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People still fall for this Twitter DM spam?

Sunday 08 July 2012 Internet

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Yay, got some more spam DMs from cracked Twitter accounts this afternoon!

Hi this user is making really bad rumors about you [dodgy link redacted]

And one I haven't seen for a while.

lol…omg i am laughing so hard at this pic of me my friend uploaded [dodgy link redacted]

On the one hand I find it hard to believe anyone still falls for this stuff, but I guess they are if the spammers can still justify sending them out.


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