New Twitter Phishing Scam
Another day, another phishing or malware scam on Twitter. It seems like these are happening entirely too often, and the reason is that people continue to ignore common sense. Very, very rarely will a site hijack an account of some type without getting input from the account holder. The scam du jour is a Twitter hijack attempt that asks for a username and password, and once received will not only DM your followers with a message, but will also post it publicly on your account. The message will appear as one of the following, or a close variant:
- hah, i think i seen u on here http://videos.dskjkiuw.com/
- this you? http://videos.dskjkiuw.com/
- lol this vid is funny. http://videos.dskjkiuw.com/
- haha check out this vid http://videos.dskjkiuw.com/
DO NOT FOLLOW THESE LINKS AND GIVE YOUR LOGIN INFORMATION!!! This page will take your Twitter login credentials and hijack your account. As of right now it appears to only try to propagate itself by getting others to log in, but it could use your account for other reasons. If you did receive this and you did “log in”, you must CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD IMMEDIATELY!!!
An interesting note about this phishing scam…the graphics are not even up to date. It prompts you to go to a site that looks like the OLD Twitter login page, not the new one. The images are below for comparison.
The Real Twitter Login Page
The FAKE Twitter Login Page
@ratchet34321 This: http://bit.ly/mZ7lk
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@coldtusker I thought I had become a victim (inadvertently) of the phishing/virus scam de jour http://bit.ly/3Zwut4 but apparently not.
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Efurryone be careful and checks out da new phishing scam goings around http://bit.ly/mZ7lk
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Beware – New Twitter Phishing Scam which links to videos.dskjk___.com http://tinyurl.com/ykz4heu #scam #twitter
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Beware – New Twitter Phishing Scam which links to videos.dskjk___.com http://tinyurl.com/ykz4heu #scam #twitter
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Looks like the video.dskjkiuw.com requires users to ‘log in’ http://bit.ly/mZ7lk obviously, don’t
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Apparently the videos.dskjkiuw.com asks users to ‘log in’ http://bit.ly/mZ7lk – obviously, don’t.
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See “New Twitter Phishing Scam” http://bit.ly/mZ7lk and use common sense.
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@J_B22 I might do a blog post about it soon, basically I fell for the most obvious Phishing trick http://bit.ly/mZ7lk
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PLEASE: Notice to all followers, read this – http://bit.ly/mZ7lk
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dis iz happenin on facebook too RT @BabyPatches Efurryone be careful and checks out da new phishing scam goings around http://bit.ly/mZ7lk
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New Twitter Phishing Scam » Matt Singley | Social Media Optimization http://bit.ly/4dj3Rt
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If you’re just getting online for the evening, beware of the phishing/malware scams from today! http://bit.ly/13xgF6
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Beware – New Twitter Phishing Scam which links to videos.dskjk___.com http://tinyurl.com/ykz4heu (via @JeffYoungren)
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Beware Phishing scam usingTwitter direct msg–don’t click on video !http://mattsingley.com/blog/2009/10/new-twitter-phishing-scam/
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Another day, another phishing or malware scam on Twitter. http://ow.ly/uy1o
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