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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Why FaceBook Lets Spammers Use It for Phishing?

There are only few good social media platforms online, but surely not FB.

I received in one time 4 emails sent by somebody using FB to four of my personal emails to join him there.

The only instructions from FB at the bottom of the email are:

To sign up for Facebook, follow the link below:

Already have an account? Add this email address to your account:

That means the platform has no means to block spammers special those using FB to spam people they do not know or just for Phishing purposes.

That person uses four of my emails and intentionally and he knows by doing that, he submits my emails to other services through face book. There are no measures to deal with this in face book.

This is why I consider this social media not good.

Two of the emails have the following invitation:

I have started using Quiz Planet, an application on Facebook, and I think you would like it too. Facebook is a website that lets you connect with your friends, share photos, use applications and more.

Almost all of the sources of the emails are as follows:

Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 01:16:18 -0800
To: my first email
From: the spammer at invite+ooy2osj6 @ facebookmail dot com
Reply-to: the spammer at his private email
Subject: Join me on Facebook
Message-ID: 206ffaed185aae4ad173ee4b1f678af4 @ www dot facebook dot com
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: ZuckMail [version 1.00]
X-Facebook-Notify: general_invite; mailid=377ca8fG289c2100G0G8
Errors-To: invite+ooy2osj6 at facebookmail dot com
X-FACEBOOK-PRIORITY: 1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="b1_206ffaed185aae4ad173ee4b1f678af4"
X-Spam-Level: 2/5
-Classification-phishing: 1
-Classification-spam: 2
-Diagnostics: database-version=2010-10-01_01 tests=spam.CT_UNKNOWN=1,spam.[str=0001.0A3C0202.4D0DD927.009A:SCFMA12945349/ss=1/fgs=0]=0

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