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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

On The Workbench: Twitter and Hotmail phish tales





I'm fairly new at this Twitter thing, and I'm still prone to rookie mistakes. And for a few days, I was paying for one ... I occasionally get worthless tweets from folks about quick-and-dirty ways to build my traffic. Most of them are pure crap, by the way, but while some are harmless crap, others are more nefarious. I came across one -- GET 1000's OF FOLLOWERS, with a link. OK. I could smell the crap all the way from here, but I thought I'd take a look at it to, well, see what was going on. Research purposes, you understand ... I clicked on the link ...

Check it out.

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