An email that only appears to come from Facebook is aimed at users' accounts.

The email is titled “ You have been for copyright content” .
Now you might think that this was just a careless error, but if you look at the content of the email, which was not actually sent by Facebook, you quickly get the idea that the creator is not particularly fond of umlauts:

The alleged email from Facebook
The alleged email from Facebook

"Hi,

Recently there have been reports of copyright infringement on your Facebook posts. .

We would like to ask you to review the content of your posts to ensure that they comply with Facebook's Terms and Conditions.

If you believe that these reports have been submitted in error or that you are the copyright owner of the materials posted on the site, please report it using the following link:

https://www.facebook.com/copyright/XXXXXXX

If your page is not verified within 48 hours, we reserve the right to suspend the account without further notice.

Kind regards, “
The Facebook Team”

Now there are a number of things that indicate that the email is not genuine, for example the succinct salutation “Hi”, the change from “Sie” to “Du” in the email, umlauts like ä, ö and ü are not used, the ß in “GruBen” there is a Cyrillic letter, but two points raise suspicion:

  1. The sender appears to be the platform (but this can be faked)
  2. The link embedded in the email actually leads to Facebook

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Now it's getting bold

If you click on the link, you actually end up on Facebook!

The fake form
The fake form

The link takes us to a form on the real site, which explains again in English that you have been reported for “copyright content”. We should now enter our name, email address , telephone number and password .

Wait a moment!

Why is our password suddenly required?
After all, we are already logged in! Reason enough to take a closer look at the form.

We could see that the supposed form is not directly on Facebook, but rather a Facebook app is used to integrate the form.

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Where does the form come from?

To find out, we simply open the frame in which the form is located in a new tab.

The form is not on Facebook
The form is not on Facebook

Now the form opens in a new tab and you can see that it is by no means directly on the platform, but on an external site that wants to get the login data in this way.

Conclusion

Facebook does not emails about copyright infringement! With this brazen phishing method, which is not immediately obvious, fraudsters get your name , phone number and password in order to then be able to access your profile directly!

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