Facebook Phishing

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Phishing is "the activity of tricking people by getting them to give their identity, bank account members, etc. over the Internet or by email, and then using these to steal money from them.", Nowadays phishing is so common that everyone can simply learn it by watching phishing tutorials videos from youtube.

This post is going to discuss about phishing in facebook. First, people will fall into phishing in facebook mainly because they have clicked into some link that sent by a phisher. Those message can be from e-mail, user wall or any website.

(example of e-mail from phisher)

*can you spot the typo error in the picture?

After clicking to the link, a fake page created by facebook phisher will appear, bear in mind that facebook.com login URL is always "http://www.facebook.com/login.php".

(this is not facebook URL)

Ways to avoid from falling from facebook phishing.

- Choose a unique username and password for it, try not to set the same password for every accounts because this may cause you keep stolen information from compromising other accounts. (If it's too difficult for you to remember every single password from each site, I suggest to write a note and paste it beside the screen of your own personal computer)

- Always check the URL whenever you enter facebook.com, as I have stated earlier.

- Always update Anti-Virus Program for protecting your site from unknown virus.

- Remember facebook will not ask for re-enter password whenever you access to applications in facebook. (except: when you set a security question, send a virtual gift, or change your contact email.)

- Be extra aware of weird wall post, do not simply click on them unless you know very well where they go.

- Set a security question on your Facebook Account Setting page. For victims who have been phished, Facebook User Operations team needs you to answer to that question to let you back in your facebook account.

- Look for typo error!

(note: we helpS - typo error)

Online reference:
1. Ryan McGeehan, No Phishing,[Online],Retrieved on 1 February 2011.
URL: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=14600297130
2. Pinoytek, How to Stay Away From Phishing Websites That Look Like Facebook?,[Online], Retrieved on 1 February 2011.
URL: http://pinoytek.net/internet/how-to-stay-away-from-phishing-website-that-looks-like-facebook
3. MIKE, Facebook Phishing Attack, [Online], Retrieved on 1 February 2011.
URL: http://gadgetsteria.com/2009/04/29/facebook-phishing-attack-uh-oh/#