Well, it wasn’t that the actual social network itself became evil, it was just the messenger.
Earlier today I received an e-mail from a customer asking if I knew about a certain website. I was in meetings all morning, and only quickly scanned the mail, and believed the URL referred to one of the customer’s own sites. So, I wasn’t overly concerned. Fortunately, other members of the team were in the office when the calls came.
Turns out a phisher - of sorts – went to the trouble of registering a URL that was uncannily similar to one owned by our customer, made it redirect to one of the excellent services we operate on behalf of customers, and used Twitter to promote his or her own self-believed brilliance as a comedian by suggesting it was a URL run by our customer.
It’s turned up enough in Twitter searches today that I won’t glorify the URL here; suffice it to say that someone out there thinks they are terribly clever because they can register a domain on GoDaddy and write maybe 6 lines of PHP. Genius, that. Must think they are really smart.
Whoever you are, please get a life.
