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  • Fake Facebook businesses lure 5k honest businesses for data & credentials

    From Fritz Wuehler@fritz@spamexpire-202511.rodent.frell.theremailer.net to misc.consumers,alt.privacy on Mon Nov 17 00:10:16 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.privacy

    More than 5,000 businesses that use Facebook for advertising were
    bombarded by tens of thousands of phishing emails in a credential- and data-stealing campaign.

    Check Point researchers say that they spotted about 40,000 phishing
    emails sent to their customers across the US, Europe, Canada, and
    Australia - and they were sent from the legitimate facebookmail.com
    domain.

    While most organizations received fewer than 300 messages, one company
    alone was hit with more than 4,200.

    To pull off this phishing expedition, the criminals created shell
    Facebook Business pages representing businesses that don't exist, and
    then used the Business invitation feature to send phishing emails that
    look like the real deal.

    More here: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/5k_facebook_advertising_customer s_phishing/

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  • From Nathan Smith@nathansmith@posteo.com to misc.consumers,alt.privacy on Sun Nov 16 21:28:35 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.privacy

    Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-202511.rodent.frell.theremailer.net>
    writes:

    More than 5,000 businesses that use Facebook for advertising were
    bombarded by tens of thousands of phishing emails in a credential- and data-stealing campaign.

    Check Point researchers say that they spotted about 40,000 phishing
    emails sent to their customers across the US, Europe, Canada, and
    Australia - and they were sent from the legitimate facebookmail.com
    domain.

    While most organizations received fewer than 300 messages, one company
    alone was hit with more than 4,200.

    To pull off this phishing expedition, the criminals created shell
    Facebook Business pages representing businesses that don't exist, and
    then used the Business invitation feature to send phishing emails that
    look like the real deal.

    More here: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/5k_facebook_advertising_customer s_phishing/

    Fake Facebook seems to take after his big brother real Facebook. Real
    Facebook steals data from billions instead of a petty thousands.
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