Spam from my gmail account last night

Apologies to everyone that received a spam message from my richard.arblaster gmail account, it seems that my account had been infiltrated by a spam/phishing bot. The password was changed last night. Do not under any circumstances click the link contained within that email, just delete it. As a precaution change your gmail password. Rest assured that email was definitely NOT sent by me, I hate both types of spam the...

URL shorteners

Yes these sites that let you shorten a large cumbersome URL to a set of 4-6 characters, popularly used by twitter. One such URL shortening service bit.ly was blocked by open dns (a very popular free DNS service). So everyone who was using open dns as their DNS servers were greeted by a warning page telling them it had been blocked as it was a phishing site. It was fixed within half an hour of being reported. It...

Twitter iPhone DMs

Came across a couple of DMs this morning about a free iPhone from helloiphones.com did some digging on google and came across this blog post http://www.twittertruth.com/?p=71 about it. I think this a hangover from the funny blog phishing DM earlier. According to the author these DMs are coming from the same compromised accounts. However this doesn’t work for UK twitter accounts you get a message to say you...

Twitter scammers

Please get a grip on reality, your scam isn’t going to work, word gets round quickly on Twitter. Those that innocently gave away their login credentials have already been given advised on how to change their passwords. I do not know what you guys are trying to gain from doing this? Twitter is a place for getting to know each other, serious business is rarely discussed on here. It is done away from twitter...