If you get an e-mail saying that Facebook Company reset your password and urging you to open an attachment, it’s a scam. Beware!
McAfee warned people to beware of an e-mail that appears to come from Facebook influencing recipients to open an attachment to obtain their new password.
The attachment targets the Windows computer to steal the password and which can potentially access any username and password combination used on the computer, not alone the login details for Facebook.
McAfee says, “This threat is potentially very dangerous considering that there are over 350 million Facebook users who could fall for this scam, this is also the sixth most prevalent piece of malware targeting consumers in the last 24 hours, as tracked by McAfee Labs.”
For one, Facebook doesn’t mail like this. It may send an e-mail with a link where the user can reset the password, but not an e-mail with an attachment.
So, it’s clear that this is a phishing scam.
It has recently found that online social networking sites Facebook and Twitter are now using to deal with another scam! As the site grows in number and its benefits of just about anyone can have account, it seems that many are surrounding the privacy issues.
According to Stan Schroeder at Mashable, the latest scam that users may receive message on their accounts as offering a free iPad? For those who may have already fallen victim to this, it means that the possibility of your friends’ account might have already hacked into.
Facebook users should be aware with the messages similar to this, “u has to check out this website its glitchin right now and sending out iPad’s to everyone for free!”
For Twitter, pre-warn message have posted to the users saying that, “If you’ve received a message promising you a new iPad, not only is there no iPad, but also your friends have been hacked and also sending out password resets to those individuals”.
Are you fallen victim to this scam, or a similar one? Give us your comments below.
According to the latest spam report from Kaspersky Lab, spam accounted for an average of 84.4% of the total volume of email traffic. One of the most significant events in the last quarter was an unprecedentedly large mass mailing that used HTML-based threats in the form of emails disguised as legitimate notifications from social networks.
An email was distributed that was made to look like a notification from social networks, email providers and popular websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Amazon, Windows Live, YouTube, Skype, and Wikipedia. These emails were very reminiscent of phishing attempts. However, if a user clicks on the link, they would be taken to a hacked site, from where a malicious script would then be downloaded.
These are the most frequent ways to harvest your EMAIL:
1. Scammers regularly scan USENET to get the email addresses. Some machines will search only the article body where signature starts and mainly it will target where the @ symbol presents.
2. Scammers can take your mail address from mail list. They may request mailing lists server to send the mailing list to promote or to advertise his business then they will send spam messages repeatedly to get the attention from the user.
3. They can also harvest from the web pages. They may have some coding or software which is specialized to follow or to find the mail addresses from the web page. Generally they will target the words “Mail to”, “@” in the web page to fetch your mail address.
4. Some scammers can harvest the mail address by using the paper forms or from the guestbook. Because some organizations may get the details of the client and the customers via forms. So if the scammer found the paper forms they can easily get a plenty of email addresses.
5. They can also get from the chat rooms and from any social network which is used to be a mediator between various people.
6. They can also get the mail address through yellow pages and by guessing too. After guessing immediately they will be sending text messages to those mail addresses.
7. They can also get by hacking into sites.
Various Spam Laws are there to penalize these types of scammers but then too the no. of scammers are getting increased.
Now a days SMS cost very less, so many of the advertisers are using this to promote their business strategy. Most of the mobile users can get various junk messes from Builders, insurance and loan related companies, and many manufacturers.
According to these business people sending repeated SMS may make people to listen to it at least once. But in the people view it’s a big headache and those repeated messages are making them to get irritate.
In the latest survey the daily junk SMS count across the country reaches 100 million and according to the TRAI the number of wireless subscribers in India is increasing in a rapid rate. The business giants are spending less money to spread their business but most of the people are considering those messages as SPAM. Whatever the result may be, these type of Spam messages have no end.
