What is FBstarter.com? Yesterday a phishing scam spread across Facebook in the form of a message form a friend asking you to click on a link which took you to what appeared to be a Facebook login, but was actually at a different url http://fbaction.net. Luckily, it was quickly blocked.
Now there seems to be a new one linking to http://fbstarter.com/. It comes in the form of a message from a friend telling you to “Look at this!” When you click on the link, you are taken to what appears to be a Facebook sign-in page. If you go ahead and sign in, the phishers have access to your account and can then send messages to all of your friends. Do not give them your login info!
If you do sign in by mistake, the best thing to do is to change your password as quickly as possible. Make sure you are signed into the real Facebook when you do that though.
Again, it looks like this phishing attack is very successful. Right now “fbstarter.com” is the No. 1 hottest term on Google Trends.
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