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Re: Practical Guide to Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

Kozan — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:26:44 -0000

Thanks for this informative article.

Re: Practical Guide to Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

Dr David Black — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:50:03 -0000

What am I doing ?
Good question !
I am helping my patients get better through chiropractic.
Dr.David Black
www.blackchiropractic.com.au

Re: Practical Guide to Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

Hubert Sawyers III — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:07:00 -0000

Hey Ken, I meant to say thanks for this post as I sent this to many of my Tweeps as they wondered about all the weird activity going on in the Twitterverse. So thanks and see you at the next Tweetup!

Re: Practical Guide to Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

Ken Burbary — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:15:40 -0000

Notifying them the account has been hijacked, so they can work to restore it. Not to label the account as Twitter spam

Re: Practical Guide to Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

Ken Burbary — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:13:22 -0000

Noted. And updated. Thanks for helping improve this guide.

Re: Practical Guide to Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

Twitter_Tips — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:22:29 -0000

DON'T notify twitter in the present case! Notify the poor person who only has to change their password to take back control

Re: Practical Guide to Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

hillary hartley — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:25:43 -0000

Cool, Ken. You might also want to re-phrase the part about notifying Twitter so the offending accounts can be blocked or deleted. Many of the accounts are "normal" twitter users who have no idea their account has been hijacked. (It's similar to spammers sending email from any email account they want.)

If you get a DM, you might try sending them an @ message to see if they reply, letting them know they should change their password. That should fix it for them.

Re: Practical Guide to Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

Ken Burbary — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:00:47 -0000

Thank you for pointing that out. I've updated the post to reflect only 3rd party Twitter sites that ask for both username and password

Re: Practical Guide to Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

hillary hartley — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:29:35 -0000

Just FYI none of the tools you mention (Twittergrader, Qwitter, Twittercounter) are a risk since they don't ask for your password.

Re: Practical Guide to Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

Josh Peters — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:39:32 -0000

Use common sense. If you're in Twitter (or a Twitter service like Twhirl) and you click a link that then asks you to sign in to Twitter (which you were already signed into) don't do it. Also look at the URL, If it's not twitter.com (or what ever it's pretending to be) then don't use it. If you have signed into a site at least once then you know it's www.siteilike.com and not siteilike.signin-access.com

Re: Practical Guide to Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

chiropractic — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:32:40 -0000

Excellent advice that can't be discussed enough. Some of us will take this info for granted and forget there are those not yet aware of scam and spam potentials. Thanks for making the explanation simple and to the point.

Re: Practical Guide to Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

Jim Gray — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:26:45 -0000

Dude!Thanks for the info!

Re: Practical Guide to Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

Ari Herzog — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:07:13 -0000

Oh please, Ken, there's nothing wrong with clicking links. The important part is don't enter your personal information into websites where you haven't visited before and/or where a Google/Twitter search indicates contrary advice.

Re: Practical Guide to Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

Mike Smith — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:13:45 -0000

If you use Google Chrome, the sites been reported as a phishing site, so it doesn't show for you even if you click it. Kudos to Google Chrome for having that feature built in.

Nice round up of tips too. I was also surprised that it took so long for the phishing to occur.