New Phishing Scam Hits Twitter
Twitter issued a warning about phishing e-mails that tell users they have unread messages on the micro-blogging site. The warning was published on Friday, April 23, 2010.
The e-mails, coming from a support@twitter.com e-mail address, tell members that they have unread, delayed, or undelivered messages on Twitter, and ask them to click a link in the e-mail to view the mystery messages. These e-mails are indeed spam, but they are difficult to identify for most Twitter users because of the apparent source of the e-mail.
Twitter denied sending out the e-mails.
“Twitter does not send any messages of this type; support@twitter.com does not send notifications in general,” the company wrote on its status blog.
The e-mail itself does not appear to contain malware, Twitter said. The link in the e-mail actually takes users to a pharmaceutical site, though to get to that site, users are re-routed through several other sites, which could contain malware.
“We’re actively pursuing measures to get these sites shut down; in the meantime, we recommend that you not click on the link and instead just delete any such e-mails you receive,” Twitter said.
If you identify any of these e-mails, please delete them immediately to protect your account.
Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained extensive notability and popularity worldwide. It is described as the “SMS of the Internet,” in that the site provides the functionality via its API
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