Twitter News: Watch Out for This Phishing Scam!
Hey, all you Twitter users… Have you heard about the new phishing scam? It happens in your Direct Message box.
The message starts out: “ROFL this you on here?” and links to a video site, supposedly. What really happens is that you’re sent to a fake Twitter login page that asks for your login information.
Don’t think it will come from a follower you don’t know, either. The infected Twitter account of even your best friend or a sibling will send DMs to everyone on their contact list, and on and on it goes.
This started yesterday, so it’s still a relatively new nasty, and if caught quickly, we can all avoid it. Just don’t respond or click on any links in DMs that start out with ROFL or you won’t be L-ing at all. You might be “R-ing” but with pain, not pleasantry.
Just as with any other phishing scam, don’t give your login details to any page that you haven’t typed into your browser’s address bar or arrived at because of a bookmark. That way lies madness and frustration!
