Fri 22 May 2009
Facebook phishing scam
Posted by Brian Busche under Uncategorized
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I received a suspicious email today which appeared to come from a Facebook friend. It had a link to a web site and when I clicked it, I was presented with a Facebook login. Now I know better than to enter my login credentials…but I got sidetracked on a phone call, and absent mindedly logged-in when I got back to the computer. The login appeared to fail, but thats when it immediately dawned on me….I just got phished!
Knowing that they probably mined the friends list in order to create new emails, I started looking for a way to alert my friends. This is after I changed my Facebook password of course. But changing the password may have been too late, especially if they had pulled the names and emails at the moment that I tried to login.
Facebook doesn’t appear to have a simple way to send a message to all your friends via email. This is probably a good thing. I would hate to get spam from me friends every day…I will visit Facebook if I want to know what they are up to. But considering that lots of people were soon to receive a spoof email that claimed to be from me, I figured I would error on the side of caution. I created an “event” in Facebook, which allows you to send invites. I tried to make the event so that it would be clearly informational, and not some huge kegger at my house or something. I reluctantly sent the invites to everyone I had ever friended…knowing that this would seem retarded to many of them. But hopefully I saved somebody some grief and aggrevation.




