When one of my sr. mentors in social media sent me a tweet with the subject "I feel better and look great." and a very strange xxx.info URL I figured something was up.
Here's what I found.
Turns out this is a common version of Twitter spam. How they get access to these folks accounts I don't know. If I am unwittingly sending similar messages, I also don't know about it.
What I do know is not to trust any of these random links. If it looks like a shortened URL but it's not…
@jmacofearth
permalink: http://bit.ly/tweespam-2
November 12th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Remember the "World's Most Dangerous Battery" viral video?
Here is another viral video for the "World's SAFEST Battery".
They pierced through a real battery to cause a huge explosion.
Among mobile phone batteries, notebook batteries,
there is only one battery that doesn't explode…… Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxlBvKrgVNw