A new week, and a new scam to attempt to steal our social networking passwords is underway. Today, the target is Twitter, and the scam involves fake Twitter blogs.
Over the past hour, hundreds of tweets have gone out with the message “omg!! is it true what they wrote about you in their twit blog?” and linking to a subdomain of the site twittersblogs.com. When clicked, the linked site looks exactly like Twitter’s homepage. However, if you provide it with your username and password, it tweets out the message, and hence, the scam spreads.
You would think this scam would be fairly easy to avoid. After all, each tweet says “is it true what they wrote about you” but isn’t actually directed at anyone specific. Nonetheless, users that are too quick to the trigger are falling for it, and it’s been spreading like wildfire this morning.