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Oct 29 2009

I Feel Better and Look Great! Twitter Spam Attack

Category: tech opinion, toolsjmacofearth @ 12:17 PM

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.

feelbetter spam

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

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