WARNING: Check URLs Before Entering Login Information; Facebook Is Not Faceboourk
As scams, malware, phishing, and other security dangers continue to thrive on Facebook, one way for users to protect themselves is actually quite simple: Examine the URLs of the pages you are taken to. After all, the name of the social network is “Facebook,” not “Faceboourk.”
As scams, malware, phishing, and other security dangers continue to thrive on Facebook, one way for users to protect themselves is actually quite simple: Examine the URLs of the pages you are taken to. After all, the name of the social network is “Facebook,” not “Faceboourk.”
Software architect Troy Hunt detailed a scam in a post on his blog, which works in a similar fashion to several other scams that have been reported in the past, but the URLs containing Faceboourk were an early indicator that something was amiss.
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