Phishing

Alongside today’s Facebook profile phishing, a Twitter phishing scheme was also making the rounds.  The scheme is fairly similar, actually, leveraging a site which appears to be twitter in order to capture login names and passwords. Here’s the abridged version:

• A phishing site exists at the domain: tvviter.com
• Look closely – that’s two v’s above parading as a w… and we’re shy one t
• Users are being lured to the site by shortened URLs on Twitter and other sites
• When unsuspecting users attempt to login, their account information is captured

Once your account information is captured, your account will likely be used to spread the spam about the phishing site.  Twitter users beware.

Below: it may look like Twitter, but it’s not. The URL cleverly replaces the w in Twitter with two v’s and drops that last t.  Pretty convincing at a glance.

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