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[BT Let's Talk] The social spam, hack and scam plague: should we do like Chris ...: But, as we all know, spammers and scammers are smart and often ahead of the security community. Furthermore, many social media users, and in general Internet users, are less ”˜experienced’ than others or less ”˜trained’ in recognizing malicious attempts.

[KeyCAPTCHA.com Myths (Scams) Debunking] To Spam or Not To ... - KeyCAPTCHA.com Myths (Scams) Debunking: This is something new that I did not discover immediately because Twitter is very lousy in presenting me my own tweets and the owner of twitter account is not notified about its own tweets.

[AVG] New Twitter Email Spam Phishing Attack: But of course you’re not actually on the Twitter web site, but a scam one - itwitier.com. So if you provide your account details by logging on here, the bad guys will have them.

[Lockergnome Posts] How to Protect Yourself from a Twitter Scam with Safego ...: Users of Safego can opt into automatic warnings, which are sent by Safego via direct message if Safego detects a possible threat in your Twitter activity. You can also have Safego scan your direct messages for threats, and also warn a friend if a threat originates from their account.

[AllTwitter] Trends In Spam And Scams On Social Networks [INFOGRAPHIC ...: The infographic below also makes it very clear that spammers are becoming sophisticated. Sure, there are still plenty of “OMG check out this vid!”

[techtrickz] BitDefender Safego For Twitter Protect You From Spam and Fishing ...: In addition, Safego helps you to protect those you follow by means of automatic warning messages informing them about detected threats.

[Big Is The New Small] 7 Ways To Avoid The Twitter Spam Scam | Big Is The New Small: These hacks consist of random spam DM’s (direct messages) being sent to their followers with a link attached to it.  When individuals click on these links, their accounts can also be compromised creating a vicious cycle.

[Social Media Camp McAllen] Social Media Camp McAllen » Blog Archive » Sneaky Skype Scam: I toured around the Skype community and found this is becoming a common platform for scams and spam, much like Facebook, Twitter and probably soon to be Google+, Hooray!

[AVG (AU/NZ) Blog] Twitter email spam phishing attack | AVG (AU/NZ) Blog: So if you’ve been naughty and used the same details on multiple accounts like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc., then they all could be compromised.

[Tweet Smarter] Fake Email scam spreading “from Biz Stone” do NOT click: Got a Twitter email notification from Biz Stone (@biz)? It's fake. Link takes you to malware—do NOT click. Here's what the email looks like: source.

[AllTwitter] 5 Clues That You're Reading Twitter Spam - AllTwitter: Most Twitter scams seem to spam the network with messages that appear too-good-to-be-true in some way (that scandalous video of Justin Bieber? Nope, sorry, it’s just a scam), and then get users to click away from Twitter to a third-party website which either collects personal data, tries to get a credit card subscription, asks users to fill out a survey or even phishes for passwords.

[Tweet Smarter] Fake Email scam spreading “You have 1 lost direct message on ...: Here is a fake Email scam going around. This is NOT a legitimate email Is it NOT from Twitter Do NOT click the link in the email Here is a sample of what the email looks like:

[Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social media] Sneaky Skype Scam | Social Media Today: Once upon a time last week, I received a call on Skype and was fairly confused as why one would call me. Well it was a robot recording that would repeat endlessly and went a little like this:

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