Twitter Phishing Scam

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The Register has posted an article about a new worm that spreads on Twitter. Infected accounts sends messages to other users with a link. The message looks like: rofl this you on here? http://videos.twitter.secure-logins01.com

If a user clicks on the link, the webpage will require him or her to login. Then, their account details would be stolen.

Similar things have happened in the past in Twitter. Those that was hit with the scam are advised to change their password or contact Twitter support if they are already too late.

Source: The Register

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Tom the Web Product Manager says:

September 26th, 2009 at 10:27 am

Thanks for telling your readers (this includes me ) about this Twitter scam!
Twitter is really cool, but all this kind of scam and spam is really annoying.

cheers,
Tom

raisenop3 says:

September 27th, 2009 at 10:03 pm

Wow – this is very interesting to know. It’s really a shame that something like this could go on.

Thanks for the warning.