What does the word phishing actually mean?
Phishing refers to attempts to obtain an Internet user's data via fake World Wide Web pages, e-mail or short messages and thus commit identity theft. The aim of the fraud is, for example, to use the data received to plunder accounts and harm the relevant people.
Once again, internet fraudsters to get access to Facebook users' data . As always in such cases, these are sent via a message.
The message looks like this: (We deliberately obscured the reference/link so that someone doesn't accidentally click)
Dear Facebook user,
We get many reports for this fan page, and we have reviewed the suspension of your page.
After reviewing your page activity, it was determined that you were in violation of our Terms of Service.
We have provided a warning to you via email, but you have not responded to our notification.
Therefore, your account might be permanently suspended.
If you think this is a mistake, please verify your account on the link below.
This would indicate that your Page does not have a violation on our Terms of Service. We will immediately review your account activity, and we will notify you again via email. Verify your account at the link below:
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https://apps.facebook.com/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX============================
Thanks for being part of Facebook Community,
Facebook Verification Team.
This message states that Facebook has allegedly audited the SITE and found violations of the Terms of Service. You should now check your account (using the link mentioned in the message)
Screenshot November 26, 2013 (Thanks Sabrina for sending it)
DANGER!
1) This message is NOT from Facebook!
2) If you click on the link, it leads to an APP. An externally hosted page is displayed here
If you were to fill out everything here, all the data entered would be sent 1:1 to the fraudsters!
In these cases, the sender profile pages usually look like this:
ZDDK INFO
Facebook never asks for the email address AND PASSWORD of a Facebook account. The only place where you have to enter this data is at LOGIN.
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