just one of them "public access service" sort of posts when such things come my way, look you see. whilst not claiming to be an expert on internet safety or anything like that, i do believe it's important to share info when you see scams, in the hope of letting others know how to avoid them.
this time out it is an almost convincing email of the "phishing" (fishing pronunciation) variety, seeking to gain access to all of your facebook details. and probably your bank, and anything else you have. so, before we go on, please don't type in any addresses i reference here, and if you see a mail like this then delete it.
right, here we go, the mail.
some limited applause, as this looks sort of ok. importantly, the return email address uses a legit facebook domain. for a rare change, too, the grammar in the actual email - some nonsense about an identity check - is not complete garbage.
an immediate warning sign, however, is the incorrect font used for the name facebook, and how it is not properly flush or lined up with the logo icon thing. that bloke what owns the facebook thing takes brand value quite seriously, and as he will have made another US$1 billion or so by the time you have read this sentence, he kind of has enough money to make sure proper corporate branding is in place.
one other immediate warning sign was, of course, that this email came in to an email address i use for some things, but has never ever, not once, been linked to any facebook account. so it was known that it was immediate bullsh!t.
when you hover over the "Upload Now" button, where no doubt you will be taken to a fake but real looking facebook page, you can see the actual address it will take you to. and here it is.
even those what have even more of a less of a disregard for spelling than how i do will surely know that in no way is "nabrdr" a way of typing "facebook". so, yeah, it is a fake site behind that button.
who, or whom, or what owns this fake site? once again i went and had a look at the excellent internet resource who.is, and found quite a mystery.
how very strange that a supposed facebook security internet page web domain would be Russian registered, and indeed have the company details behind it "hidden" by an identity protect company. which is all the further conclusive information (or, if dramatic, proof) that is required to dismiss this as all fake.
my straight out fair dinkum advice to you is that if you ever get a mail from facebook, or anyone, urging you to login to "confirm" something, don't click on anything in the mail. rather go to your web browser (chrome, firefox, safari, internet explorer, etc) and type in the address yourself, or follow a link. make sure the address is displayed in the address bar, and that "padlock" thing is there next to it to show you are secure.
just try and keep safe out there online, people.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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