Facebook Phishing Mails

Like banks, Pay­pal, Twit­ter and oth­ers, Face­book is increas­ingly sub­ject to phish­ing scams. How to rec­og­nize Phish­ing and Fake Mails?

The first goal of the scam is to obtain your login cre­den­tials to your Face­book account. Here is the mail I have just received:

Face­book Phish­ing Mail

1. The sender email address looks suspicious.

2. The receiv­ing address is not an email address reg­is­tered with Face­book, in fact this address does not exist but comes through based on the catch-all func­tion of the mail box.

3. The Sub­ject line is not cap­i­tal­ized — suspicious.

4. if you pass your mouse over (don’t click!) the update but­ton or over the

5. … “click here” link, you see at the bot­tom of your frame the actual…

6. …tar­get address. The address is not a face­book address, but some scam sub-domain of a .co.uk domain.

Turn on phish­ing fil­ters in your sys­tem and secu­rity software.

Never click on any link in a sus­pi­cious mail! Block sender and delete the mail.

You may report the issue to Face­book pro­vid­ing full head­ers and even­tual source code of the mail.

If you fol­low the link in the mail, you are directed to a fake Face­book Login screen with your email address all­ready filled in. The pass­word field is blank. If you fill in the pass­word, the cyber crim­i­nals get full access to your face­book account.

But there is worse:

A pop-up appears invit­ing you to down­load an “update tool” which actu­ally installs “ZeuS bank­ing Tro­jan”. This Tro­jan waits to steal your bank­ing data next time you type them in.

Check out the Face­book secu­rity page for fur­ther info.

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Tags: Facebook, Facebook Phishing, Phishing Mails, Yorgo Nestoridis, Zeus Banking Trojan

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