Scratch that- The Internet BLOWS!
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 12:04PM Stephen here. I usually pride myself in being completely phish-proof.
No. Not you, Trey.
Boing Boing also fell victim to this and they worded it better than I could have...
Twitter phishing scam
I just fell for a Twitter phishing scam -- it took the form of a direct message from one of my contacts, with the message "This you????" and a link to a site that prompted me for my Twitter password (which, like an idiot, I entered before noticing that the URL was twitter.scammysite.com; blame it on browsing with a tiny mobile-phone screen while in line at the coffee shop). You have been warned -- stay away from anything that reads "This you????" or "This you in this video????" Hell, I think that a good rule of thumb is to ignore anything that uses multiple question marks for emphasis. Even if it's not a scam, it's probably too dumb to read.
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Too many question marks??? SERIOUSLY!?!?!?! Other than that comment, Cory Doctorow has it all right. If this gets you, you may want to change every password linked to your twitter. Ie your Email and everything connected to that. Ie facebook, myspace, reddit, hype machine, amazon, ebay blah blah All that shit.
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Thought that was a picture of me for a second, but then I couldn't think I would have flipped off the camera.
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