Here's How to Prevent Facebook Account Theft

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Avoid FB Phishing
Avoid FB Phishing

Here's How to Prevent Facebook Account Theft – Currently there is a lot of phishing activity that has the aim of taking Facebook accounts. One method is to send a message stating that your Facebook account has been locked due to copyright infringement.

Apart from messages, users will receive e-mails notifying them of threats in the form of prohibitions against copyright infringement. The intent is to retrieve the user's login credentials.

Characteristics of messages from Facebook account thieves

Based on Kaspersky's release, there are several ways to prevent Facebook account theft.

First, pay attention to the text in the email message. Even though it does not have errors in language structure as is often seen in spam, anyone will notice that the letter is not written with good language construction.

Then, to trick the spam filter in the email, the perpetrator included a small, deliberate error in the body of the email by giving the capital letter I instead of the lower case L. If your email uses a serif font, letter replacements are considered to be easy to spot.

In the email sent, there is a link that leads to Facebook. It's another trick designed to trick spam filters. But the page does not contain an official notification, but is just a note.

The link will bring users asking for the email address or phone number linked to your Facebook account. The interface page itself looks like Facebook, but a closer look reveals it has nothing to do with the social network.

After the user clicks the send button, the display will enter the password. When a user enters the password on this page, your account will end up in the hands of cybercriminals.

How to protect your Facebook account from hijacking:

  1. Check the sender's address before clicking the link in the email. It is not possible for Facebook to send notifications from non-Facebook email domains.
  2. Recognize strange letters written in the body of the email. typos and spelling errors in the email text, and consider any message that comes through to be suspect.
  3. Always log in to your account through the app or by entering a URL by typing it in, not by clicking a link.
  4. Avoid entering login credentials through third parties or other pages, but if this happens and you lose access to your account, contact customer service immediately.
  5. Install security software that can notify users if they try to open a suspicious page.

source: cnnindonesia.com

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Lovata Andrean

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