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The pool of phishing scams on Twitter is seemingly bottomless. Every time we turn around, there is a new one popping up, or an old one reemerging, or some other unfortunate development that sends us rushing to the presses only to give users the same advice over and over again: Don’t click on that link.
The most recent scam comes in the form of a direct message declaring “you’re on this vid!” followed by a link. Click the link and you’ll be led to a page that looks an awful lot like the login page for Twitter. But don’t be fooled. Check that address bar and you’ll quickly see that you are not, in fact, on Twitter. If you make the mistake of trying to log into the fake page, your account will be hijacked and used to send the same message to all of your followers.
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