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Beware of the New Facebook Password Reset Scam


If you get an e-mail that appears to be from Facebook saying the company reset your password and urging you to open an attachment, it is a scam. Beware of an e-mail that appears to come from Facebook urging recipients to open an attachment to get their new password.  The attachment contains a password stealer that can potentially access any username and password combination used on the computer, not just the login credentials for Facebook.

There are obvious clues that this is a phishing scam. For one, Facebook doesn't send e-mails like this. It may send an e-mail with a link where the user can reset the password, but not an e-mail with an attachment.  Secondly, the e-mail has poor grammar and awkward phrases.

Donna Pogroszewski
Communications and Network Services
03/19/2010