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Ganz offensichtlich haben einige Freaks nun entdeckt, dass man via Twitter selbst an die Passwörter der Nutzer kommen kann. Es wurden Phishing-Seiten erstellt, die der echten Twitter-Startseite verblüffend ähnlich sehen. Sie unterscheiden sich lediglich in der Adresszeile.

If you receive a direct message or a direct message email notification that redirects to what looks like Twitter.com-don't sign in. Look closely at the URL because it could be a scam.

"Want to be a millionaire in 6 months?"

But what you rapidly find is that you're taken by the scruff of the internet over to Twitter where you're, um, encouraged to authorise the game to access your Twitter feed. (It uses the OAuth system, which means that the people behind playmobsterworld don't get your username or password. The owners have chosen to hide their identities by using Domainsbyproxy, and haven't left an email address on their website, so we don't know who they are, and couldn't contact them.) Once you've done that, the "game" will then spew that invitation in the form of a direct message to everyone it can. (The people who receive it are the ones who follow you, and who you also follow. They're the only group you can direct message on Twitter.) And so those DMs turn up in peoples' feeds, and they click them.. and so on. You'd think that by now Mobster World would be played by everyone. Not so. Instead many people - the non-players - get annoyed by it.