More than 3,000 users visited the fraudulent page this week
Crooks setting up a bogus verification page for Twitter accounts received over 17,000 visits in June, showing that users are easily duped with the promise of the verification checkmark from the service.
Evil doers created the page to harvest credentials for email accounts and payment card data, all information being asked for the purpose of completing the identity verification and obtaining the blue badge.
A small fee for the blue badge
According to Malwarebytes, additional details are required, such as answering why the victim believes they should be verified, the number of times their account was suspended and the amount of followers.
