The badly spelt tweet was a sure giveaway but any how I clicked on the tweet with it's too good to be true offer. An iPad, for free, why certainly I'll sign into this survey using my Twitter account. Bad move.

After entering my details into this survey, all my followers were bombarded with the rogue tweet. And if they too were foolish enough to enter their twitter details they too would pass on the message to their followers. Luckily I have only around 40 odd followers soo not too many people were affected.

I don't quite understand how the scam worked. I think maybe it might be aiming to gather sensitive information. I don't know but I immediately changed my password and tweeted a shame-faced tweet to my followers admitting to be a naive idiot.

But it raised an interesting point about how we put ourselves in jeopady of being defrauded by putting our implicit trust in services like Twitter. The message being be vigilant on Twitter even if are messaged by a friend and never let a site log you via your Twitter account unless you are completely certain it is legitimate