on the internet it was only time before Twitter users would feel the wrath of these malicious fiends. It’s always a good idea to look at the link before you click it but with url shortening services like bit.ly it’s increasingly hard. A simple way of handling it is, if you don’t know the person who provide the link to you, don’t click it.
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