How to protect your Twitter account from Scammers

As many of you are probably aware Twitter has been flooded by a phishing scam. The scammers are putting up websites that look exactly like Twitter. These websites prompt you to login with your Twitter username and password and then use your Twitter account to spam your followers. They send DM’s and @replies under your account with their phishing url. Your followers may then click on the link, give their credentials and have the exact same thing happen. Our DM’s are flooded with different variations and URL’s of this scam. So what can you do to protect your account?

DON’T put your Twitter username and password into a domain that is not under http://www.twitter.com.  Check your browsers address bar before logging in and make sure the url in the address bar is http://www.twitter.com. 

BE VERY CAREFUL what outside Twitter applications you give your password to.  If an outside application asks for your password, read their terms and do a little research on who is behind the application.  If wary at all don’t give your password.

If anyone has further suggestions on how to protect your Twitter account, please posts them in a comment.

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