It was only a matter of time, but facebook phishing scams have hit the wild in a big way.
At work we saw a number of emails from a facebookmail.com address (that’s where facebook e-mails come from), suggesting that you might want to add a friend.
The add a friend link actually sent you off to an isgreat.org domain, which had a facebook look-alike login page.
This was the closest that I’ve ever come to clicking on a phising link. I only stopped for two reasons
- my work e-mail isn’t associated with facebook at all.
- the name didn’t tempt me at all.
If it went to my real facebook account I might have been tempted (but sure won’t now).
The security adage – Don’t click on links in e-mails is definitely true. Even for facebook sending nice helpful e-mails with links.
This isn’t the only way that phishing is happening for facebook. See here, and techcrunch
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