As social networking either becomes the greatest boon for building a business online ever – or the biggest time waster depending how you use it, scammers are at work to take advantage of your desire to use the new medium. Facebook users beware.
Wired:Fraudsters Target Facebook With Phishing Scam
Some Facebook users checking their accounts Wednesday found odd postings of messages on their “wall” from one of their friends, saying: “lol i can’t believe these pics got posted…. it’s going to be BADDDD when her boyfriend sees these,” followed by what looks like a genuine Facebook link.
But the link leads to a fake Facebook login page hosted on a Chinese .cn domain. The fake page actually logs the victims into Facebook, but also keeps a copy of their user names and passwords.
Soon after, the hackers post messages containing the same URL on the public “walls” of the users’ friends. The technique is a powerful phishing scam, because the link seems to be coming from a trusted friend.
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