Monday, January 5, 2009

Inevitable

OK. It's finally happened. I mean I knew it was going to, but was really hoping it wouldn't--a fake Twitter. This is a phishing scam directly aimed at the users of the popular social media site.
Twitter Scam

There is a lesson learned here. Keeping up with what is going on with your site or organization is necessary. Imagine if something like this went unnoticed and your patrons and volunteers were fooled by it. Not only would that be bad for the individuals that got duped it would be bad for the cause. It's harder to fix something like that than to prevent it.

So the after school special lesson is:
KEEP ALERT! KEEP INFORMED! KEEP IT UP!

I threw the last one in there for moral support. Hey...let's face it. If you're involved with a non-profit it's difficult enough getting donations and keeping afloat. You don't need anything making it harder.