Fbstarter.com and Facebook Phishing: How to Protect Yourself
By Jared Newman
FBStarter.com Facebook Phishing – Your friends may be trustworthy in the real world, but online, it’s a different story. A phishing scam has invaded Facebook, sending users to bogus links under the guise of a message from a friend. These were previously identifiable by the text “fbaction.net,” but has changed flavors to “fbstarter.com.” Facebook has blocked the former URL, only to be replaced by fbstarter.com, and we’ll probably see other URLs down the line Facebook tries to contain the threat. Clicking on the link sends you to a login page that looks like Facebook’s, but with a different URL, at a site that’s just trying to steal your login information. As a rule of thumb, don’t hand over any login data anywhere unless you’ve entered in the URL yourself. And be wary of shady messages from friends; they’re not always what they seem. [via Mashable and TechCrunch]
