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Are you receiving emailed links from Facebook friends?

Since last August, we’ve been receiving junk emails that appear to be a Facebook friend and contain a single link (see sample below). The actual email address used is usually a yahoo address. It’s not terribly frequent but it is annoying. We had a customer call in about it, so it seems to be more widespread.

The usual advice applies: Delete the message on sight, and don’t trust strange links even if it seems to be from a friend.

Facebook Scam

Example Facebook Scam Email

I found a couple articles about this problem:

  1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2012/08/29/facebook-spam-email-spear-phishing/
  2. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57507648-83/spam-from-friends-is-actually-result-of-facebook-hole/

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