My Twitter account was hacked. Second time this has happened (different scam this time). I clicked on a link from someone I follow. I did nothing else. The page never even loaded, Then several days later in one-fell-swoop, my account started DMing all my followers in the course of a few minutes with a similarly personal sounding message and prompt to click on an "IQ Me" link.
Total scam artists as they rope you into a fee service should you ever actually click through and take the quiz. I Googled them.This is the kind of stuff the FTC is trying to stop. Let's help them in any way we can and keep the tweetstream clean.
My apologies for anyone affected. Don't click on any 'IQ test' link prompts from me in a DM.
The one good news? Thanks to some great followers - @NathanRichie, @SusanEJacobsen, @ConversationAge, @thebrandbuilder, @Kat4PR, @labfly, and especially @mrgingold who let me know in the first place.
Here is a helpful (if a bit admonishing) link ot a helpul blogpost from ChelPixie: http://chelpixie.com/blog/2009/11/02/recovering-from-twitter-phishing/
Dear John,
Thanks for sharing this. The same happened to me on Nov 26th. My twitter account was hacked. I clicked on a link from someone I follow (heydaysstudio - a design firm in Oslo, Norway, which is a legitimate company who also became a victim of this scam). The very same day my account was hacked and IQ test spam message was sent from my account to all my followers. It took me almost a day to clean up all this mess and apologize to all my followers for this spam message.
I have reset my twitter password and it seems like everything is
OK now. So, if you haven't done so, please reset your password
asap. If you have any new info about this IQ test spam, I would
love to hear it and would gladly contribute my time in helping FTC anyway I can to track these scammers down.
Sincerely,
Andrey Nagorny
Creative Director
UNIT-Y
http://twitter.com/AndreyNagorny
Posted by: Andrey Nagorny | November 29, 2009 at 11:12 PM