How to Protect Yourself From the Twitter Fishing Hack with GMail

Sure, for some a look alike site is an invitation to enter your information. Not sure how this continues to fool people so often, when there is CLEARLY a URL in the address bar that screams “I AM A HACK”, LMAO

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But alas, some are still fooled. And from the looks of my email box, this is NOT over yet. So if you are using Gmail, all you need to do is create a quick filter and you should be golden. Just DO NOT click on DM links on the Twitter side and you do not need to worry. Most hackers are lazy about masking the obvious, because

they still get people to click anyway.

Well let me show you the obvious on these Twitter DM (direct message) hacker emails and how to block them with Gmail real easy.

It is hard to believe all of the big user IDs that this has spread through! People like Brittney and Barack Obama have all been snagged. Also Fox News and even Rick Sanchez who loves Twitter and is a CNN News anchor had a tweet reading that he is “high on crack and might not be coming into work today.”

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Fox News Tweeted that “Bill O’Rielly is Gay” which I know offended every gay man and woman in America. They DO NOT want to be associated with him in any way, LMAO.  Just look at some of these crazy screen shots from the guys at Read Write Web!

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Twitter _ britneyspears.jpg

2 Comments

  1. Jeff Miller says:

    Hey John,

    I saw a bunch of them a day or so ago but not lately. They came in two batches, one had unmasked links and the others had masked links.

    Firefox 3 took care of the masked links with it’s forged site warning. One more reason IE is losing market share to FF.

  2. Jeff Miller says:

    Hey John,

    I saw a bunch of them a day or so ago but not lately. They came in two batches, one had unmasked links and the others had masked links.

    Firefox 3 took care of the masked links with it’s forged site warning. One more reason IE is losing market share to FF.

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