Malware Alert: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation!
Have you been receiving emails with this header lately?
Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Your Support.
If so, then be sure to DELETE it right away as its a password scam specifically attacking Facebook users.
I can’t even remember the first time “I” got this email but it immediately struck me as odd. You know why? ANYTHING that talks about “passwords” is already fishy right? And this email even ask you to download something… DOUBLE FISHY!
Here’s the content of this Facebook email scam so you get familiar with it.
Dear user of facebook,
Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients, your password has been changed.
You can find your new password in attached document.
Thanks,
Your Facebook.
If you click on the document attached to the SPAM email, you open the door of your Facebook account to hackers whose sole objective is to STEAL passwords from Facebook users’ profiles, giving them access to loads of private and personal stuff on you AND your Facebook friends.
When I first got this message, I just deleted it but I started to receive like 5-10 DAILY so I zapped it with an anti-virus program. It worked but now I am getting it again and it has a different “From:” information this time. If before it the email was from “Facebook Security”, now it’s from “Facebook Messages Center”. But yes, it’s still the same bad trick so do beware!
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