Recently, users of the social media have reported the circulation of a message on Messenger from Facebook, which tries to attract your attention with phrases that relate you to a video, supposedly published. If it reaches you, be careful because it is a hoax.
‘Are you the one in the video?’, ‘Why were you tagged in this video?’, ‘Have you seen yourself in this video?’ Are just some of the hooks that fake accounts use to attract your attention and achieve what do you give click in a link attached to the message.
However, opening it will only take you to a page similar to the home page of Facebook so that you provide your personal data such as name or username and password.
Don’t be fooled by this message | Photo: Unsplash
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According to the alert issued by the community of Facebook, just open the message so that it can access your contacts, it can even be forwarded from your profile Messenger.
What’s more, This message seems as if it had been sent to you from the account of one of your friends on the social network but, in reality it is an attempt to obtain personal data.
Users who have received this message have alerted the community through social networks to prevent these fraudsters from succeeding. Like the phone scams, this modus operandi has ways of being avoided.
How to avoid being a victim of the dangerous message
Telephonies, users of social networks and his own Facebook They have issued a series of recommendations to avoid being a victim of this type of cyber scam.
The first and most important is, immediately delete any message that may contain a link or multimedia file of which the sender is not known.
What’s more, not provide any personal information or related to social media accounts on any official platform or device other than everyday use.
Have you received a suspicious message asking for your personal information? Be careful, this could be phishing ????️
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— SocialTIC (@socialtic) December 22, 2020
And, as a third option, they also indicate that it is important to constantly change passwords for social networks to prevent third parties from accessing the personal information of users.
The use of social networks carries a responsibility as it is a channel in which frauds or illegal operations can be commented, such as the child prostitution network which was recently discovered on these digital channels.
Likewise, the community has reacted to this alert by sharing the information through their profiles and in groups on various social networks. Well, apparently, this technique had already been used on previous occasions for the same purpose or to spread viruses.
It is possible that in recent weeks you have received a message from one of your Facebook friends through their chat application, Messenger, in which a video with a profile photo and your name followed by a suspicious “lookaaaaaa”. It’s about u … https://t.co/0v4urqFTTW pic.twitter.com/X7a0oWn3qA
– Ramon Rodriguez ???????? (@cyber_reloj) February 15, 2018
In order not to fall for these deceptions, any type of message with links that link personal content with publications in other should be eliminated immediately. social media.
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