Just a quickie to advise anyone tweeting to be wary of what could be a phishing scam perpetrated by the same mob responsible for a recent Facebook equivalent.

The direct message I received this morning from a follower called "chipwiginton" simply read "check this out http://videos.twitter.shjjiwe.com/?abqqldlyr" which goes to a page that throws an error.

Notice shjjiwe.com in the domain. If you hit that domain you'll see something that looks just like the Twitter sign-in page (although the extra closing character in the mark-up rendered on the page immediately raises alarm bells). Obviously I don't need to tell you not to enter your details there.

When this scam , apparently affected accounts would be set to automatically spam your friends walls. I suspect the Twitter variant would do something similar, but searching Google this morning for more information only revealed nearly no information on this Twitter scam, but some results for the Facebook version.

A quick whois check reveals the domain to belong to someone in China, although that information might be inaccurate.

If your using Firefox you should now see the "Reported Web Forgery" warning, although that didn't appear about 30 minutes ago when I first hit the site.

Anyhoo, take caution, spread the word just in case.