Facebook Email Scam
With the recent announcement of facebook adding @facebook.com email to user's accounts, the scammers have started to target users.
Security experts are warning of a new Facebook 'phishing' scam designed to steal your facebook log-in credentials. The facebook phishing scam promises you a '@facebook.com' email address. but is actually a trap to gather log-ins and passwords for the malicious site.
"The first sign of phishing is to get your @facebook.com email address before someone else takes it.
"Then, a bit.ly link redirects you to a Facebook App which contains an iFrame that points to a compromised site that is hosting the phishing page.
"Once you click 'Next', your information is sent to the phishers and your account is hijacked immediately. Then, your facebook status is updated to try to scam friends/family."
With the recent announcement of facebook adding @facebook.com email to user's accounts, the scammers have started to target users.
Security experts are warning of a new Facebook 'phishing' scam designed to steal your facebook log-in credentials. The facebook phishing scam promises you a '@facebook.com' email address. but is actually a trap to gather log-ins and passwords for the malicious site.
"The first sign of phishing is to get your @facebook.com email address before someone else takes it.
"Then, a bit.ly link redirects you to a Facebook App which contains an iFrame that points to a compromised site that is hosting the phishing page.
"Once you click 'Next', your information is sent to the phishers and your account is hijacked immediately. Then, your facebook status is updated to try to scam friends/family."
Prevent this, and other attacks, is to revisit Facebook's settings page and select the option that 'informs users when an attempt to access their account has been made on another computer'