{"id":4530,"date":"2012-06-29T15:52:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T19:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2012-06-29T15:53:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T19:53:51","slug":"hey-someone-is-saying-really-bad-rumors-about-you-beware-of-this-fake-twitter-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/hey-someone-is-saying-really-bad-rumors-about-you-beware-of-this-fake-twitter-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey someone is saying really bad rumors about you…Beware of this fake Twitter message"},"content":{"rendered":"

The criminals are getting more clever by the day. This time they almost fooled me. I was tired and in a hurry and I got an official looking email from Twitter (and we get quite few) that said, “Hey someone is saying really bad rumors about you… bit.ly\/XXXXXXX” (the link has been changed to protect you). And this came to our @cloud8 twitter account.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t figure out who’d saying really bad things about me — but I sure thought of some rumors about EB that would be juicy…<\/p>\n

But anyway, being the valiant one, I didn’t want anyone spreading rumors about EB (even if they were true) so I clicked the link to read the message online — and was, as expected, presented with a Twitter login box — except LastPass wasn’t automatically signing me in as it usually does. I thought perhaps LastPass was being uncharacteristically remiss — then it hit me — I was almost duped into giving away our @cloud8 password to a bunch of stupid crooks. I looked at the address bar of my browser and sure enough it showed http:\/\/ tvvitiler.com (Don’t go there) – and not\u00a0https:\/\/twitter.com\/<\/a>\u00a0 as it should have been. I skedaddled out of there leaving EB to protect her own tarnished reputation.<\/p>\n

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\nAbove is a screen shot of the fake Twitter message – some information was intentionally obscured to protect the person whose Twitter account was hijacked.<\/p>\n

If not for LastPass — I’d have blindly fallen for a phishing scheme because I was tired and careless. Just because it looked like a Twitter message – and the return address was forged to @twitter.com ) I blindly clicked the link to reply to the person who supposedly sent the private message to @cloud8.<\/p>\n

I’ve been working with computers for 17 years now — and I am aware of almost all of the tricks. But I almost fell for this one. The moral of the story is — anyone can be tricked. Be careful. Be wary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The criminals are getting more clever by the day. This time they almost fooled me. I was tired and in a hurry and I got an official looking email from Twitter (and we get quite few) that said, “Hey someone is saying really bad rumors about you… bit.ly\/XXXXXXX” (the link has been changed to protect you). And this\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions\/4532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}