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If the button says ‘dont click’.. dont

February 13th, 2009

yesterday I saw a few tweets in my friends timeline which asked twitters users not to click. The tweet also had a link. Even though I saw the same tweets from few of my friends I dint click it (May be first time I did something right ) .

Ajaxian wrote a post about about the tweets today and it seems that it was a clickjacking spam.

The page behind the tinyurl has a button that tells people not to click it – which of course they do. When they click the button they send the tweet telling other gullible people not to click the button – which of course those people do.

You can read more here.