“Your messages will be deleted soon” – Facebook spam

Posted By: Sorin Mustaca October 8, 2014

It seems that the most research on social engineering is done these days by spammers.

Using the text “You haven’t been to Facebook for a few days, and a lot happened while you were away”, the spam message contains the trigger which will make many people click on the message:

“Your messages will be deleted soon”

Ohhhh, so, if you don’t click on “View messages” then the messages will be deleted?.

This is a good one.

To all those who really think that something like this is possible: Stay calm, nobody is ever going to delete your messages.

And, Facebook is not sending you such messages anyway.

It is just a spam that redirects you to an online pharmacy store.

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Sorin Mustaca

Sorin Mustaca, (ISC)2 CSSLP, CompTIA Security+ and Project+, is working since over 20 years in the IT Security industry and worked between 2003-2014 for Avira as Product Manager for the known products used by over 100 million users world-wide. Today he is CEO and owner of Endpoint Cybersecurity GmbH focusing on Cybersecurity, secure software development and security for IoT and Automotive. He is also running his personal blog Sorin Mustaca on Cybersecurity and is the author of the free eBook Improve your security .