Email password reset scam targets Facebook, all details
As part of this Email password reset scam, users get a fake, but legitimate looking Email alert, which warns them that they need to reset their password. This Email has an attachment, which users are asked to open so as to get a new password.
USERS OF popular social networking website Facebook, are being warned about an Email password reset scam, which is slowly worming its way among the service's 400 million users as per an announcement by experts on Thursday.
Dave Marcus, McAfee Labs security research and communications manager, said that users need to be very careful with such mails, especially those which are unsolicited, that is those which have been sent sans a request for them by users. This is the only way to should be clued in to the scam when it promises to provide an unsolicited Facebook password reset.
He said, "Companies don't send you unsolicited passwords. Users have to look at their inboxes with a bit of skepticism. The volume of spam and scams is monstrously high. Most of the e-mails in your inbox are either a scam or a phish."
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