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Occupy Wall Street’s Twitter account occupied by spammers

Or maybe the Occupy movement suddenly cares about credit scores. 

 

Kris Holt

Tech

Posted on May 3, 2012   Updated on Jun 2, 2021, 5:39 pm CDT

Spammers staged a sit-in on Occupy Wall Street’s Twitter account Thursday morning, yelling at passers-by to check their credit scores.

The official Twitter account of the OWS movement was infiltrated by a spammer urging early-bird followers to check their credit. Though the tweets have since been deleted from the account, BetaBeat noted that they were posted within a short period of time early Thursday.

“Millions shocked at how bad their credit scores are. See it Instantly @profinity” and “A Good Credit Score is 693 & Above See Your Credit Instantly Now !!Check at http://bit.ly/K3uzg8” were among the few spam tweets.

A number of tweeters pointed out that the account had been hacked, with one suggesting that it had fallen victim to a scam virus spreading on Facebook.

At 4:06 am Eastern Time, OWS tweeted that it was working on shutting the hackers down.

Despite a few retweets, the spam campaign doesn’t appear to have made a lot of impact:The @profinity account tagged in one of the spam tweets has just one follower.

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*First Published: May 3, 2012, 2:29 pm CDT