DM spam - AllTwitter http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter The Unofficial Twitter Resource Copyright 2013 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:00:51 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Latest Twitter Scam Directs You To Video Showing Obama Punch Someone In The Face First off: No, you will not see a video of President Obama punching someone in the face here – or anywhere for that matter.

That’s the point of this post. The latest attempt to compromise your Twitter account tells you that you will see this Obama video after clicking the attached link, but you won’t. You will have your Twitter account hijacked AND your personal information stolen from your computer though!

So spread the word, because once folks click the link and travel to the official-looking pages that follow, they’ll fall for this hoax. And guess what? You probably would too!

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]]> Mary C. Long http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/twitter-scam-obama-punch_b31971#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/twitter-scam-obama-punch_b31971 http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/?p=31971 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:00:47 +0000