Attention: Phishing attack on Facebook!
- added March 27, 2008
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“Hey, I got a new Facebook account. I’m going to delete this one, so add my new profile,” take a second, third, and maybe a fourth look at the page that follows such a message on Facebook else you run the risk of getting scammed!
If some hapless user already got fooled by this one, they would’ve been led to a URL on view-facebookprofiles.com, a domain registered (and whois-protected) on Namecheap and hosted at Softlayer that looks identical to the Facebook login. And if they’ve also entered their user details, all their contacts would have ended up getting similar messages — the scam spreading like a virus. This isn’t the first attack on Facebook; but it’s the most coordinated one yet. Another attack earlier this year (which was reported as the first attack on Facebook) had users receiving a message: “lol I can’t believe these pics got posted… its going to be BADDDD when her boyfriend sees these- http://www.facebook.com.profile.php.id.371233.cn”. Obviously, users got so carried away with the message that they didn’t stop to see the fake-looking last part of the URL.
Facebook has been a soft target for many ‘Phishing’ attacks (cases where identical-looking fake pages got loaded to extract user names and passwords). The perpetrators of such scams have often used user information to spread the scam to accounts linked to the hacked accounts or simply spread nauseous content. Recently, some hackers used Phishing attacks to spread pictures of children being tortured on the Funwall of users’ Facebook profiles.
If some hapless user already got fooled by this one, they would’ve been led to a URL on view-facebookprofiles.com, a domain registered (and whois-protected) on Namecheap and hosted at Softlayer that looks identical to the Facebook login. And if they’ve also entered their user details, all their contacts would have ended up getting similar messages — the scam spreading like a virus. This isn’t the first attack on Facebook; but it’s the most coordinated one yet. Another attack earlier this year (which was reported as the first attack on Facebook) had users receiving a message: “lol I can’t believe these pics got posted… its going to be BADDDD when her boyfriend sees these- http://www.facebook.com.profile.php.id.371233.cn”. Obviously, users got so carried away with the message that they didn’t stop to see the fake-looking last part of the URL.
Facebook has been a soft target for many ‘Phishing’ attacks (cases where identical-looking fake pages got loaded to extract user names and passwords). The perpetrators of such scams have often used user information to spread the scam to accounts linked to the hacked accounts or simply spread nauseous content. Recently, some hackers used Phishing attacks to spread pictures of children being tortured on the Funwall of users’ Facebook profiles.
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NEVER trust ANYTHING on the internet so much. ESPECIALLY silly ways of communicateing like this and MySpace. I find I get more strangers randomly popping up ANYWHERE after me, with a Yahoo email. stay clear of Yahoo inparticular.
Check out this site if you think somehting may be wrong, search or/and report it...but...ALSO on the internet....
WHO CAN you trust dang it!?
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