{"id":1880,"date":"2011-09-02T11:51:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T15:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2011-09-02T11:51:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T15:51:40","slug":"who-is-khulood-abbas-and-why-does-he-want-to-be-my-friend-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/who-is-khulood-abbas-and-why-does-he-want-to-be-my-friend-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Khulood Abbas and why does he want to be my friend on Facebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t use Facebook for non-friends or relatives so it’s odd when complete strangers send me friend requests.<\/p>\n

The emails appear to be coming from Facebook’s notification service, with a subject such as “Khulood Abbas wants to be friends with you on Facebook.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Of course, the sender is spoofed and it’s yet another phishing attempt that will lead the unsuspected to surrender their Facebook passwords.<\/p>\n

The links that supposedly take you to Facebook’s login page point to a page on a freshly registered domain, permitds.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

On a daily basis, I receive half a dozen such emails. This is not your average annoying but innocent spam; it’s a brazen attempt to hijack your Facebook password.<\/p>\n

The hackers then move onto other linked accounts, trying to test that password; you’d be surprised to know that more than 30% of Internet users share passwords across several accounts: personal and business email, social network accounts etc.<\/p>\n

Never click on emails<\/strong> – no matter how authentic they appear to be<\/em> – when prompted to visit a web site; simply visit the web site’s URL by directly typing it into your browser. Never share<\/strong> the same password between accounts.<\/p>\n

Here’s some more info about security<\/strong><\/a> in one of my previous posts.<\/p>\n

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