{"id":954,"date":"2012-02-18T07:14:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T07:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=954"},"modified":"2023-02-02T13:58:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T13:58:55","slug":"new-phishing-scam-target-facebook-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/awareness\/new-phishing-scam-target-facebook-user\/","title":{"rendered":"New phishing scam target Facebook user"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a new phishing scam<\/strong><\/a> targeting Facebook users, potentially giving the scammers<\/strong><\/a> access to all of a user’s usernames & passwords.<\/p>\n

It comes in the type of an electronic mail which appears to be from Facebook, telling users that their password has been reset. It invites them to open a part to get their new password. But the attachment contains a password stealer which could potentially contact every password used on that machine. (thedentalspa.com<\/a>) <\/p>\n

“This threat is potentially very dangerous thoughts about that there are over 400 million Facebook<\/strong><\/a> users who could fall for this scam,” says security firm McAfee.<\/p>\n

Sharp-eyed users might notice there is something wrong. “Facebook would seldom send an e mail alert a user that they changed his or her password”. In lieu, the company would direct the user to a password reset page by sending them a link.<\/p>\n

“Another clue that can signal a user has received a spam<\/strong><\/a> electronic mail is the use of poor grammar and awkward phrases such as… the greeting ‘Dear user of face book’,” says McAfee.
\nUsers are advised to storage bin the e-mail without opening the attachment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a new phishing scam targeting Facebook users, potentially giving the scammers access to all of a user’s usernames & passwords. It comes in the type of an electronic mail which appears to be from Facebook, telling users that their password has been reset. It invites them to open a part to get their new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}