Wednesday, June 5, 2013
How To Report A Phishing Attack On Facebook
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Facebook as the biggest medium in social society gives birth to many
stealing identities trying to scramble the life of an innocent person.
Well Facebook has provided many options that you can opt in for much
more smoother experience, well still many professional criminals can
find some or the another way to get into your account and the one much
popular way is through phishing pages.
Well
phishing refers to acquires your usernames, passwords and credit card
information by some illegal website displaying, means the website on
which you will login will not be actually the original one but the
cloned version of it with scripts and other stuff added to it for
sniffing out your passwords. Phishing can done through email spoofing
method or instant messaging method and many more introducing day by day.
Facebook just came with another big update for this security flaw by introducing a simple email service which you can use and report any phishing scam on the go, so that they can check it out, track it and get the website and owner down.
They have also said that you can send emails to Anti-Phishing Working Group, Federal Trade Commission or Internet Crime Complaint Center.
What is a Phishing Attack ?
Well
phishing refers to acquires your usernames, passwords and credit card
information by some illegal website displaying, means the website on
which you will login will not be actually the original one but the
cloned version of it with scripts and other stuff added to it for
sniffing out your passwords. Phishing can done through email spoofing
method or instant messaging method and many more introducing day by day.
Facebook just came with another big update for this security flaw by introducing a simple email service which you can use and report any phishing scam on the go, so that they can check it out, track it and get the website and owner down.
They have also said that you can send emails to Anti-Phishing Working Group, Federal Trade Commission or Internet Crime Complaint Center.
- Facebook phishing email - phish@fb.com
- Anti-Phishing working group - reportphishing@antiphishing.org
- Federal trade commission - spam@uce.gov
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