2024-02-29 22:35:30
Scammers are trying to trick you into believing that malicious messages are being posted in your name on Facebook. Taken by the fear of losing loved ones/friends, the victim risks falling into the trap.
Scammers are doubling their imagination to achieve their goals and do not hesitate to play on the heartstrings to trap their victims. As such, a scam is currently trying to make Facebook users believe that certain malicious people are trying to sabotage your relationships with your friends/relatives.
Indeed, we can currently find people on Facebook who copy and paste a specific message. Here is the message in question.
Through this copy-pasted message, we learn that there would be “ a new Facebook hack that puts a hurtful phrase under your contacts’ comments “. Of course, this message does not reflect any reality. Furthermore, copying and pasting this message does not represent a danger in itself. It is during the second phase of the scam that the danger arises.
To fully understand the mechanism of this scam, let’s look at two sentences from the copied and pasted text. On the one hand, the malicious messages which are supposedly posted in the name of the victim would not be visible to the victim: “ You don’t see it, but your contacts do “. The victim would therefore have no way of perceiving these messages intended to sabotage their relationships.
On the other hand, this copy-pasted message contains a request: “ I would love for you to let me know if this happens! “. Through this copied and pasted message, the user therefore launches a call for help.
And this is where the second phase of the scam takes place. The scammer will respond to the “cry for help” contained in the copied and pasted message by warning his victim, by private message, that so-called malicious messages have been posted in his name. To do this, the scammer will pretend to be a good Samaritan or impersonate one of your loved ones. The scammer can also pose as a Facebook moderator and make their victim believe that their account is at risk of being deleted. As a reminder, the victim would have no way of noticing these malicious messages.
A scammer pretending to be a Facebook moderator
In short, the scammer makes his victim believe that the warning message that he copied and pasted has come true.
Last step of the scam: the scammer will send a link to his victim while assuring him that it is possible to restore the situation and delete the malicious messages. Taken by the fear of losing loved ones, the victim will then be tempted to click on the link. But, in reality, this link leads to a false Facebook login page. The victim will then enter their username and password on this fake Facebook page which will save them. Ultimately, the scammer will be able to take over the victim’s account.
Note that this scam has been circulating on Facebook for several years now.
Anyway, remember that it is better not to copy and paste messages on Facebook. Every year, users are invited to copy and paste messages that would keep their Facebook account free or preserve their personal data. These messages have no legal value and are therefore of no use. And, as we have just seen, copying and pasting messages on Facebook can also lead to real data theft.
Furthermore, we must always be wary of messages that play on our fears and urgency. If someone contacts you regarding a malicious message you posted, call the person directly. Finally, do not take at face value a message that supposedly warns of any drama.
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