Facebook is no stranger to phishing scams and today another one is making its way around Facebook. The scam gets users to fill in their email address and password and then posts 25 wall messages on the walls of the user’s friends. What makes this version of the scam unique is that if the user deletes the wall posts, this system is apparently smart enough to post additional wall posts.
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When you log in to a site with Facebook Connect and it prompts you for your email and password, how do you know the site you are viewing is Facebook? This question crossed my mind earlier this afternoon and my conclusion was that there’s little information provided that ensures you are viewing a Facebook page. The only thing that you can see that guarantees you are at Facebook is the URL provided in the browser window (as pictured below).
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A warning from Google Chrome browser this morning alerted users trying to access Facebook that the widely used social network may be a phishing site, reports TechCrunch and tons of people on Twitter. Throughout the course of the morning, more and more users found that a similar warning appeared with Safari and Firefox browsers as well. This didn’t bode well for Facebook and we’d guess that there was also a temporary decrease in traffic resulting from this.
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