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UHHHHHHHHHHGGGGG !!!!!

There, I got that out.

I just received my first Facebook Phishing attempt. This is unbelievable - can we please pass a friggin law that allows the death-penalty for these assholes?!?

I'm sorry folks - I've always watched my language on this blog, but I find no other way of describing these people.

I got this email today:

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Ray sent you a message.

Subject: Look at this!

"fbstarter.com"

To reply to this message, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?inbox/readmessage.php&t=1006165330410&mid=63b5b8G225127d4G2365040G0

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This message was intended for miguel@steelbluesolutions.com. Want to control which emails you receive from Facebook? Go to:
http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?notifications&md=bXNnO2Zyb209Njk2OTA1MTU3O3Q9MTAwNjE2NTMzMDQxMDt0bz01NzU3NDM5NTY=&mid=63b5b8G225127d4G2365040G0
Facebook's offices are located at 156 University Ave., Palo Alto, CA 943

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

And of course, the fbstarter.com site is designed to look exactly like the Facebook login screen.

I know this is an old trick and it's still used to obtain banking passwords and such, but social sites ?!?!?

Am I the only one who would get actual pleasure and satisfaction by seeing these people hanged by their testicles (we can be equally creative if they were women), and picked at by 100 people each armed with nothing more than a pair of pliers?!?

Anyway - just be on the lookout for these emails, folks.

 


posted @ Thursday, April 30, 2009 2:56 AM |

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Gravatar # re: Death Penalty for Phishers !!!
Posted by Chris G. Williams on 4/30/2009 5:21 AM
Hey Miguel... I haven't seen any FB phishing scams yet, so I consider myself lucky. I'm sure it's only a matter of time.

There is, however, something of equal urgency and importance that I feel the need to let you know about... ;)

Your blog post is nearly unreadable, due to lack of formatting. (This probably isn't your fault, but if you're using FireFox or Chrome, you need to manually insert HTML tags for paragraphs and stuff since they don't play well with the GWB RichText editor.)

I would recommend using LiveWriter moving forward, it's made of pure awesome... and your posts will look great, and your readers will thank you.

peace.
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