Facebook Introduces New Email Address to Phishing Scam

Facebook phishing email scam

In an effort to protect users and control of phishing, the social networking giant Facebook gives to users a select e-mail address to send their reports of the illegal practice of phishing scam. Phishing has been banned by the Facebook for years & today it published that it is making a new attempt to control the practice. It's launching a select e-mail address, phish@fb.com, where users can send notices of phishing they've seen on the Facebook network.

An example: its seem to all, those annoying clickable phishing ads in their news feed or posted on friend's Facebook walls like: "Get free tickets to Jamaica," "Win a free iPad," or "Friend, I need money urgently."

Phishing has been banned by the Facebook for years & today it published that it is making a new attempt to control the practice. It's launching with a selected e-mail address, phish@fb.com, where users can send any notices about phishing related link which they've seen on the Facebook network. 

Facebook wrote in a blog post today that by providing Facebook with reports who can investigate and request for browser blacklisting & site take downs where appropriate to users. Facebook also wrote "We will then work with our eCrime team to ensure we hold bad actors accountable. And in some cases, we'll be able to identify victims and secure their accounts as well."

The social network like Facebook classifies phishing as "any attempt to obtain personal information such as username, password & financial information via impersonation or takeoff". Over the years passed, phishing fear stories have headlined the news as people have been scammed out of thousands of dollars by their "banks" and "friends."

Facebook is a partner with the Anti-Phishing Working Group, which outlined these tips to help users be aware of phishers. These are given below:

• Be questionable of any email with urgent requests for login or asking financial information, remember unless the email is digitally signed, you can't be sure it wasn't ‘furnace’ or 'spoofed.'

• It takes efforts to attack phishing activities; Facebook said that the e-mail address for users is meant to compliment its own internal detection system.

• Please don't use the links in an email, instant message, or chat to get to any web page if you suspect that the message it not authentic to you or you never trust the sender, instead navigate to the website directly.

• Facebook made an effort over the last few months to directly connect with users to find the way of phishing, when it comes to security. The social network announced in June it would be contacting users believed to have computers infected with the DNS Changer virus to help them figure out how to rid their networks of the malicious malware.

• The internal systems notify Facebook team, so they can gather information on the attack, so take the phishing sites offline and notify Facebook team. Facebook wrote today's blog post, "Affected users will be asked to change their password & provided education to better protect them in the future."