Just a few days ago we reported on a currently rampant scam on Facebook: Fraudsters marked company pages on several sites with the name “Social Network Registry Corporation” and claimed, for example, that these sites had violated copyright or were “re-verifying” themselves for other reasons. would have to.
But the link provided in the posts leads to a phishing trap!
We were marked
But not only us, but many company pages on Facebook may have received the same notification:

Many other companies were also tagged in a Facebook post:

Incidentally, these markings are not immediately visible in the post, but only when you click on “Read more”. What is visible, however, is the false claim made by the “ Page Protection Identity ” page:

The text of the posts always reads:
“Your page has been reported by someone else, please re-verify your account immediately. We do this to protect you and prevent others from using your account without your permission. We need to verify your account. Follow these steps to To confirm your identity.”
Nice detail in the screenshot above: 5 star reviews and the name “restaurant”… and for good reason, as the site actually previously belonged to a restaurant that fell for a phishing scam! We scrolled far down and discovered old posts from the restaurant:

But the information on the site also shows that the name was recently changed:

What happens when you click on the link
But if you don't look closely, “Identity of the page protection” seems serious, especially to laypeople. Many companies will initially be intimidated by the warning and want to “verify” themselves as quickly as possible - but that is exactly where the trap lies!
Because you first land on a page that visually only pretends to come from Meta, but the URL shows that you are on a different page:

After clicking on “Continue” we should log in with the Facebook user data… which we of course enter very seriously *giggle*:

After entering our user data twice (once it is pretended that the data was incorrect) and entering the date of birth, we are redirected to the real Facebook page.
The phishing scammers now have the Facebook account login details and can use it for further scams!
Conclusion
If you run a company page on Facebook yourself and have entered your data into such a form, please change your password quickly if this is still possible! Otherwise, only Facebook support will be able to help you get back to your site... and unfortunately that can sometimes take a long time.
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