Twitter Phishing Scam

By Darren On January 4, 2009 Under twitter

Be very careful of any direct messages (DM’s) you receive on Twitter in the near future. There is talk among bloggers and Twitter users of a mass phishing scam attempting to gain access to your Twitter account by sending you a phony link via DM which will prompt you to login to your Twitter account.

If you take note of the URL you are being directed to, it will be along the lines of twitter.access-logins.com or a suspicious blogspot domain. Be sure to either login purely from the main Twitter website (http://www.twitter.com), or for 3rd-party applications and services, try and ensure that it is safe to do so and they won’t use your account details for anything suspicious.

Hopefully Twitter will get these scammers shut down shortly, but in the mean time take care.