![]() ![]() It’s also possible the dialogue will simply continue via mail. What is sent back may be a booby-trapped document of some kind, or perhaps phishing done through a form. "Report the user" is the most interesting one, pre-filling the subject line as “Send statement”. ![]() This phish follows the same path, opening one of two pre-filled response styles depending on which button you select. Anybody replying would likely receive additional requests for login details or much more besides. Instead, it popped open a pre-formatted mail in your client of choice for you to respond to the creators. That mail didn’t bother with phishing pages. You may remember the phish attempt claiming to have detected unusual sign-in activity from Russia. This one follows the same pattern as a mail we covered a little while ago. What happens when you click the button(s)? The expected process is to be whisked away to a phishing page and enter your details. The second one just says “Yes, me” instead of something more plausible such as “Yes, it’s me” or even just “It was me”. The first one says “Report the user” which makes sense. However, it goes a bit off the rails with the two clickable buttons presented. We are sending you this email to verify it's really you. Someone tried to Iog into Your Account, User lDĪ user just logged into your Facebook account from a new device Samsung S21. When that happens, we often see increasing amounts of typos or broken mail design. ![]() There’s a tendency with some phish attempts to overstuff the mail with all manner of nonsense to look more convincing. The mail itself combines a fairly clean design with minimal messaging. As for the panic aspect, the phishers have pinned the hopes of this attack onto the old faithful “Someone is trying to login as you, so you'd better do something about it ASAP” routine. The mail looks professional enough, and seeks to imitate what would be a fairly typical looking message from Facebook. The ruse is quite simple: The mail senders are relying on the recipient’s sense of panic to respond without thinking about it. Watch out for bogus Facebook phishing messages winging their way to your mailbox. ![]()
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