Fake Twitter Notification Phishing Scam
If you receive an email purportedly from Twitter like the one below, it’s fake, DO NOT click the link.
How do we know this is a scam? There’s some details advice over at the TiGra Networks blog, but for this instance here’s how. Well, firstly it is all a bit vague and just seems like something twitter wouldn’t send. The main giveaway though is that the links don’t go where the appear to go. In Outlook, hovering the mouse (without clicking) over a link shows you the exact destination of the link. Note the little popup window in my screen shot:
(not Twitter!)
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