Thursday, January 24, 2013

Email Scam: Fake Facebook Support Email

Here is an email I just got and it is pretending to be an official email from Facebook Support, which one might want to pay attention to. That is what the scammer is counting on. They are hoping that at least some percentage of the people receiving this email are not paying close attention and think it is really from Facebook Support when it is not.

All the links in the email look like they go to Facebook (or they are a linked button or linked word) but the actual destination of the link is: http://maxmax.webnow.biz/transferring.html?fb=katiemoe (DO NOT CLICK ON THIS LINK!!!!) but notice how they were able to insert a variable at the end of the string which identifies which Facebook account they are trying to attack. This is bad. If I click on this link, they will know who clicked on it, even if I don't provide them any further information. Worse than that, I may get some nasty spyware software downloaded to my computer. So, DO NOT CLICK ON ANY OF THESE LINKS!!!

From:    Facebook Support [surojitroy321@server55.neubox.net]
Sent:    Thu 1/24/13 6:27 PM
Subject: Facebook Support

facebook
Facebook Support sent you a notification.

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This message was sent to xxxx@xxxxx. If you don't want to receive these emails from Facebook in the future, please click: unsubscribe.
Facebook, Inc. Attention: Department 415 P.O Box 10005 Palo Alto CA 94303

2 comments:

  1. face book user are scamming people out of money with the green dot money pak card saying that they work for the center and for you to put 200 to 500 on a green dot card and give then the recp info and the amount the the 14 dig no. and they take your and run they say they can trun 200 in to 2000 and 500 in to 5000 it all a scam many fb user are turning to social media web site to run scam fb does nothing about it at all you cant call then you cant email them there is just no support at all with fb so only thing u can do is fie a law suit.....

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  2. Yes, I've written about scams using the green dot money pak card before and it seems to be more frequent than ever.

    Social media websites like facebook and twitter only make it easier for scammers to reach more people.

    Do not part with your money easily or before THOROUGHLY checking out who is asking you for money. And always google stuff to see if other people are already trying to warn others about these scams, like we do. Every person saved from being scammed is worth it.

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