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Skriven 2011-11-02 06:47:10 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
  Kommentar till text 22702 av August Abolins (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Facebook bug exposed..
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August Abolins wrote to Janis Kracht on Tuesday November 01 2011 at 19:54:

AA> I still hear people responding to fake Facebook Security messages (but
AA> of course they don't realize they're fake) that claim that their FB
AA> account will be closed in 24 hours unless they forward their username
AA> and password in reply to the original message.

Amazing that people still react to such things. I've received similar messages
that claimed to be from all sorts of banks, asking me to "confirm" my account
details - in most cases, I didn't even have an account with the bank ;-)

Same thing from "Paypal", where I also don't have an account.

Such things are so common, I wonder that anyone would not see through them in
this day and age.

I recently even had a case where I received an invoice from an Internet shop
where I had bought something last year (but nothing since). I contacted the
shop, and it turned out that someone had hacked the website and stolen names
and email addresses of customers, and was sending them such messages. The
purpose was apparently to direct the victim to an email site where malware
would be installed on his computer.

AA> And then the same people wonder why their credit cards (which are
AA> registered on FB for games) are compromised with unknown charges.

AA> Duh!

Indeed.

But there are amusing cases... the messages I get from the Nigerians are
somnetimes hilarious, and this morning I even got one in French ;-) All the
usual stuff, offering me a few million dollars... I generally read them for
fun, and then delete them. I've read that some people pretend to go along with
the game and try to get money from the Nigerians by conning them - but that can
get dangerous. Never tried that game myself.

Cheers, Bob

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