Phishing scams hit Twitter

by David on Monday 14th June, 2010 at 09:06 COMMENTS (0)

Twitter seems to have become the latest social networking site to be hit by a huge number of phishing scams.

Twitter Phishing Spam Emails

Emails that look very much like the Twitter official notification emails are coming through to us almost daily suggesting we have changed our email address recently and that we should confirm our email address.

A link to confirm that our email address is given that looks like it would go to Twitter.com but if you hover over the link for a second or two you find it is either an ip address or a czech republic website link.

Clicking the link may take you to a phishing scam site or a site selling some dodgy version of viagra or other such drug, but hopefully will be stopped by your vigilant browser phishing scam detector stating that "the site you are visiting has been reported as a phishing site, are you sure you wish to visit it".

Spam emails are an everyday occurrence and seem to be unstoppable, they get more cunning and devious each week, at least it does not take much to hit delete, and although they can be annoying if you treat every email with a little suspicion you should be safe and never get scammed.

Good luck out there.

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Spam and Scam emails get serious

by David on Friday 19th February, 2010 at 08:02 COMMENTS (0)

Scams are part and parcel of the Internet, we are used to spam and scam emails now, we delete them without thought, and pay no attention to them like the adverts between our favourite programmes on TV and the ads on websites.

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Beware tech support emails

by David on Tuesday 13th October, 2009 at 14:10 COMMENTS (0)

It is disturbing when you receive an email that looks genuine and has a ring of truth to it containing a link to an urgent update, and in the blink of an eye you click and suddenly you are infested with virus and spyware.

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Another day another scam

by David on Monday 14th September, 2009 at 09:09 COMMENTS (0)

It is a fact of life these days being scammed, seems like everyone is doing it.

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Does this scam actually work

by David on Thursday 3rd September, 2009 at 15:09 COMMENTS (1)

I thought that these scams would die off but I suppose the thing about the Internet is that there is a never ending flow of new people coming onto it who could be fleeced for everything they own.

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