I’ve heard others call this a scam:
[ad]Now Although I know PCworld has made everyone paranoid that this is a scam. I want to remind people that it was probably just a for fun. According to Graham Cluely’s blog, He points out why you shouldn’t tell people the important information.
I see no evidence this was done to gather your information but Pcworld has sent out the warnings and made people think this was a scam, or a Phishing attack. Although this could be used to get the information needed for your Gmail or other accounts.
I do recommend deleting those tweets and reminding people that you are the only ones that can prevent identity theft. Trend Micro talks about this very detail about the subject but again they don’t think this was conceived as a phishing attempt. I’ll let you decide but remember tweeting that it is a scam will only keep it on the trends, your best advice is just go on with your life and tell everyone to delete that sensitive information.
