Don't Get Dooped: Facebook Phishing Scam

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Facebook has made an announcement to let their users know about a new phishing email scam that is aimed at Facebook users. You get an email asking you to provide you email. If you provide it, someone else then has your Facebook password.

Phishing is a term used to describe the act of a group of douche-bags sending you a fake email (an email that looks like it is from someone who it isn't really from) or sending you to a fake website (a site that looks like it is some other site, in this case, Facebook) and ask you to enter your username and password. Once you enter your username and password, they will log you into the site and you will think all is well. Until all of your contacts receive bogus spam from your account.

Here is a fact, for those in doubt: Major site, like facebook, twitter, google, yahoo, etc... will never email you and ask you for your password. If you get an email that asks you for your password, it isn't from that major site.

Here is another fact, for those of you in doubt: the following two websites are very different-
http://www.facebook.com/LoginPage
http://10.50.100.1/www.facebook.com/LoginPage

The second site is a phishing site. If even one letter is different than what you know the web address is, then that means it is a different site. If I gave you my bank account number, and made a mistake and it was one number off, then you would have my incorrect account number. The same goes for web addresses. If you are even one letter different, then it isn't the right address.

If you ever end up at a phishing site, do the following:
1- Close the browser without logging in.
2- Clear your internet cache and temporary files.
3- If you had an email that sent you to the site, delete it.
4- If it was a link, posted by a friends account, notify your friend that they were dooped and warn other not to follow the link.

Be smart. The internet is very simple, but the gimmicks can be elaborate. Just follow the simple things you know about your trusted sites and you should be fine.