Video: Twitter spammer caught on camera

I’ve written before about how I have caught sexy spammers stalking me on Twitter.

This evening, I suspected something similar was happening when I stumbled across the details of one of the latest people to follow me. At the time of writing, Sara4877 has only ever made one post on Twitter but she is already following over 100 people.

Somewhat surprisingly, as you’ll see in the video I made, she only seems to follow people with the word “Graham” or “Honda” in their name.

It shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to work out what is going on here. “Sara”, or at least the people who created her account, are trying to scoop up Twitter names in…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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