Fake Facebook notifications arriving in your email
Sophos security announced that spammers are again striking facebook users with malicious email notifications. In fact, DiversityHuman.com facebook account is also a victim.
Our Facebook account received exactly the same message what Sophos has posted in their site:
Subject: You have notifications pending
Hi,
Here's some activity you have missed on Facebook.
4 friend request
[Go To Facebook] [See All Notifications]
Honestly, I almost clicked the link because it looks pretty convincing and sometimes I am also a trigger happy too. Unlike before, spammers would create redirect links to a phishing site but now it goes to a legitimate site. In this case, a pharmaceutical website. Affiliates/spammers are earning cash by driving traffic to the website.
Nowadays, making money is getting more serious than before. Stealing credit card information obviously can generate income but it's difficult to be stealth at all times. But doing things like this, it looks legitimate because it points to a valid website. However, this is still not acceptable in the world of information technology.
To our readers and followers, always be cautious and don't click any suspicious links even inside your personal mailbox outside Facebook.
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