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Twitter spam or Twitter virus?
Relating to the iPhone…
I was hoping that someone would kindly send me an iPhone after reading my last post 
I just got these two messages from @thepinkpeppercorn and @deejackson - the funny thing is that last time I checked, their profiles were genuine.. @thepinkpeppercorn’s profile has now been disabled, but I am wondering if we have a case of Twitter virus on our hands… don’t click anything dodgy folks!
Has anyone received anything similar?
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05/01/2009 - 11:16 am
it’s a big phishing scam – although other than sending out more bogus links, I’m not sure what else it does
avoid any links in odd sounding DMs
05/01/2009 - 11:19 am
Bastards! Excuse my French
– I feel sorry for whoever is contaminated as their accounts could be disabled – I think @deejackson’s profile is 100% genuine…
05/01/2009 - 11:33 am
hey, i got messages like this from my friends, sounds like spam
06/01/2009 - 11:14 am
I had the same e-mails! Thought is was a bit odd, so I did ignore them, good thing! But as you said it would have been nice get a free iphone, but of course too good to be true!
07/01/2009 - 3:41 am
a sure sign that the twitter has gone mainstream…
07/01/2009 - 9:27 am
Its a scam alright. I had it too. Wired have just done a piece on the story behind it…
http://bit.ly/8Ymb
07/01/2009 - 7:51 pm
Neil thanks so much for the link – fascinating!
09/01/2009 - 12:24 am
Yep … scam … and it is ongoing