Phishing Twitter Password-Beware

by Jinsen Karedath on Nov.07, 2009, under Information Technology

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I would like to bring to your notice about a ‘Twitter fraud’ in which the person trying to capture password.

Today I got a direct massage in Twitter from one of my followers-faisalp77

Name: faisal Perincheeri

Location UAE

Web : http://faisalp.blogspot.com/

His message was this : “you should check this http://twitter.photoalbum.dsfasdc.com”

When I click on this link it will go to a Twitter login page and ask for username and password once gives it goes to other page. I had doubt since I have password saved in my system, even though I have given my username and password, later only I could realize that it could be a fraudulent activity.

This page is already listed in google and google suggest “Warning – phishing (web forgery) suspected”

I checked in Twitter whether they have such domain, but search did not bring any result. So I checked the main domain (dsfasdc.com), it belongs to someone in China. The details

Domain Name: dsfasdc.com

Registrar: XIN NET TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Whois Server: whois.paycenter.com.cn
Referral URL: http://www.xinnet.com
Status: OK

Expiration Date: 2010-09-21
Creation Date: 2009-09-21
Last Update Date: 2009-09-21

IP: 202.99.172.170
IP Location: Hebei, China
Website Status: inactive

So I believe this is a fraudulent activity to get Twitter Password

Yes, it is Now my twitter account is locked”

Locked out!

We’ve temporarily locked your account after too many failed attempts to sign in. Please chillax for a few, then try again.

We all get enough information about phishing even though get trapped… this is what happened to me… Beware….