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A direct message from Twitter Administration. Can you tell if it’s legitimate or not?

Published by pratyushkp on July 23rd, 2011 - in Social, Technology

For a long time we’ve seen spammers, phishers and malware authors concealing their advertising pitches, scams and malicious payloads by pretending to be a message from a social network, whether it claims to originate from Facebook, Twitter or even MySpace.

Here’s one of the latest we caught today, claiming to come from Twitter.

Twitter-er!

You have 2 direct message from Twitter Administration
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The Twitter Administration

Google+ runs out of disk space, spams users with notifications

Published by pratyushkp on July 11th, 2011 - in Social, Technology

Some early adopters of Google+ have found themselves bombarded with multiple notification messages in their email, due to a bug in the social networking’s code after the site – astonishingly – ran out of disk space.

Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice-President of Social for Google, posted an apology (appropriately enough) on his Google+ account to those users affected, painting the social network as having been a victim of its own success.

The first big Google+ spam campaign blasted out by pill-pushers

Published by pratyushkp on July 2nd, 2011 - in Social, Technology
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In what may very well be the first major cybercriminal campaign exploiting the Google+ brand, spammers are sending out bogus Google+ invitations that in reality point to online pharmacies.

The messages look similar to the real emails that users may receive from friends who are already members of Google+.

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