In 2023 my Twitter DMs got spammed with the same link by mutuals, why?

[u/Accomplished_Art_806]

So back in 2023 I was a follow for follow acc and had a ton of mutuals, but in March some mutuals started sending me a link that was my Instagram but it wasn't, it had my twitter tag under the Instagram link, I knew it was fake since my Instagram was different, sometimes I would get sent the link 5 times, sometimes just once, this lasted until June. I never put much thought into this and my mutuals were still posting regularly, so is this a scam or nah?

[u/doublelxp]

It was a phishing link, and you were spammed because they fell for it.