There’s a phishing scheme being run against Twitter users right now. It looks like the objective is the collection of more Twitter passwords, but I’d expect that there is some other fraudulent angle as well that is perhaps yet to be revealed. In any case, avoid clicking on links in direct messages and if you’ve given your password to a third party service, you may want to change it.
Phishing on Twitter
January 4, 2009
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