NHS Direct Twitter account compromised by Acai Berry diet spammers
NHS Direct, the UK helpline which provides expert health advice via the telephone and internet, has had its Twitter account taken over by spammers promoting an Acai Berry diet.
Because the NHS Direct service is well-known in the UK for providing health advice, it's possible that some followers might have thought that the link was genuine, and clicked on it.
Fortunately, Twitter is now identifying the webpage pointed to by the shortened link as "potentially harmful", but anyone who had clicked would have been taken to a bogus news website promoting an Acai Berry diet:
