Reports of Fake Twitter Emails 1 year ago

We’ve seen a number of reports from people receiving emails from “support@twitter.com” notifying them that they have unread/delayed/undelivered messages at Twitter. Twitter does not send any messages of this type; support@twitter.com does not send notifications in general.

While malware does not appear to be inherent in the email, the link is actually masked; rather than taking you to Twitter once you click on it, it actually takes you to a pharmaceutical site after routing you through a couple other websites (which may have malware). We’re actively pursuing measures to get these sites shut down; in the meantime, we recommend that you not click on the link and instead just delete any such emails you receive.

Update (May 1, 2010): Twitter engineers do not send emails to users. Please report any emails you receive from engineer@twitter.com as spam, then delete those messages; they are not originating from us and are part of an ongoing spam campaign. You can find out more information about this spam campaign here.