Normally I wouldn’t make a blog post about a phishing email, but tonight I received one that didn’t get caught by Gmail’s spam filter. It had me believing it was real since I hadn’t seen phishing email pretending to be Twitter before.
The email was supposedly from the address “support@twitter.com” telling me my account was suspended for excessive following. You can see a screenshot the email to the right.
While I knew I hadn’t recently followed a bunch of people, I thought maybe someone had hacked my account and followed people and that the email might be legit, until I read that I needed to click a link to “complete some offers” for to avoid account suspension.
Further examination revealed the link to be “http://mexico.cnn.com/redirectComplete.php?url=//bit%2Ely/ouvgwt” which redirects to “http://emailus.it.tc/” where you can see offers to complete.
Obviously, not from Twitter. Beware.
We should beware this email,after you receive this email try to check your account and try to logging in. And don’t click those links that the have send.