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StalkTrak App gets Naked, Famous.

12
Jan
2012

“No way” indeed.

The Naked and Famous were displaying the following Tweet on their feed earlier:

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Visiting hampaw(dot)ru takes the end-user to tivvitter(dot)com/twitter_stalk-trak_app_user, where they are presented with an application install page for something called “StalkTrak”:

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The end-user can only progress to the next page if they enter both a username and a password – continuing past this screen will result in links to “StalkTrak” being sent to their followers.

Stalking apps are an old and tired scam dating back to the Myspace days, but unfortunately we continue to fall for them. Please steer clear of the above URL, and think twice before allowing any applications involving “Stalking” to access your Twitter account. You can always clean up your Twitter account here by revoking access to unwanted applications.

Christopher Boyd (Thanks to Jovi Umawing for assistance)

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