Fake Facebook Login Phishing Scam
The original site is no longer online; links go to the Internet Archive copy.
The claim
Subject: Look at this
fbstart.com
What the fact-checkers found
Facebook users have been receiving messages like the one below that are designed to trick them into providing their Facebook login details to Internet criminals.
Those who click on the link in these messages will be taken to a bogus website designed to look like a genuine Facebook login page. The bogus sites have domain names such as “fbstarter.com” and “fbaction.net”. If a user logs in to one of the fake pages, his or her Facebook account details can then be collected by scammers.
Armed with this information, the scammers can then log in to their victim’s real Facebook account, steal personal information and use the account for fraudulent purposes such as spamming or sending further scam messages.
At the time of writing “fbstarter.com” and “fbaction.net” had been reported as phishing sites and were no longer active. However, other fake Facebook sites are likely to follow.
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