During the past 24 hours, there has been a massive wave of phishing attempts targeting Facebook page owners, such as entrepreneurs and hobby groups.
Unlike most other previous scams, this one is quite believable. Pae owner gets a notification from a fake Facebook account called "Notification Page" claiming that unless user takes action her/his Facebook business page will be taken down ... [ read the full article ]
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How is this even a new item? I mean, shouldn't facebook have killed that account before third party sites had a chance to post it? Or is it like all other facebook profiles where it takes 3 months before it deletes?
C'mon, the directing link is a dead giveaway... If anyone falls for that, maybe they need a little enlightenment on modern technology and the different methods of scam artists.
Originally posted by chilen: How is this "belivable" when the link in the message does not even use the word facebook in it?
If your stupid enough to fall for this, you deserve to get hacked.
We are talking about facebook users and corporate officers. I am not calling these people stupid, but I am saying that a lot of them have close to zero tech knowledge.
To give you an idea, a woman who runs her own business recently asked for mp3's of her father's 1972 garage band. I uploaded a zip full of MP3's to google drive, all she had to do was click a download link and extract the zip. I even included instructions for extraction. She couldn't figure it out so I had to re-upload and she downloaded the individual MP3's one at a time.
I can definitely see how someone like that would fall for such a scam. Companies like Facebook are built for users like this; that's why they pay to have their app included on phones. Given that they seem to target users like this they should really protect them better.
