Avoiding Twitter Phishing Scams in Direct Messages

Karen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:11:24 +0000

As you get ever popular on Twitter and you use it more and more, you may notice that you get a lot of DMs (Direct Messages) from other users and a lot of these have links included, though some of these are genuine, other are blatant phishing scams to get your information.

One of these includes the text “Is this you on here?” and once you click this you are taken to the login page of Twitter, this is just a cunning way of stealing your log in details to take over your account, so to put it simply DON’T CLICK IT!

If you have been tricked in to giving your username and password, then change it straight away on the Twitter setting in your profile.

I’ve recently been recieving DMs with regards to “iq scores“, now I’m not sure if these are phishing scams, but I’m not clicking them, if you have found you are sending these DMs then change your password.

So a couple of simple rules to follow:

Never provide your Twitter username or password to any website that looks suspicious.
If you are not sure about a link in a DM then don’t click it.
If the DM is from someone you know, tweet them asking them if they sent it, if they didn’t tell them to change their password.

There you go a few simple rules that should hopefully keep you safer from the Twitter phishing scams..

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