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It’s easy to fall victim to a phishing scam when you aren’t paying attention. Always double check the URL your browser is sitting at before you enter any information.

This weekend, Twitter admitted that it is the most recent target of a phishing scam, and warned users to be wary of messages that redirect them to a look-alike sites and ask them to login using their username and password. Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone wrote on the company’s blog: “We’ve identified a phishing scam directed at Twitter users and we don’t want you to get tricked into giving your password to a scammer.” The scams being sent out by email look like email notifications you might receive when you get a direct message, and say something like: “hey! check out this funny blog about you…” or “Hey, i found a website with your pic on it… LOL check it out here.” The link provided redirects to a site that looks like Twitter’s front page, but has a slightly different URL.

Apparently the people I follow on Twitter are smarter than the average bear because I only received one phishing message.