Beware “Part Of Me Left You” Facebook Scams
A successful Facebook phishing scam is resulting in numerous Facebook accounts posting clickbait messages such as “It’s like a Part of me let with you” along with links to malicious websites.
Hijacking social media accounts to post malicious links under the identity of the account holder is a common tactic oft employed by cyber-crooks to spread their schemes, and this is another successful example.
In the case of this latest example, compromised Facebook accounts are posting vague “clickbait” messages like the one below.
The post is designed to attract the attention of the friends and contacts of the Facebook account holder. The post – usually in the comments section as seen above – also offer a link where contacts can presumably get more information on the original post.
But of course it’s a cleverly designed social engineering trap. The link in the comments will actually forward users to phishing websites which mimic the Facebook login page which ask social media users to enter their Facebook login username and password, which are then sent to the scammers.
Once the scammers have that login information, they can then post the same messages and links from those newly compromised accounts, and thus the scam proliferates across the social platform.
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There is nothing new or novel about these types of scams. We’ve been warning about themselves for years. The only element that changes is the wording of the clickbait posts. Every now and again the scammers stumble on a particularly successful permutation of clickbait wording which launches their scams to viral victory.
In the cases we’ve seen, these scams are leading to typical phishing sites that ask for login details. They can also link to websites that ask you to download files to your device, putting your device at risk of malware infections.
Learn to spot these clickbait links that seem suspiciously vague and place an emphasis on luring you into clicking a link, and ask your Facebook friends to delete these messages to help curb their spread.
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