How to Avoid Twitter phishing scams
Posted on September 20th, 2011 in Social Networks
If you receive a DM on twitter “This made me laugh so hard when i saw this about you lol” it’s a phishing scam to get your twitter login details. Your account will then send that or similar DM’s on to your friends. Don’t fall for this email hoax and login to twitter via the link, it’s a fake site.
Why are so many of my twitter friends caught out by this scam? The scam is most effective against users on mobile devices like smart-phones. It’s hard to read the misspelled URL that looks like twitter’s.
As this attack matures, the exact phrase used will change. The way to be safe on a mobile device is
Tags: Cloak and Dagger, Internet memes, mobile device, phishing, Social engineering, twitter, World Wide Web
