Targeted Spamming via Facebook

26. September, 2012

 

In the past few weeks, I started getting mails from friends which just contain a link:

hey, Aaron

    http://some-dubious-link/a/b/c/

9/25/2012 12:34:56 PM

Turns out that someone is analyzing my Facebook account and sends me mails using names from my friends list.

If you get such a mail, don’t click on the link. It probably points to a page which infects your computer with a virus.

Right now, these mails are pretty easy to identify as fake because the email address is wrong. But you should know that the sender address in emails is just a text; neither the sending nor the receiving computer will check what is in there. A spammer can write anything into that field. If the scheme starts to fail too often, I expect to see “better” email addresses.

This means as a receiver, you should never click on links in emails. As a sender, you should never share links by email.

 


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