{"id":2684,"date":"2019-04-06T19:34:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2684"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"PHISHING---'Security-Alert-Facebook-Disabled'-Email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2684","title":{"rendered":"PHISHING &#8211; &#8216;Security Alert Facebook Disabled&#8217; Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2>Outline<\/h2>\n<p>Message purporting to be from the Facebook Security team claims that, due to suspicious account activity that violates the Terms of Service, your Facebook account will be automatically disabled if you do not click a link and confirm account details within 12 hours. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Brief Analysis<\/h2>\n<p>The message is not from Facebook and the claim that your Facebook account will be disabled if you do not confirm account details is a lie. The message is a phishing scam designed to trick users into submitting their account login details and other personal information to criminals.<\/p>\n<h2>Example<\/h2>\n<div class=\"example\">\n<p>(\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2SECURITY ALERT\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2) Your Facebook Account Disabled !! Our security s\u00d1\u0192stem detects suspicious activity on your \u00d0\u00b0ccount that violates the \u00d0\u00a2erms of Servi\u00d1\u0081e (TOS),<\/p>\n<p>Please \u00d1\u0081onfirm your F\u00d0\u00b0cebook account immediately if you feel there has been a mistake. If you do not \u00d1\u0081onfirm, our system will automatically disable your Fa\u00d1\u0081ebook ac\u00d1\u0081ount.<br \/>\nPlease click the link below and confirm your account:<\/p>\n<p>[Link Removed]<\/p>\n<p>Note: Please confirm your account before 12 hours, or your account will be permanently disabled.<br \/>\nThenks,<br \/>\nThe F\u00ce\u00b1c\u00d0\u00b5b\u00d0\u00be\u00d0\u00bek Security Team \u00e2\u201e\u00a2<br \/>\nF\u00ce\u00b1c\u00d0\u00b5b\u00d0\u00be\u00d0\u00bek  \u00a9 2014 C\u00d0\u00bepy\u00d0\u00b3igh\u00d1\u201a \u00d0\u00bf\u00d0\u00b5\u00d1\u201aw\u00d0\u00be\u00d0\u00b3k I\u00d0\u00bfc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Detailed Analysis<\/h2>\n<p>According to this message, which purports to be from &#8216;Facebook Security&#8217;, your Facebook account will be permanently disabled if you do not confirm account details within 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The message claims that Facebook&#8217;s security system detected suspicious activity on the account that violates the Terms of Service (TOS) and your account is therefore about to be disabled as a result.<\/p>\n<p>But, claims the message, you can stop the account from being disabled by clicking a link and confirming your account information.<\/p>\n<p>However, the message is certainly not from Facebook Security or anyone else at Facebook. \u00a0 Instead, it is a \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/phishing-scams-anti-phishing-information\/\">phishing scam<\/a> \u00a0designed to trick you into giving your Facebook account information to criminals.<\/p>\n<p>If you click on the link as instructed, you will be taken to a fake Facebook page and asked to log in with your Facebook email address and password. You may also be asked to supply further personal and financial information, ostensibly as a means of proving your identity and confirming your account.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9162856233\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>But, once the fake update process is completed, all of the information you submitted will be collected by scammers and used to hijack your Facebook account and commit financial fraud in your name.<\/p>\n<p>Once they have accessed your account, the scammers will likely change the name of the account to &#8216;Facebook Security&#8217; or a similar variation and send out a new round of the phishing scam messages to all of your friends.<\/p>\n<p>This ensures that the scam messages reach a wide and varied audience and are sure to take in at least a few recipients. And because, the scam messages come from within Facebook&#8217;s own message system &#8211; via the compromised accounts &#8211; many users may believe that they are legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>Very similar \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/alert-from-facebook-security-team-phishing-scam\/\">Facebook Security phishing \u00a0scam<\/a> messages have \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/facebook-team-security-phishing-scam-last-warning-account-will-disabled\/\">targeted Facebook users<\/a> \u00a0for several years. Be very wary of any message that claims to be from Facebook Security or a \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/phishing-scam-account-reported-for-annoying-and-insulting-facebook-users\/\">similar name<\/a> \u00a0and instructs you to click a link to verify account details or update information.<\/p>\n<p>It is always safest to login to your Facebook account by entering the address into your browser&#8217;s address bar or via a legitimate Facebook app rather than by clicking a link in a message.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/phishing-security-alert-facebook-disabled-email\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/phishing-security-alert-facebook-disabled-email\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline Message purporting to be from the Facebook Security team claims that, due to suspicious account activity that violates the Terms of Service, your Facebook account will be automatically disabled if you do not click a link and confirm account details within 12 hours. \u00a0 Brief Analysis The message is not from Facebook and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}