Facebook Spam, Phishing? www.facebook.com.profile.php.id371233.cn

Breaking from the topic of Project Leadership for a moment, I was intrigued to receive this message on Facebook from a friend in London at 5:15 this morning:

lol i cant believe these pics got posted....its going to be BADDDD when her boyfriend sees these- http://www.facebook.com.profile.php.id.371233.cn

If it wasn’t from someone I trust and like to share the odd joke with, I wouldn’t have gone anywhere near it.  But I did.  The link takes you to a page that requests you to log-in to Facebook – and when you do, you go to your home page.  Hmmm….peculiar.  So what’s it all about?

Unless you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ve probably already tried the link; I think it’s best to change your Facebook password.  This appears to be a spurious log-in page, and it’s possible that it is being used to capture log-ins and passwords – a technique known as known as Phishing.

When I changed my password, I was reminded that Facebook is willing to store credit card details – so there might be financial implications to this Phishing attempt.

If you receive this message from me now, please accept my apologies.  A new year, and a new form of web abuse.  Happy 2008!

— Philip Greenwood

Tags: Facebook, Spam, Phishing, Virus, Trojan