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I 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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About the Author

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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