Twitter spam message alert! This new malware targets Twitter users on Twitter accounts. Do not click on links if you get this message on your Twitter account.

NationalTurk warns its readers. Latest Twitter spam says ‘ You seen what this person is saying about you? -link-Terrible things.. is a virus attepting to hack your Twitter account.

Twitter Spam Alert – You seen what this person is saying about you? Terrible things..

‘You seen what this person is saying about you?-link- terrible things..’ is a spam message on Twitter. We urge our readers to be careful, since the Twitter DM spam is doing the rounds again and many people are falling for it! If you are unfortunate enough to click one these links, you need to do immediately:

1 – Send a public tweet apologising – its highly likely that your followers have now received a spam DM and potentially clicked it. Not a great impression!
2 – Change your password
3 – Visit twitter.com and go to settings > applications and revoke access to anything that looks dodgy

This is the latest round of spam message to hit Twitter and it works as described below

Oprah fell victim to Twitter spam message too

The insidious new Twitter virus targets this sore spot in people’s psyches.  Oprah Winfrey was shuttling around her kitchen, very tired and distracted, and she saw a tweet light up on her iPad which was charging at a nearby outlet. She had literally just been wondering whether anyone ever read her blog posts and what they thought of them. So she peered at the iPad and saw the message: “Seen what this person is saying about you? Terrible things.” With a link.

What am I, a space alien new to this whole Internet thing? she ponders to herself. Obviously this is spammy, hackery, virus crap. How can I explain? she asks! But the temptation was just too great to overcome And also, she would like to add in my defense that she was really tired and out of it and not thinking at all. Also, covered in macaroni bits. Shedid it. She clicked the latest Twitter spam message.

Here is my public service announcement: don’t click on links in tweets that seem suspect. (OBVIOUSLY.) If someone direct messages you something like this and you’re wondering what the deal is, message them back to check. And if you click on a link and it asks you to enter your log in and password, don’t do it!

Okay, you’re welcome.

Here is what Oprah experienced after clicking the link in You seen what this person is saying about you?..Terrible things.

Now, this annoying virus sent the same message to maybe a third of my Twitter followers. What killed me was that almost immediately I got the same message back about 10 times, which means that each of these totally media-savvy women (they were all women) had fallen for the tricky tweet. I sent messages to my tweeps (what, that’s what they’re called, right?) warning them to stay away from the link, and several wrote back things like, “Oh no, I just clicked (too sensitive),” or, “Thank god! I haven’t gotten any bad reviews for my business yet and was wondering…” or, “I was seconds away from clicking!”

It strikes me as half-hilarious and half-tragic that so many of us were so shaken by this silly little message. Of course whoever designed the virus knows this, and must know that such a comment, suspect bad grammar and all, is going to induce a lot of self-conscious people to click.

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