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

International Award Promotion Spam

EURO-MILLIONES
International Award Promotion
Suite 199 / 207 Santiago Benabeu
Madrid Spain

Dear Winner,

Subject: Final Award Notification

Euro Million International, a non religious and non racist organizations have jointly organized a Free Email Lottery Program to unite the human race in their religion/belief, as we believe that God is One and human beings are equally one not withstanding your religion, race,education or political background.

As the beneficiary/user of this email address, you have been selected as one of our lucky winners in this our Inaugural Lottery Award, which was organized in the Good Spirit of the past Ramadan and the previous Christmas since on the 27th of December 2007.

Note that all email addresses used in this promotion were presented by our International Marketing Department and draw was conducted via Computer Programmed Selection System in which your email address won in the 2nd Category with the following information:Ticket No: JIL/xxx-x-xx, with Serial No: 3 & 4, and Lucky No: 8,10, 14, 19, 33, thereby winning the sum of Euro 708,593.33 (Seven Hundred and Eight Thousand, Five Hundred and Ninety Three Euros, Thirty-Three Cent only).

Be informed that payments began since on 4th January 2008 and will end on the 29th of February 2008;

Therefore, we advise you to submit your application to our Registered Claim Agent, who will assist you to process and facilitate your winnings on your behalf with the below details:

Assurance Security & Consultant
Madrid-Spain.
Contact Name: Mr.Desmond Diaz Sanchez
Telephone Number:+34-693-378-086
Email: assurancefirm@aim.com or assurancesec@aim.com

We wish to congratulate you over your winning as we also pray that you will contribute in making the world a peaceful place for human race.

Yours truly,
Don Sergio Raul Gonzalez
(Programme Director)

Microsoft International Lottery Spams

Have you received such email scam from Microsoft International Lottery Headquarter?

If you have received such email confirm that here through the comment link.

A coincidence can work sometime to expose those who are using big companies' lotto tickets to spam other people. Take for example the following two lotto promotional tickets claimed to be from Microsoft and Google. They dropped into my box together although the second supposed to be in yesterday.

Note that the person who has signed the Google Lottery was barrister Jones, the same person who sends thousands of email swindles asking for your bank account numbers to deliver some millions of dollars to your account.

MICROSOFT INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
61-70 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury,
LONDON, United Kingdom, WC1B 4AR.
REF NO: MSW-L/200-26937
BATCH: 2005MJL-01

Dear Winner,

We happily announce to you the draw (Draw #1202) of the MSW LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International Program held on 12 JAN 2008. your email has emerged as one of the winning email accounts in the just concluded Microsoft Lottery Draw. Prize attached is 250,000 Pounds. Draw number is Draw #1202. You are required to send your personal information as requested for below:

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent via email.
MR.ASHLEY BAKER
E-m@il:contactclaimsdept1961@yahoo.com.hk

Provide him with the following information to claim your prize.

Name:
Address:
Occupation :
Sex:Age:
Nationality:
Country of residence:
Telephone number:
BATCH NUMBER:
REFERENCE Nº:

Yours Truly,
MRS.PATRICIA LAWRENCE
LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR/ANNOUNCER.

MICROSOFT GROUP UNITED KINGDOM

The headline or the subject line of this email spam says it all. It continues its scam this way:

Dear Lucky Winner,

The prestigious Microsoft and Aol Group has set out and sucessfully organised a Sweepstakes marking the end of year anniversary. We rolled out over £100,000.000.00 (One Hundred Million Great Britain Pounds) for our end of year Anniversary Draws. Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their BETA patronage attaching personalised email addresses to
ticket numbers.

Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number 0098876 with serial numbers MSL099876 and drew the lucky numbers 9-21-17-39-23-13(20) which subsequently won you £1,000,000.00 (One Million Great Britain Pounds) as one of the 10 jackpot winners in this draw held 10th April2007 and results released today 11th May,2007.

To file for your claim kindly Contact your fiduciary agent with the email address below:

Mr. Cole Adams
Microsoft Award Team Award.
Email: claimsagent_coleadams09 at yahoo dot co.uk

Fill This Form
FULL NAME.................................
WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS............
FULL ADDRESS:...............
SEX:......................
AGE.................
OCCUPATION...........
TEL................
COUNTRY.........

