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People are getting more and more creative when it comes to fraud other people. And with today’s Web technologies, there are 1000 ways to lure people and try to hijack their accounts, stole their money, etc…

Today, I received what seems to be a normal email from Facebook. Someone named Linda asking if we were knowing each other:

Linda sent you a message.

(no subject)

Hi, have we met ever before? Linda

Thanks,
The Facebook Team

Cool, a new friend! However, I saw the scam 1 second later. After the message from Linda, the following was displayed:

To reply to this message, follow the link below:
http://facebook-reply.mountadamajani.com/html-h1.htm

Since when did Facebook Web site was on any other domain then facebook.com ? What’s that mountadamajani.com ? No doubt, anymore, it’s a Phishing email, which is an email sent to someone to try to lure him into inputing his username and password, in that case, with the goal to hijack his Facebook account. Nicely played. If you don’t pay attention, you don’t see the scam.

But clicking on the link, there is a little white box that does not belong there, which can be another signal, and of course, looking at t he URL, you can easily understand you are in no way on Facebook’s Web site. You are on a criminal’s Web site who wants you to input your username and password so they can log into your account and do whatever they want.

As you can see, it’s pretty easy to spot the scam, but unfortunately, some people will fall right into the trap. So please, be careful .