Comments on: Anatomy Of A Facebook Update Scam

By: chikubetsukeire

chikubetsukeire — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:12:15 +0000

Very valuable piece

By: triona

triona — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:41:30 +0000

Hi Lisa, yes this is my real site! It’s always good to be paranoid. There are plenty of fake friend requests and other phishing scams like this out there.

Hi Ann, glad you liked the tip!

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:11:47 +0000

Thanks for publishing this. I’ve been getting a lot of these and because I knew it was not how Facebook worked, I didn’t click. But I didn’t know how to check. Great tip!

By: LisaFla

LisaFla — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:35:56 +0000

Hi, Triona. I’m relatively sure this is how my entire home network ended up infected – a fake Friend request that had been FWD’ed to my email. grrr.

Is this your real site? (lol – yes, I’ve been paranoid since getting infected back around Valentine’s Day.)

Thx for the update. LK

By: triona

triona — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:12:30 +0000

Hi Kathy, I have had the same experience. But sometimes the scams come into your bona fide address, or are otherwise tricky to catch. Thanks for writing!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:31:32 +0000

thanks Triona, I did just receive a FB scam. Knew it though because the e-mail address it was sent to was not my user address.