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Re: Fake Facebook businesses lure 5k honest businesses for data & credentials

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Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-202511.rodent.frell.theremailer.net>
writes:

> More than 5,000 businesses that use Facebook for advertising were 
> bombarded by tens of thousands of phishing emails in a credential- and 
> data-stealing campaign.
>
> Check Point researchers say that they spotted about 40,000 phishing 
> emails sent to their customers across the US, Europe, Canada, and 
> Australia - and they were sent from the legitimate facebookmail.com 
> domain.
>
> While most organizations received fewer than 300 messages, one company 
> alone was hit with more than 4,200.
>
> To pull off this phishing expedition, the criminals created shell 
> Facebook Business pages representing businesses that don't exist, and 
> then used the Business invitation feature to send phishing emails that 
> look like the real deal.
>
> More here:
> https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/5k_facebook_advertising_customer
> s_phishing/

Fake Facebook seems to take after his big brother real Facebook. Real
Facebook steals data from billions instead of a petty thousands.

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Fake Facebook businesses lure 5k honest businesses for data & credentials Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-202511.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2025-11-17 00:10 +0100
  Re: Fake Facebook businesses lure 5k honest businesses for data & credentials Nathan Smith <nathansmith@posteo.com> - 2025-11-16 21:28 -0700

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