I got 4 email messages today saying that 4 people (whom i do not know) are following me on Twitter. Seems to me to be a possible twitter scam with a possibility that it might be a new worm.
These are my observations for now:
These are my observations for now:
- All four accounts belong extremely good looking girls
- All seem to be from Mumbai, India.
- All have the same Bio line which says "I am smart and simple girl, wanting to make some good friends"
- All have about 800 followers and are following about 400 people.
- All have almost the same tweets which are a combination of marketing website links and some mundane tweets albeit in different order.
- All accounts were created on Oct 6th.
- The tweets are posted using a combination of API and Web with lots of them being from the web.API alludes to a script doing the posting.
Questions i have:
- How did they get so many people to follow their accounts in such a short time? Seems to me like some bug is being exploited. Or maybe people really fell into the beauty trap?
If anyone is interested these are the four twitter accounts
- http://twitter.com/mariya_gonzales
- http://twitter.com/pari_choudhary
- http://twitter.com/mansi_joshi
- http://twitter.com/janhavi_agarwal
More updates as i debug this further!
