Popular microblogging service Twitter appears to be undergoing a phishing attack.

Phishing is an attempt by scam artists to acquire personal information about you and your login to popular sites by mimicking official information of another site. In this particular case you will receive a direct message from one of your contacts on the service that says:

hey! check out this funny blog about you… http://jannawalitax.blogspot.com/

Luckily the website has not been blocked by Google as you can see from the image below that you now receive when you go there.

When the page was unblocked it did look exactly like the Twitter login page and asked you to submit your username and password that you could see this “funny blog about you.” The problem here is that these particular scammers undercut themselves with anyone that is the least bit web savvy by directing you to a blogspot.com blog and then asking you to login in to your Twitter account which has no connection whatsoever with blogspot.

According to Pete Cashmore at Mashable, part of the problem in this particular case arises from people who have their direct messages set to be delivered to them via email.  If you were to click on that link inside of a piece of mail, you might be more likely to go ahead and sign in with your user information.

As always, you need to be careful with any site you visit that then asks for your login information for a site.  Does the web address look correct?  How did you get there?  All questions you should be asking yourself before you give any site your information.

UPDATE: They have already changed their message. The new one is:

Hey, i found a website with your pic on it… LOL check it out here http://twitterblog.access-logins.com/login

UPDATE #2: They have changed their tactics again.

hey look at this funny blog http://rosalierebyb.blogspot.com/

UPDATE #3: You have to give them points for their persistence.

fixed it.. hehe here is that blog i wanted to show you http://twitterblogs.access-logins.com/login