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Phishing has been around as long as the internet but so far I personally never had an attempt on any of my accounts, until a couple of days ago….
I got a directmessage through Twitter from Ashley (twittername Ashleemikel), it said: “you look funny here http://www.thephishinglink.com”. I will not post the real link she used because there are always people who are stupid enough to fall for it anyway after they’ve been warned. So in essence what it does like any phishing attempt, it redirects to a site that completely LOOKS like Twitter but if you look closely you’ll see that in the URL twitter is just the subdomain. It could like look http://www.twitter.securelogin.com or something. It’s the oldest trick in the book, but I bet a lot of people are still falling for this one.
I decided not to unfollow the scumbags, but rather keep checking what they come up with and already they have stepped it up notch. Now they’re making all kinds of online quizzes which you can fill out and in the end they want your Twitter login. Oh my god, I do not want to make a guess of the people who are buying that. So that was it, I informed Twitter of their practices and hopefully their account will be banned by the end of the day. But since the most easiest thing to do is making another Twitter account, I don’t think this is going to stop these guys.
This is what their page looks like right now:
More info on phishing on this Twitter page
2 CommentsPost by Gioom
2 Responses to “Don’t lose your Twitter account through phishing”
Neila says :
March 22, 2010 at 3:34 AM
Oh well, if that were all one had to fear about phishing….
Sending out some silly messages about games and quizzes before one realizes, one does to followers who don’t expect this – like when one connects You-tube with too many tweeting possibilities by incident – this is just games, most of the tome, and not phishing.
Phishing means, the program indeed takes over the account and starts to send advertising (for XXX-stuff mostly) you have no idea about.
So yes, one must watch out – any game can carry phishing inside, but the above was not really a dangerous example. – Some people still are on twitter for fun.
On the other hand, one must watch out – these sites are obviously multiplying, and what started off as fun will attract phishing. Like all these who-blocked-you-on-msn-services.
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Mike says :
February 25, 2010 at 12:18 AM
Same thing happened to me couple of days ago. It was something else DM’ing me though.
These bastards need to go to prison !!!