Avoid Tweeterfast – this site will give you more than 100 followers…
Update: 10/06/2009
Though this was not an obvious phishing campaign that takes your money, McAfee Site Advisor Rating:
Phishing or other scams
This site uses your Twitter account info to send spammy messages to your followers. Here is an example:
“I got 100 followers using http://TwitPWR.com/swf/ . Check it out!”
This is a clear case identity theft. I advise you to not fill your twitter username and password in this site.
Posted at 09/23/2009-08:49:43 PM by Alexis Kauffmann
Ryan Johnson is currently running another spam campaign on Twitter via Followersquick<>info [IP:124.217.246.188] .
Toxic URLs on Twitter can get me fired up faster than any other social networking site. I think it is because the time it takes for Twitter to notice that there is a problem, and then for Twitter to act on it — leaves a huge security hole and enables the bad guys to maximize and control the dark side of Twitter.
I’ve been watching the dark side of Twitter for over 7 months now, and there is a lot of malware stories that do not unfold at my blog. There are also security experts outside of Twitter who follow up and have become just as frustrated with Twitter Internet security as I have become.
For the record, I am highly vocal about the fact that I think Twitter has a social obligation to the Internet community as a whole. I think that they need to act upon social networking threats that transpire at their site immediately, and to have a rapid response system in place to confirm or deny the validity of reported offenses and offenders.
Current keyword culprits that have gone viral are [note that all are posted via API abuse]:
“This site just gave me 100 followers using hxxp://xrl<>us/bfosj8″
“I just got 100 followers using hxxp://TwitPWR<>com/swb/”
“I got 100 followers using http://is<>gd/3BP6e Go check it out”
“This site is great I got 100 followers in a day using hxxp://twi<>cc/Bjry”
“Hey Get 100 followers a day using xxtp://yumurl<>com/9yPYKZ. Its super fast!”
“You should check this site out if you want 100 followers a day” hxxp://tinyurl<>com/n3oeal
“If you want 100 followers a day use” hxxp://alturl<>com/kdqj
“I use hxxp://TwitPWR<>com/swg/ to get 100 followers a day. It work great”
“If you trying to get more followers go to hxxp://shorten<>ws/bee0c2.You will get 100 followers fast!”
tweeterfast<>com Originates from IP: 124.217.246.188.
tweeterfast<>com
tweeteradder<>com
www.tweeteradder<>com
www.tweeterfollow<>com
www.tweeterpro<>com
tweeterfast<>com has a 301 from quick-followers<>com
Whois Information for tweeterfast.com
Registar ENOM, INC.
Registration Data:
Registered on 2009-09-23
Last updated on 2009-09-23
Expires on 2010-09-23
Nameservers:
ns1.tweeterfollow.com: 124.217.246.188
ns2.tweeterfollow.com: (DOES NOT EXIST)
Owner:
Admin:
Tech:
ryanjohnson2007hotmail.com
Ryan Johnson
+1.4103563433
+1.5555555555
Deadly Is Great
1533 Blue St.
Baltimore, Maryland 21217
US
Current nameservers are listed under tweeterfollow<>com. Check out this interesting archived page.
Rest assured that before this campaign is done — TWEETERFAST will give you more than 100 followers…
Don’t forget to check out their rules. When you sign up for an account at Tweeterfast, you are giving them the login and password to your account to further promote their site and your Twitter account will be hijacked.
Stay tuned for continued updates on Twitter as they become available.
Until next time — Stay Safe Online!
3 Comments
to my boo!!!!!
to my boo!!!!!
It amazes how many people out there are willing to give away their usernames and passwords to the first one who promises such poor benefit. The first thing we hear when we start learning to use a computer is “keep your password in a safe place” btu it seems there are thousands of Twitter users who never got that point.