FaceUBook.com - Facebook’s evil twin
October 18th, 2008 by Vishen Lakhiani Read more about Facebook, Social MediaI got a message from a friend of mine on Facebook. The message told me to check out a particular blog on AOL. I clicked on a link and ended up briefly on the AOL blog site…
…but then that page refreshed and I saw this.
Why would Facebook be asking me to reenter my password?
I glanced the URL bar and this is what I saw:
it wasn’t Facebook.com. It was FaceuBook.com!
It turns out this was a phishing site. It fools users into re-entering their Facebook username and password. It then sends messages to everyone in your Friends list asking them to check out a particular blog.
When they do, the process repeats itself.
In addition to causing a lot of embarrassment and hassle to your friends, the jerk behind this scam also gets access to all your personal info.
I hope Facebook.com takes some action against FaceUBook.com, shuts down this domain and figures out how to keep these scams from affecting innocent users.
In the meantime, when entering passwords on sites like Facebook, PayPal etc, don’t forget to check your address bar to make sure you’re on the legit site.
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Vishen is a co-founder of MindValley.
Before MindValley, he was an exec in Silicon Valley and New York for several internet and technology firms. He turned bedroom entrepreneur at 27 and by the time he was 31 had founded 6 web businesses and never had to work a conventional job again.
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omg i got that
andi go to my friend
why the heck didi t bring me there???
and she signed off…
so its a hacker thing right?
i didnt put my stuff in but if i did wat would of happened?
Thank you so much! I almost fell into that trap, but luckily I was suspicious when the site redirected itself. I noticed that it was Faceubook.com, and I am so glad I did! I also told all my friends about it, so hopefully they won’t fall into that trap as well.
PS-I also think that it does more than just send out automatic messages to all your friends, because I also got an IM from the person that sent me the original message saying something about a Macy’s giftcard.
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Great info. I didn’t receive anything like this yet. At least now that I know about it, I can avoid it and inform my friends. Thanks.