If you have a social media account, you’ve may have already run into some kind of online scam. Whether it’s a company offering cheap products that don’t really exist, or a suspicious direct message from an unfamiliar account.
In recent months, some verified Twitter users appear to have been targeted.
Metro.co.uk has seen messages like these as recently as Wednesday, when an account called ‘The Notification Options’ sent an employee a suspicious DM suggesting their account was at risk of losing its ‘blue tick.’
The account behind the message is suspicious for a number of reasons, including the fact it was created this month, has never tweeted, and features a background photo that resembles those on legitimate Twitter accounts.
In a DM sent Wednesday, it told the Metro.co.uk staffer to click on a link to a form he could use to appeal the alleged ‘blue tick’ decision.
Concerned this might be a scam, he didn’t click on the link, so we can’t verify exactly where it would have lead.
But similar suspicious messages have been exposed as phishing attempts, whereby a scammer tries to get hold of personal information like credit card details or passwords.
Metro.co.uk has reported the account to Twitter.
