Malware . . . ?

Jestertheclown

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19 Dec 2012 - 5:19 PM

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I've just found this email amongst today's collection.
Its title was to do with "account activation," purportedly sent from Facebook alert.


Hi bren,
Your account has been blocked due to spam activity.
To activate account, please follow this link:
*http://www.*f*ceb**k*.com/confirmemail.php?e=bren@photosbyjester.com&c=0389455*
You may be asked to enter this confirmation code: 0389455
The Facebook Team


(I've added the *asterisks* to, hopefully, invalidate the link.)

Does this strike anyone as being real or potentially harmful?

I opened the email with some trepidation and I'm certainly not going to click on either of the links (there's a tiny one at the bottom which I'm supposed to click on if I've received the email in error.)

My concerns regarding its validity are founded on the fact that I wouldn't touch Facebook with a forty foot disinfected bargepole whilst wearing surgical gloves.

cats_123 (e2 Member)

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19 Dec 2012 - 5:29 PM

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always use your own bookmark to access any site that suggests something is wrong..it will soon tell you

adrian_w (e2 Member)

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19 Dec 2012 - 5:31 PM

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Quote: My concerns regarding its validity are founded on the fact that I wouldn't touch Facebook with a forty foot disinfected bargepole whilst wearing surgical gloves

So from that I assume you don't have a facebook account, so you're not likely to want to activate it are you.
It looks extremely dodgy to me.

I've recently been plagued by emails about my yahoo account being compromised. Thing is, I don't have a yahoo account. Instant spambox/delete.
Also had 3 phonecalls today to tell me my microsoft account is under attack. The last was from a "very senior microsoft engineer". He started to get a bit upset when I said "liar" to everything he told me.

Jestertheclown

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19 Dec 2012 - 5:34 PM

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Quote: Instant spambox/delete.

My thoughts entirely Adrian.

I think that I've encountered your Microsoft man as well. Funnily enough, he didn't take kindly to what I said to him either!

robthecamman

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19 Dec 2012 - 6:30 PM

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treat all emails you know nothing of as junk delete dont open

BEVZED (e2 Member)

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19 Dec 2012 - 6:48 PM

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HARMFUL! Had one too, only my registered fb email is actually a disposable and this came through to my main address. I use the same as Andy, text codes every time I log in, pain in the proverbials but sort of safer

Jestertheclown

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19 Dec 2012 - 10:40 PM

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I'm the same Andy.

I've got about six, many of which are disposable, although this one arrived via my main, personal one.
I've no idea what might have occured if I'd clicked on a link but they really picked on the wrong person to catch out by referring to Facebbook.

User_Removed

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20 Dec 2012 - 10:00 AM

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It's a standard phishing ploy.

These scammers reckon that if they send out 100-million such e-mails, a few thousand folk will be daft enough to open them and a few hundred of those will be daft enough to click on the link and a few dozen of those will be daft enough to enter their User ID and Password. And, Bingo, they are into your system to do whatever evil they have in mind.

The most dangerous ones purport to come from banks, eBay, PayPal and other such services where there are cash accounts to be emptied. But, of course, once they have the mug punter's details from the likes of Facebook, Flickr, AOL or wherever, they can then use those details to cause all sorts of criminal mischief by setting up false accounts in the punter's name.