Tonight I signed into Facebook and immediately got an onsite message from my good friend Douglas Karr.
As you can read in the screen capture, it appears like a very personal message from Doug and he even references someone that appears to be a friend, Sara, but I don’t know who that is really.
The message promises me that I’ll get a free iPhone if I click on the links and do what they say right?
Not on your life!
Notice the site within a site? Could be a typo of some kind, but makes me immediately not trust it. Which is a good thing, because I immediately gave it some validity since the message came from my friend.
Douglas has reported it to Facebook. Maybe we’ll hear something about it soon.
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The official response: We have detected suspicious activity on your Facebook account and have reset your password as a security precaution. It is possible that malicious software was downloaded to your computer or that your password was stolen by a phishing website designed to look like Facebook. Please carefully follow the steps provided…
Ouch. I guess Facebook has reached that point where Virus authors find it worthy to try and spread something amongst the service.
Well, that’s loaded with help for anyone else experiencing the problem. Should they just report it to Facebook if they experience the same thing?
That’s good to know. I’m always super gullible about stuff like that. To me it seems even more malicious to plant spam and virus on social media than traditional web media. So many more people are exposed. I just had to wipe out my fiancee’s computer due to a virus, and she was really pissed. Thanks for the heads up!
Doug/Jason
I’ve seen various facebook “viruses” before… and to my knowledge all of them start the same way… by grabbing a users password on a face “facebook” logon screen…
To be honest, *I* actually fell for it once, but caught myself as soon as I hit submit, and instantly changed my password (before it had time to use my creds… literally 5 seconds after submitting I changed it)
Anyways, I’m not that sure that reporting it to facebook helps, but always change your password.