after further research, I think the email was really from Twitter after
all, and that Edward's twitter account has been hacked:

http://i.imgur.com/nTUqEJn.png


On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Matt Wilkie <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> I just received a well designed but fake email purporting to be from
> twitter.com on behalf of @edreamleo (Edward).
>
> The bit.ly link therein led to a maze of whack-a-mole popup windows
> offering me wonderful cure all drugs and other snake oils proffered by
> sumptuous buxom blondes. On attempting to close each browser tab/window
> there was an operating system-like dialog asking me if I was sure I wanted
> to exit the page, sometimes followed and/or preceded by other
> obviously-from-the-bad-site modal dialog windows. It didn't matter which
> button was pressed in the dialogs, a new window/tab would open afterwards.
>
> I eventually escaped the deluge by slapping [esc] on each dialog, quickly
> followed by [ctrl-w] (close window). I followed this up with
> [ctrl-shift-del] to clear all cache, cookies, login sessions, etc. for the
> previous hour ((Firefox. Chrome, IE would likely need different key
> strokes)).
>
> Just figured I should put the word in case some else get's a similar lure
> dangled in front of them.
>
> -matt
>
>

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