Twitter facing another phishing scam?
Mikey 6 commentsJust a quickie to advise anyone tweeting to be wary of what could be a phishing scam perpetrated by the same mob responsible for a recent Facebook equivalent.
The direct message I received this morning from a follower called "chipwiginton" simply read "check this out http://videos.twitter.shjjiwe.com/?abqqldlyr" which goes to a page that throws an error.
Notice shjjiwe.com in the domain. If you hit that domain you'll see something that looks just like the Twitter sign-in page (although the extra closing character in the mark-up rendered on the page immediately raises alarm bells). Obviously I don't need to tell you not to enter your details there.
When this scam , apparently affected accounts would be set to automatically spam your friends walls. I suspect the Twitter variant would do something similar, but searching Google this morning for more information only revealed nearly no information on this Twitter scam, but some results for the Facebook version.
A quick whois check reveals the domain to belong to someone in China, although that information might be inaccurate.
If your using Firefox you should now see the "Reported Web Forgery" warning, although that didn't appear about 30 minutes ago when I first hit the site.
Anyhoo, take caution, spread the word just in case.
Diso
Thursday 5th November 2009 | 07:07 AMWhy did you go to the site if you knew it was a scam?
...in response to this comment by Diso. I didn't pay any attention to the URL given to me by "chip" at first but when I went to the page and say the stray > character I knew something was not right. A quick glance in the address bar and I noticed the domain wasn't right. You can see it here (but don't enter any details!): http://shjjiwe.com/?abqqldlyr
another reason for me to not be on twitter
GillAdventures
Thursday 5th November 2009 | 11:17 PMThank you~ got one of these last night, but I did not open it. Even sent a message back to the sender to ask him. I tend not to open any links in twitter DMs anymore. Anyway, thanks for confirming my doubts.
Angelina
Friday 6th November 2009 | 05:26 AMI got one of these as well but damned if I can find anywhere on twitter to report it.
Branigan
Thursday 5th November 2009 | 07:03 AMGood catch.