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Toronto Realtor® — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:58:46 -0000

Growing up (my family calls me Ernie) my Mom always imitated that Ernie and Bert Fishing Skit. I also named my fish "Here"

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Ryan Critchett — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:32:14 -0000

Ha! I can haz your passwerd? Darsh!! Yea.. I got hit up with one of these silly DM's. Red flag right away.

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Jody Urquhart — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:06:07 -0000

Thank you! This has happened to me several times. I have lost followers because they were sent dM spams from me! Very scary

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Awesomer is Awesomer — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:57:02 -0000

Heeeere phishy phishy phishy!

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MonicaRicci — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:29:32 -0000

If I'm already 370% awesome, how can I be 45% awesomer? Hmmm... I was never very good at math. Good post though, as usual. It's amazing when you spend sooo much time online (ahem) how your "something's wacky" radar gets uber-sensitive and you can tell a bogus email/DM/etc from a mile away. Well not literally a mile... or a kilometer to you.
~ Monica

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Fiona Cowan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:31:05 -0000

Excellent article ... I shall RT immediately. I'll also (unless I get a DM asking me not to!) put it on CPRE's east midlands website, where a growing band of campaigning 'silver surfers' are starting to grapple with online communication in a big way.

Thanks for writing this! - Fi

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fionacowan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:26:00 -0000

Thanks for writing this! - Fi

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Christian Russell — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:06:30 -0000

Yeah it's easy to write off these attacks as easy to circumvent...just don't click on any phishy links and/or give them your info. Simple enough...except that many, many people don't spend enough time online to be sensitive to how these attacks work or what they look like. I'm still trying to get my team to not click on links in their emails or open up zip attachments from UPS. lol.

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CharPennyAnn — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:28:10 -0000

Thanks for the warning, especially "showing" us what they look like. Great reminder NOT to just "unfollow" when we get these DM's : ) instead treat it a way to reach out and say "hi, better days ahead".

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Wouter Blom - www.Stramark.nl — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:02:16 -0000

yeh thx! I was already unfollowing friends!

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Jasmin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:22:25 -0000

This post is definitely useful Scott, cuz' this problem keeps coming back! A very worthwhile retweet!

"Heeeere phishy phishy phishy! "-->And thanks for the entertainment at the same time. Always a nice bonus :-)

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Kate — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:47:09 -0000

While I should have checked the URL (obviously) it was very early in the morning, and the page looked EXACTLY like the twitter page. Entered my info w/o thinking twice.

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Mark Nutter — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:37:23 -0000

Follow less than 100 people, make sure they're people you know aren't spammers. Problem solved.

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A Nonymus — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:39:47 -0000

I'm not typing anything here it's just a very sophisiticated phish

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Sally — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:59:03 -0000

Good post - helpful for the likes of me who is on a steep learning curve! {I just got the DM re the funny photo, I did click to open but thankfully the phishing warning came up. I replied to the person who the message came from so hopefully she'll be able fix things at her end!} Thanks again!

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Brian Hart — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:08:55 -0000

45% awesomer... no way! Seriously thanks for the heads up. That's a new one to me and I probably wouldn't have thought much about it until I read your tweet.

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jj — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:11:32 -0000

Anyone who quotes Ernie is OK in my book!

I thought I'd been a phishing victim and chnged my twitter password, only to discover that Tweetdeck won't let you update your password there to reflect the new one.

I ended up changing it back (pretty sure I never gave out the info), but.....ick to not be able to update tweetdeck....

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patrobeck1ofhis — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:19:15 -0000

Scott, it looks like you fishing skills are right up to mine! Some people get downright angry if a friend sends them a warning about something that turns out to be a hoax, but, hey, they were just looking out for you, not just trying to use up your precious bandwidth! It is never wrong to be polite, until it is time to be rude. Keep up the good work.

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Totes McGotes — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:48:33 -0000

I stumbled upon this blog hoping for Large Mouth Bass fishing tips... the F? unfishing? And what does sesame street have to do with baiting a hook. I'm so confused. Now off to go see how I can make $19 on Google... bbl....

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KeithBorgnet — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:28:41 -0000

Thanks for that, i've also been locked out of twitter after i changed my pass word - i guess the phisher is constantly trying to log in

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aflyonthewall — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:13:10 -0000

One thing in addition to changing your password - check the information in your settings...make sure that the email address in the contact info is truly yours. It doesn't do any good to change your password if the "your Twitter password was recently changed" email goes to the bad guys and gives them your new password.

May I also suggest that when you get one of these DMs - let the person know - I post an @ message telling them that there account is sending spam DMs - most people don't know!

Like Ryan - I am so glad to see that someone with your reach is tackling this situation.

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FitFabMargo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:07:44 -0000

This is a helpful reminder to those who read this. Even the smartest among us have been phished. It seems I get these phishing dms daily from people I know and like. Thank goodness I know when these msgs look phishy. I'm glad you put this out there, more people need to know about this and what to do about it. Earlier this afternoon, my friend suggested to use the following Go to: http://twitter.com/account/... You can block potential spammers and phishing exploiters. The bottom line is it doesn't matter how "smart" you are...this can happen to anyone. The point is now: prevent it from happening.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

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juliegoodale — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:31:37 -0000

Thanks, Scott.
I was phished last week. And to those who say, just don't give your info to something that looks suspicious: It didn't look suspicious! The DM came from a friend (an actual friend, not a twitter "friend") & the link led to a page that looked EXACTLY like the twitter sign in page. I was following twitter from Sees. Desktop & not logged in through browser. So when the link brought up the browser w/ log in page, it didn't seem suspicious. I realized pretty quickly & changed my password, but felt quite apologetic for all the crap that was sent out on my acct. (you may have gotten some - sorry!).
I'm now more wary - & also realize the difference between hacking & phishing:)

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Jon Griffith — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:47:23 -0000

A note on passwords. If you develop your own personal system by which you create passwords that change regularly, you'll be less likely to forget them because you'll remember how they were created. Make a system and then stick to it so you can easily generate a new password that fits the system only you know. It will save you hours of time. It's less likely someone will figure out your system than figuring out your password. Tweak your "system's settings" if a password is compromised and gradually move to it. You'll only ever need to know two "systems" of passwords at any given time :).

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Amy Unthank — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:43:22 -0000

I seriously wish there were more ppl like u! Yes, I used u and ppl. I fault Twitter!