Suspicious and inappropriate content on Facebook. Have you received such an email? Be careful

Every day we hear about new scams, but the pattern of operation of cybercriminals remains almost the same. Most often, fraudsters use phishing, a method of impersonating a trusted company or institution.

CERT Polska warns against fraud. They impersonate Facebook

Now, as CERT Polska warns on the X portal, cybercriminals are impersonating the Meta conglomerate, the owner of Facebook. In e-mails sent to Poles, they inform about the alleged detection of “violation of community standards” in advertisements published on Mark Zuckerberg’s website. This content, according to scammers, is said to be “suspicious” or “misleading” and “inappropriate.”

Fraudsters threaten to block your account and suspend existing ads. Therefore, this is an attack aimed primarily at people or companies running their own fan page on Facebook. The only way to save yourself is to enter the link, which, of course, was attached in the content of the e-mail. This leads to a page prepared by cybercriminals that extorts Facebook login details.

Fortunately, the scam was prepared carelessly and you can tell at first glance that we are not dealing with an e-mail from the administration of a social networking site. This is suggested by the sender’s address (in the outlook.com domain), the address of a fake website that is not even similar to the Facebook domain, and a carelessly prepared message. “We hope that this message has reached you in good health,” the scammers write at the beginning.

However, this is not the only scam attempt that CERT Polska is warning against this week. In another scam, cybercriminals impersonate the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime. In the e-mail messages (this time coming from accounts registered in Gmail) they send a forged “summons to appear in court”. Interestingly, the message was titled “important reading.”

Specialists from CERT Polska remind that CBZC does not contact citizens in criminal matters in this way. The aim of this phishing attack is, of course, to extort money from people who fall for it.