Sincerely,
Mr.Richard Lenox
Head Customercare Service
Microsoft Award Team

Micrsoft and AOL Spam

This email spam is not even professional. I don't think the recipient could simply be deceived by it. Any recipient will get doubts about it as the spammer wrote AOL all in small letters. He forgot also to paragraph his email. The entire email spam with its signature file is all set with no line breaks. The spammer is absolutely one of those few people who believe that they could deceive others because others are not clever like them. This is a bad feeling and a bad habit.

I'll break those lines for him or her here:

The prestigious Micrsoft and aol has set out and sucessfully organised a Sweepstakes marking the new year 2007 anniversary we rolled out over 5,000.000.00 Pounds (Five million Great Britain Pounds) for our end of year Anniversary Draws.

Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage.

Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number 008795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/06 and drew the lucky numbers 14-21-25-39-40-47(20) You have therefore won the entire winning sum of 500,000.00 Pounds (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds).

To file for your claim Please Contact your fiduciary agent:

Mr George Simmons
Microsoft Promotion Award Team
Email: george . simmon @ yahoo . com
Email: microsoftpromo @ microsoftpromo. cjb. net
Phone : +44-702-408-2713

You are advised to contact your fiduciary agent with the following details to avoid unnecessary delays and complications:

Your Full Names
Country
Ticket Numbers
Batch Number
Serial Number
Lucky Numbers as indicated in this winning Notification and
Phone numbers.

Thank you for being part of this promotional award program.

Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates.

We wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune.

Thank you for being part of our commemorative new year Anniversary Draws.

Sincerely,

Mr. Nicky Oswards.
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Well I don't know how could a Microsoft Promotion Award Team get an email address at Yahoo and other unknow Microsoft emails but not at his Microsoft primary address!

This is why I am feeling sorry for those spammers.
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Microsoft Award Team Spam

I know the following email spam was not from Microsoft. But those who are using this promotion should stop using its name to fool people.

The message goes:

Microsoft Award Team
20 Craven Park, Harlesden
London NW10
United Kingdom
Ref: BTD/968/05
Batch: 409978E

Dear Sir/Madam,

WINNING NOTIFICATION

The prestigious Micrsoft and Aol has set out and successfully organised a Sweepstakes marking the end of year anniversary and we have rolled out over £25,000,000.00(Twenty-five Million Great British Pounds) for the end of year Anniversary Draws.

Participants for this draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage.

The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching personalised email addresses to ticket numbers, if you ignore this, you will regret it later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AO L ar! e running an e-mail data test.

Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number 008795727498 with serial numbers BTD/anumbers are here/06 and drew the lucky numbers (00-00-00-00-00-00(20) which subsequently won you £1,000,000,00. (One million Great British Pounds) already issued in a cheque as one of the 10 jackpot winners in this draw.

You have therefore won the entire winning sum of £1,000,000,00 (One million Great British Pounds). The draws registered as Draw number one was conducted in Brockley, London United Kingdom.

These Draws are commemorative and as such special. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our British booklet representative in England as indicated in your play coupon, In view of this, your £1,000,000,00 (One million Great British Pounds) cheque would be released to you by our Fiduciary Agent in England, Our Fiduciary agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the relea se of your cheque as ! soon! ! as you c ontact him.

Make contact with your designated agent who shall by duty guide you through the process to facilitate the release of your winning cheque. To file for your claim, Please Contact your fiduciary agent with the details below:

Mr Ahsley Richard
Microsoft Promotion Award Team
Email: fiduciary_richard_claimsagent @ yahoo . com
Tel: +44-702-406-3745

You are advised to contact your Fiduciary Agent with the following details to avoid unnecessary delays and complications with your

Name (in Full):
Country:
Address:
Direct Telephone No.:
Age:
Sex:
Occupation/position
Ticket Number:
Serial Number:
Amount Won:

Thank you for being part of this promotional award program. Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates. We wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune.

Sincerely,
Mr.Lars Jerry
Microsoft Promotion Team

NB:
PLEASE NOTE! Any claim not made before (10) working days from date of notification will indicate that the winner has voluntarily forfeited his/her winnings.
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Waiting for comments, even from those who are sending such email spams out.