You might already know that i’m on twitter. And because i often told you – and still tell you – that you should become a twitterer as well, i also need to tell you about some bad things that are going on there recently.

It’s about the latest phishing tricks in and around twitter.com…

It started last week, on Friday if i remember correctly, that many people received DMs (Direct Messages) or email notifications about new DMs, from other twitterers.

In that DM was a bad link to a phishing site. You know that kind of “it’s funny, click it now!” links.

The phishing site is a copy of the original twitter.com startpage that were only made to get passwords from you! Take care.

Here’s what you can should do…

How to protect yourself from twitter-spam!

Here are 3 golden rules for everybody, twitterer or not:

1. Know your followers/friends. Don’t believe every shit. Don’t blind-follow every “funny” link.
2. Make sure you’re on twitter.com when you log in. No sub-domain, no other urls, only twitter.com.
3. Don’t spread the “funny” DM and its evil links.

Know your followers!

There’s nothing wrong with following people and their recommendations. That’s the main thing at twitter.

But better check links twice these days. And don’t log-in to every little new application that says it’s cool.

Use twitter.com actively but not naively.

Make sure you’re on twitter.com!

This rule counts for every other website. Just make sure you’re on the correct page! Use Firefox! Check the browser’s address bar!

Especially when it comes to a log-in process, always take it so seriously like online-banking.

Strange people can do a lot of nasty shit with your password and name and bio and photos – and it’s still much too easy for those criminals.

Don’t spread the “funny” DM!

Don’t send that phishing urls to other twitterers by using a Direct Message. Better don’t even post the wrong domains in a tweet.

Maybe you only want to help and tell other people about it, but with a little bad luck your “help” will lead other people to the wrong sites and BANG! It was your fault, you gave them the link.

Also the guys in the twitter.com headquarter are doing a good job and fight those spammers. What when the headquarter finds your DMs?

Fun or not, you twitter account could be in big danger.

Change your password now!

To make sure you are no victim of the latest phishing attack, change your twitter password now.

If you want, write a blog post about it, like Chris Brogan and Chris Pirillo did.

And if you want to do me a favor, do NOT visit sites like twitter . access-logins . com or rosalierebyb . blogspot . com

Read the official statement and some supportive hints in the twitter blog as well.

And have a nice phishing-free day ;-)

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