Blazing Minds » Twitter Scams http://blazingminds.co.uk Blogging Tips, Music & Film Reviews, Memes, Twitter Tips - Thoughts, Ponders - and those funny quirks of life in us all Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:36:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Another Twitter Phishing Attack, Password Resets Sent Out! http://blazingminds.co.uk/twitter-phishing-attack-password/ http://blazingminds.co.uk/twitter-phishing-attack-password/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:16:36 +0000 Karen http://blazingminds.co.uk/?p=3453 Sadly it seems that someone has been out Phishing again and earlier I saw a tweet in my timeline from the Safety team at Twitter with regards to the attack and that accounts that they think may have been attacked have been sent a password reset So if you do get an email from Twitter [...]

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Some users are being targeted in phishing and/or brute force attacks; we have pushed out password resets to users possibly affected.
June 3, 2010 6:29 am via webReplyRetweetFavorite
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Safety

So if you do get an email from Twitter asking you to reset your password, first of all make sure that the link in the email does indeed go to Twitter and no where else and then go ahead with updating your Twitter.

Also: we'll NEVER auto-email you a new password; we use a reset process. Delete email attachments claiming to contain your PW; they don't.
June 3, 2010 6:43 am via webReplyRetweetFavorite
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Safety

Be safe and always make sure your email from Twitter is real, if Twitter think that you are at risk then you should have received one of these emails already or you will be getting one shortly, another good point to remember is try not to use website that ask for your Twitter password and only use sites that use the Twitter OAuth for your security when giving access to your Twitter account.

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]]> http://blazingminds.co.uk/twitter-phishing-attack-password/feed/ 35 What Puts People Off From Following You on Twitter? http://blazingminds.co.uk/puts-people-twitter/ http://blazingminds.co.uk/puts-people-twitter/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:30:52 +0000 Karen http://blazingminds.co.uk/?p=2903 I’ve been asked the question “What puts you off from following people on Twitter?” many times by friends who join Twitter and want to [intlink id="tweetdeck-discover-twitter-followers" type="post"]increase Twitter followers[/intlink], but are weary of who they follow back, so I thought I would take the opportunity to let you know what puts me off from following [...]

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]]> I’ve been asked the question “What puts you off from following people on Twitter?” many times by friends who join Twitter and want to [intlink id="tweetdeck-discover-twitter-followers" type="post"]increase Twitter followers[/intlink], but are weary of who they follow back, so I thought I would take the opportunity to let you know what puts me off from following people on Twitter.

So I’m going to start this list with just the basics on what really put me off following someone on Twitter.

  • Default Twitter Logo
    Now this really does annoy me, if you are serious about using Twitter then before you even attempt to follow someone, add an Avatar, it just looks so much better.
  • Complete Your Twitter Bio
    Another easy and simple thing to do, by adding a bio on your Twitter profile, people will know what you tweet about etc, this will give them an incentive to possibly follow you back. Make sure that your link for your website is to your website and not a short URL or back to your Twitter page, people want to know what you do on your website. Add your location, even if it’s just the county you live in.
  • Upload A Custom Background
    There are so many [intlink id="some-handy-twitter-websites" type="post"]Twitter Tool[/intlink] out there now that will allow you to design a custom background, doing this will not only make your Twitter page look more professional, but, you can also use this opportunity to add a little more info about yourself on the left hand side of your Twitter page.
  • Watch Your Follow and Followers Counters
    Speaking from experience, if a fellow twitter sees that you are following a large amount and hardly anyone is following you back, then they are going to be a bit dubious about you, either try to keep a healthy follow ratio or have more following you, if you have a lot following you, it usually shows that you are interesting enough to follow ;)
  • IMPORTANT – Don’t Spam
    This is one thing that everyone hates, once someone is followed they usually don’t mind a DM saying thanks for following, but constant DMs saying “buy this”, “get on of these free” and “is this you” will get them to unfollow you in a heartbeat, so just don’t do it.
  • Be Yourself
    This is one thing that people don’t seem to do these days, I don’t mean tweeting things like “in the kitchen”, “watching TV”, “took the dog out”, “just had a drink” but, if you are going to tweet thing like that then add a bit of information to them, like where you are etc. eg “In the kitchen making a brilliant recipe, I’ll blog it for you all later”, “Watching a brilliant new program on TV starring @Schofe”, “Just had a drink with my good mates at the new club in London” if you are taking the dogs out, tweet some interesting photos, TweetPhoto, TwitPic or even Flickr.

So there you go, just some of the things that I follow and if you are new to Twitter then following this may improve your tweeting and hopefully your followers admiration for what you tweet about ;)

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]]> http://blazingminds.co.uk/puts-people-twitter/feed/ 12 Weekly Round Up – Monkey Dust, Twitter Phishing, Google Pagerank http://blazingminds.co.uk/blazing-minds-weekly/ http://blazingminds.co.uk/blazing-minds-weekly/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:55:44 +0000 Karen http://blazingminds.co.uk/?p=1960 The weeks just seem to fly by these days and I can’t believe another week is over, so I’m continuing my series of weekly updates from the Blazing Minds blog where I list blog posts I’ve enjoyed reading as well as some of the stats for the week, such as the top 5 referring websites [...]

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]]> The weeks just seem to fly by these days and I can’t believe another week is over, so I’m continuing my series of weekly updates from the Blazing Minds blog where I list blog posts I’ve enjoyed reading as well as some of the stats for the week, such as the top 5 referring websites that have graciously sent me some traffic over the week.

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Blog Posts I’ve enjoyed reading:

  1. Not so convincing spam comments – Nothing But Random
  2. For The Fallen – Fracas
  3. 10 Most Wanted WordPress Plugins – The Extreme John Blog
  4. Blogging for a cause – Fight SMA – Tycoon Blogger
  5. 5 Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use Cases – Mashable

Top Visited Posts:

  1. Music from the amazing show Monkey Dust!
  2. Avoiding Twitter Phishing Scams in Direct Messages
  3. Is Google PageRank Really That Important Anymore?
  4. WordPress Plugins I find useful for Blog Posting
  5. The New Blazing Minds Blog Search

Top Referring Websites:

  1. Google – 544
  2. EntreCard – 288
  3. StumbleUpon – 196
  4. BlogEngage – 82
    The Daily Meme – 82
  5. Twitter – 62

Top Search Terms:

  1. tunecore vs cdbaby
  2. twitter websites
  3. twitter on orange
  4. twitter delete direct messages
  5. missing purchased itunes music

Top Commentators for the Week

  1. Extreme John – 9 Comments
  2. Klaus @ TechPatio – 7 Comments
  3. Anand Srinivasan – 6 Comments
  4. Nehh – 6 Comments
  5. Angus Maiden – 5 Comments

Ok that’s it for another week, a big thanks to the top 5 commentators and to everyone else who has commented this week ;)

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]]> http://blazingminds.co.uk/blazing-minds-weekly/feed/ 16 Avoiding Twitter Phishing Scams in Direct Messages http://blazingminds.co.uk/avoiding-twitter-phishing-scams/ http://blazingminds.co.uk/avoiding-twitter-phishing-scams/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:11:24 +0000 Karen http://blazingminds.co.uk/?p=1944 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 [...]

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No related posts.]]> 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.

twitter-logoOne 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:

  1. Never provide your Twitter username or password to any website that looks suspicious.
  2. If you are not sure about a link in a DM then don’t click it.
  3. 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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