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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

#21054 — Fake Facebook businesses lure 5k honest businesses for data & credentials

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/

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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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