This afternoon I noticed an interesting e-mail appearing to be from the Twitter support team (support@twitter.com). The e-mail bypassed the Gmail spam filters and used the official twitter logo/e-mail template. The e-mail (below) stated that I had 2 unread messages in my inbox.
The advertised link in the e-mail is http://twitter.com/account/messages/83BFC-B77D4, but in like many spam e-mails, hovering over the URL will display a different destination address.
Upon clicking the link, I was expecting to see some rogue antivirus, but instead I was greeted with a “Candian Healthcare” Viagra/Cialis shopping cart scam.
No hidden iframe, no fake antivirus, just Viagra+Cialis (for the very low price of $6). The only other item dropped down to the browser was two cookies named “LastVisit” and “said”, both expiring on 4-22-2011 with the values of “2010-04-23+01%3A20%3A57”
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Talk about leverage, how many users have twitter accounts? Even if the spammers only get a fraction of that we talking about millions.
I received one this morning but read it on my Blackberry so I didn’t click on the link. Instead, I did a Google search on “Twitter support email” and found your blog. Glad I did. Thanks for posting.
Well done Christie, I’m glad we’ve been able to help you 🙂
i did the same thing as Cristie – just got the same email this morning. Thanks for your help Luis!
I have received several emails. with that…. I think i have an account on Twitter, but never used it…. No time to learn… ANd why should anybody contact me that way…. people i know, have other ways to contact me… And when i look for who the receiver was… OH…. Not my email adress… but other words before @domain…
Today i got 3 emails.. and i have some spare time… so i googled Twitter Support and found this .. Thanks….
thanks, i have recieved 20 of these,
I have been getting the same e-mail, but my G-Mail has intercepted them and put them into the spam box. I too was suspicious so I entered the text and here I am. I was thinking a twitter head was trying to contact me to join.
Glad I checked
I received the exact message, unfortunately, I clicked on it. Now I am not able to access my Twitter account at all…..help!
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