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Internet users have been warned about a new phishing<\/a> scam doing the rounds in the world of social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

David Jacoby, of IT security firm Kaspersky Lab, claims scammers are posing as Facebook security in chat sessions to try to trick people into providing their credit card information.<\/p>\n

He said the phishing attack is “pretty interesting” because it does not try to trick users into visiting a phishing website – it uses stolen information to take over user’s accounts and imitate security operations.<\/p>\n

Once an account has been compromised, fraudsters can send out instant messages to the victim’s contacts pretending to be Facebook security, Mr. Jacoby explained.<\/p>\n

Users are asked to reconfirm their web addresses by providing name, email, password, security question, email account password, country and birth date details.<\/p>\n

They are then transferred to a payment verification page which asks for a full credit card number, expiration date, security code and billing address.<\/p>\n

A Facebook spokesman said the company was looking into the report, and protecting website users from spam and malicious content remains a “top priority”.<\/p>\n

“We have spent several years developing protections to stop spam from spreading and have sought to cooperate with other industry leaders to keep users and their data safe,” they stated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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