New Twitter scam "Your Online Timer" spreading rapidly
Twitter users, beware of an online scam doing the rounds across the popular microblogging / social networking website. Your Online Timer, a rogue application designed to help scammers by spreading links pointing to online surveys is spreading fast across Twitter, IT security firm Sophos warned.
The Your Online Timer application claims to count how long Twitter users have been members of the social networking site.
Sophos reports a variant of the following message appearing on various Twitter profiles within the past day, allegedly displaying the affected Twitter user's time spent on the site:
The message appears on Twitter profiles after users authorise "Your Online Timer" application to access and update their Twitter accounts.
Sophos says once you authorize the application to post to your Twitter profile, users are redirected to a website which claims to indicate their time spent on Twitter. After this a page pops up in the browser displaying a survey which earns the scammers money for each questionnaire completed.
Twitter users, beware of an online scam doing the rounds across the popular microblogging / social networking website. Your Online Timer, a rogue application designed to help scammers by spreading links pointing to online surveys is spreading fast across Twitter, IT security firm Sophos warned.
The Your Online Timer application claims to count how long Twitter users have been members of the social networking site.
Sophos reports a variant of the following message appearing on various Twitter profiles within the past day, allegedly displaying the affected Twitter user's time spent on the site:
The message appears on Twitter profiles after users authorise "Your Online Timer" application to access and update their Twitter accounts.
Sophos says once you authorize the application to post to your Twitter profile, users are redirected to a website which claims to indicate their time spent on Twitter. After this a page pops up in the browser displaying a survey which earns the scammers money for each questionnaire completed.
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