Having been inundated with Facebook spam over recent months, it appears twitter spam is joining the noise. I received a few emails yesterday and thought I’d point out ways you can identify them as spam. So here it is, a pretty normal looking email, suggesting I have an unread message:
But if you look closer what can you see?
Things to notice:
1. The email isn’t addressed to anyone specific. The “Hi,” should detail my twitter name as in “Hi AgencyLogic,”
2. The body of the text has a typo: “You have 1 unreaded message”
3. If you place your mouse over the link (don’t click it!) you will see the link goes to a domain name that definitely isn’t twitter. I don’t know what hollipalmer.com is and have no plans on finding out.
The lesson to be learned here is look before you click, hope this helps.
Great post…facebook phony emails too BTW
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