By now we all know that old scam email where someone from Nigeria informs you that you have a huge settlement waiting for you, and if you just send them some basic identifying information, oh, and pay the shipping and handling fee, they’ll send you the payment. There are a few variations on the theme, but the basic idea is the same. It’s an obvious ploy to swindle you out of your own money.
Well there are a few types of SPAM I’ve been noticing lately that seem to be going around the internet more often, and I wonder how many of us are actually falling for them, or better yet, how we’re warning each other about them…
There’s that tweet where a colleague writes to you, usually by DM, “Someone is saying really nasty things about you,” and then there’s a link to click on… please, don’t tell me you’re clicking on that link! Again, the language may be a variation, such as, “You seen what this person is saying about you… terrible things,” but the point is the same. You click on that link (always shortened, by the way, to mask its true location) and you will land on a site containing malware, Trojans (not the good kind), or some other info-stealing virus.
