Twitter Wildfire Spread On The Jannawalitax Scam Like A Pack Of Wolves

Posted by JustinSMV in January 3rd, 2009

About 6pm EST the Twitter world has witnessed a massive DM response saying “hey! Check out this funny blog about you? http:/ / j an nawa litax. blogspot. com ” (Don’t click ont that link)

The link turned out to be a Re-Direct Phishing Scam to a Fake Twitter Log In Screen. The idea behind this scam is of course tricking users thinking that they somehow logged off of Twitter and will need to re-enter their username and password.

Phishing in the cyberworld is a play-on-words for Fishing which shows scammers in the act of Fishing action to trick people into getting their Passwords.

Don’t Mess With The TwittPack

Twitter is a very tight community that if provoked can turn on you like a rabid wild wolf pack feeding off a hungry frenzy. We all witnessed the Motrin Mom case where the Twitter world backlashed the Motrin PR people and ultimately started an uproar in the cyber world.

Now another case arises from this and this time the Tight Twitter community has turned on Scammers. Below is an excerpt of just some conversations going on. At the time of writing this article the Twitter Search trends has reached over thousands of Tweets just in a 30 minute span.

The Twitter spammer apparently comes from china (via PhishTank.com):

Organization : zhang xiaohu
Name : zhang xiaohu
Address : changningzhonghuainanlu192hao
City : changning
Province/State : Hunan
Country : CN
Postal Code : 421500

The Twitter spammer will sadly feel the wrath of backlash in the Twitter World and will be another guinea pig made into example in not to mess with the Twitter Wolf Pack.

The wildfire has spreaded from the Twitter Staff to Google’s own poster child Matt Cutt. The scammer who might of gotten away with this kind of thing if they kept this on the down low and really didn’t mass affect everyone but the scammer purley deserves this because you got to be insane to think that the Twitter community will not spread news faster than Superman.

Now the scammer will more than likely be shut down, banned, pressed charges and be black balled in the cyberworld forever.

Within a half hour the Twitter Staff has uploaded a Static Banner across all the Twitter Home Screens

Power of the wolfpack!

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DarthKnitter (DarthKnitter)

Said in January 3rd, 2009 @7:25 pm

@bryan_white Here’s a link to more information: http://tinyurl.com/86rvau

JustinSMV (JustinSMV)

Said in January 3rd, 2009 @7:27 pm

@ResourcefulMom because of the phishing scam right now http://bit.ly/1747Q

piratealice

Said in January 4th, 2009 @1:09 am

I got the DM at about 6:30pm today 1/3/09. The Blogspot page has already been taken down. Way to go Blogger and Twitter!

WhiteHouseChef (WhiteHouseChef)

Said in January 4th, 2009 @7:29 am

Twitter Phishing Alert!! Don’t click jannawilatax.blogspot.com. Read article hear:: http://bit.ly/1747Q

Ryan @ Linkbuildr

Said in January 4th, 2009 @1:07 pm

@Ben Waugh …lol! Not the way to go about it sir.

Ryan @ Linkbuildr’s last blog post..Calculating TrustRank With Link Voodoo

g1smd

Said in January 4th, 2009 @3:16 pm

There have been several more attempts since then, with other blogspot names being registered. They have been closed down even quicker than the first one.

The best thing to do with phishing sites is to enter some junk username and random letters in their form and fill their database up with junk that will not work when they try it.

That will allow the service provider to easily identify the real miscreants when they keep trying out all the fake names that they ‘collected’ through their form.