Security News > 2022 > November > Twitter Blue Badge email scams – Don’t fall for them!

It's only a week since Elon Musk's take-private of Twitter on 28 October 2022.

There's been plenty to set the fur flying, starting with Musk's curious choice of metaphor in arriving at Twitter HQ on takeover day with a kitchen sink, as though the company's products and services were already so close to complete that they needed nothing more than the aforementioned dishwashing receptacle to finish things off.

Then there was the peremptory, if not-at-all unexpected, dismissal of the top tier of management; a pair of pranksters carrying cardboard boxes who tricked journalists into reporting they'd just been sacked and escorted offsite; staff who had been sacked apparently finding out when their access codes abruptly stopped working; and Twitter's apparent rush to switch its well-known Blue Badge into a subscription service, not simply a verification system.

Once you're Verified, at least under today's rules, you can't voluntarily cast off your blue badge yourself, though you can have it pulled by Twitter "At any time without notice."

As you can therefore imagine, or as you've probably seen for yourself, Twitter's current intention to make the blue badge into a pay-to-play service has stirred up plenty of fear, uncertainty and doubt, and where FUD goes.

The crooks in this scam suggested that you could simply "Reverify" in order to retain your existing blue badge and thus avoid future charges, and helpfully provided a login button so you could do just that.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2022/11/04/twitter-blue-badge-email-scams-dont-fall-for-them/