Open chat / Yet Another Facebook Scam / pharren 15 years ago

Yet Another Facebook Scam

My mother fell for a Facebook phishing thing that contained a new element I've never seen before. It was an email (which actually came from "facebookmail.com", but she didn't know how to check that part) saying blah blah we think your account has been compromised, please change your password, and had a link to do so, but the link was an actual facebook.com link.

If you didn't check out the email headers, you could easily fall for this one. I have no idea specifically how they did it, but it was some facebook.com/somethingorother.php? with a long-ass string of nonsense, which ostensibly takes you to some other domain while still keeping the facebook.com address in your browser's address bar. I guess the moral of this story is "Don't Click Links"; instead use your bookmark or whatever to get to Facebook and then change your password from there.

ROzbeans 15 years ago
I've been getting a bajillion emails from Blizzard. I just delete them. I don't care if they're real emails telling me to stop cussing out fucktards in game, if they need to get a hold of me, they'll shut my account down and force me to call.
Kelefane 15 years ago
I get hella Blizzard emails also and just delete them.
Laschae 15 years ago
Oh I get them at my old email I used to use for my WoW acct but nothing since I reformatted and changed email addresses. I just ignore them now.
Vex 15 years ago
The other day I about FLIPPED OUT. I thought i had fallen for a scam =X Damn cityville. They emailed my -other- facebook account "Collect 10 city cash!" i was like hell yeah! so i click it, it opens up facebook, I CHECK THE URL like a good girl, and I log in.... except no city cash. I instantly think FKFKFKFKFKFK I panic for like 15 minutes, change my password ( muwahah my facebookpassword Is unique lol ) and then sit there and look over the email, trying to find the dead giveaway that I had missed.... and then i read the fine print, the one with the "this email was sent to *your other facebook account* .." and i was like oh... oh? and I log into that.. and yes, I got 10 free cityville cash. And I wasn't hacked.


But still - good advice - awhile back there was a spoof MTV page claiming eminem died in a car crash, had pics and everything, it WAS MTV as far as any regular person could tell, until you looked at the url, and buried int he long ass string was like http://[email protected]/hahah
Most modern browsers spot that now and put up a fat phishing alert scam sign.