4th
Is it a Phish rash?
So I’m not talking about the jam band from Vermont (I think) but the evil, evil attempt by scumbags around the world to steal critical information from innocent people by linking them to fake sites.
It’s crap, it really is.
Like spam, I often wonder where these guys are that do this stuff. Do they have board rooms? Do they have meetings to come up with their phishing schemes? Was one of them like “Hey, I don’t think we’ve hit up twitter yet”? Or, “we really need to improve that Citibank site, its lacking authenticity.” I suppose a ton of similar evil goes on, like theft, etc, and its just more of that.
But, jeez, leave twitter alone! It’s just a bunch of geeks sharing information. What, are you going to steal our email addresses? To send us more spam about male ED, with obvious subject lines? (“Show her your big tool”)
Or maybe its to send out spam tweets, like the random followers I get, when, when I go to follow them, as is my way, I see they’re twittering about easy wealth now. Nope.
If I were to be a rich dude, I’d rather sit around with my cash and know I EARNED it by working HARD. Just saw a great twitter that said “only in the dictionary does success come before work”.
Anyhow, I ramble. What was great to see was the immediate response from the community, warning each other, and twitter putting up a warning message. As a bit of an add-on to the review yesterday, twitter definitely has a communal vibe to it. And I can’t say FB does.
The moral of this story? Don’t click links that are weird. Trust who you know, don’t open the door to strangers (except UPS) and for pete’s sake don’t give info through weird emails, or direct messages on Twitter. Or help a king’s secretary smuggle millions out of Nigeria.
We’re all f’ng smarter than that.
