In the last few days my inbox has been flooded with emails telling me my Twitter account password has been changed. The email includes the new password and possibly an attachment. Twitter does not send out passwords in this manner. The email tries to get you to change the password to one that the spammers know. Once they have control of your account, they can do what they want with it.

The spammy email titles include the word ‘Twitter’ with a set of numbers. The content features…

Attention! We detected that someone was trying to steal your Twitter account password.

We strongly recomended you to download our secure module to protect account!

Please click on the link below:

I am not going to give the link itself, several of the email I have received include a zip file attachment, no doubt a virus. Some also contain ‘links to Twitter’ which in fact go to a completely different site. Another attempt to capture your account details.

If in any doubt, delete! Don’t let the spammers win!