Twitter Direct Messages Spam with a twist.

[efeezy]

Anyone else receive direct messages today from your Twitter followers that has this text:

TWITTERNAME: make $300 a day with Make Money from Home!

I'm not talking about the normal "make money at home" spammers.

I got 5 of these within minutes from people I know wouldn't be sending out these types of DM's. These are from like CNN, TheGolfChanel, and a few other big names. Looks like they got their accounts jacked, at least temporarily.

 

[Enigmabomb]

Its a wide spread phishing attack apparently.

 

[n0fxx]

Wow. a spam. I've never seen one of those before. Thank you for bringing this to my attn.jk

just click delete and move on w life=

 

[nvanprooyen]

Wow. a spam. I've never seen one of those before. Thank you for bringing this to my attn.jk

just click delete and move on w life=

You're an idiot.

 

[Roundabout]

So let's see. we've got

SPAM = email ads

SPIM = instant message ads

SPIT = Twitter crap?

 

[DiscoFail]

lol, spit.
I wonder how they do it though, I had my programmer have a look at it some time ago, but he knows jack shit about any blackhat stuff.

 

[Rage9]

lol, spit.
I wonder how they do it though, I had my programmer have a look at it some time ago, but he knows jack shit about any blackhat stuff.

Then your programmer isn't much of a programmer.

 

[bammbamm]

SPIT = Twitter crap?

This is "Spam over Internet Telephony" for spammy sip messages etc, at least that's how i've seen it used in VOIP forums and mailing lists.