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Twitters blogs: Another Twitter Phishing Scam

June 29th, 2009

Another scam to attempt to steal our social networking passwords is underway this week. This time the target is Twitter, and this scam invovles fake Twitter blogs.

Twitter Scam

Tweets saying “omg!! is it true what they wrote about you in their twit blog?” are going out from effected user’s profiles. These scams are linking to sbudomain of the site twitterblogs.com in tweets. When clicked, the linked site looks exactly like Twitter’s homepage. In case, you enter your user id and password it tweets out the message mentioned above, and scam spreads.

On Saturday, Britney Spears tweeter profile also got hacked and it posted a tweet saying “Britney has passed today. It is a sad day for everyone. So the last week was quite fun.

britneyspearshackedtwitter

However, it appears like tweets for Twittersblogs have stopped but be aware for any similar scams.

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