Dodgy email from Facebook.

hoyles10

I have just received a message on facebook that's clearly a scam. I have heard warnings about it but haven't actually seen one before. I thought I would post it in case there's any facebook users who haven't seen it..... It reads:

Your account will be deactivated immediately.Because someone has reported your actions.Maybe you have written content that is abusiveOr upload a picture that can be insulting or harmful to other users.You must confirm your account, to stop the warning deactivated on your account.Please re-confirm your account at:

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If within 24 hours you do not visit our link, then we consider that the report is true, and as our punishment of security facebook will block your account permanently.

Please verify your account within 24 hours, if you ignore then we will block this account for your security.

Please verify your account here:

for cancellation of your account blocking

Thanks for Helping to improv our services.


http://www.facebook.com/security
Facebook Inc. ™ Team
Copyright 2011 up © All rights reserved.
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hoyles10

And another one within 5 minutes:

Your account has been reported by other users. he says that you have done things that have violated regulations in the use of facebook. that causes disturbed / threatened other individuals, such as:

1. Your use excessive application.
2. Identity fraud on your account.
3. You write content that is not fun (ROUGH).
4. Using images to interfere with other users or offensive.
5. Perform actions that disrupt or insult other users
6. Pornografi or nudity.
7. Fake profil

If this is a mistake, We hope you will soon change.
However, If you promise not to do things that violate the provisions of service for the second time, our team still forgive your mistakes.
if in 2x24 hours after you receive information from us.
and you do not immediately confirm the account,
then your account will be disabled automatically by our security team. wiht assuming an indication it's true.

click the link below to cancel your account deactivation:

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If within 24 hours after you receive this information from us and you do not confirm, your account is automatically deactivated permanently.

Thank you for participating in the security services facebook
http://www.facebook.com/security
copyright © 2010 Facebook, inc.. All right reserved.
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gordikin

hoyles10 wrote: »

I have just received a message on facebook that's clearly a scam. I have heard warnings about it but haven't actually seen one before. I thought I would post it in case there's any facebook users who haven't seen it..... It reads:

Your account will be deactivated immediately.Because someone has reported your actions.Maybe you have written content that is abusiveOr upload a picture that can be insulting or harmful to other users.You must confirm your account, to stop the warning deactivated on your account.Please re-confirm your account at:

◊▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬◊
A Link Appears Here.
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If within 24 hours you do not visit our link, then we consider that the report is true, and as our punishment of security facebook will block your account permanently.

Please verify your account within 24 hours, if you ignore then we will block this account for your security.

Please verify your account here:

for cancellation of your account blocking

Thanks for Helping to improv our services.


http://www.facebook.com/security
Facebook Inc. ™ Team
Copyright 2011 up © All rights reserved.
Terms of Use. Privacy Policy
1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 9430
All rights reserved
phone: (650.543.4800) fax: (650.543.4801)

It's an obvious scam.

sirmarcus

Thanks gordis I bet nobody else would have worked that out !

johnnyboyrebel

sirmarcus wrote: »

Thanks gordis I bet nobody else would have worked that out !

Just what i was thinking. The grammar was too good.

Freddie_Snowbits

No, these emails are pertfecvtly ok, I send thousands every hour from my infected PC. In fact, how do my Arm, friends in Nigeria make a killing if all you lot do is ignore them.

Here, have my bank details as well if you want to donate monies to me. Click Here for my Bank Details

fluffnutter

Have you copied and pasted this hoyles? Because the grammar, wording etc. is appalling! Mind you, so is most people's who use facebook so perhaps they wouldn't notice....

ronny_todgers

That's a scam but the scary ones from facebook are where you get an email from one of your contacts saying they have been mugged and lost their phone ( story goes they are in an internet cafe ) while in some foreign city. Can you please send them some cash. This happens when someone gets their password and I've had about 3 like this - luckily no one got mugged!

hoyles10

fluffnutter wrote: »

Have you copied and pasted this hoyles? Because the grammar, wording etc. is appalling! Mind you, so is most people's who use facebook so perhaps they wouldn't notice....

No I thought i'd type it out word by word

The spelling is awful but then again most of the things I see on facebook are normally a mixture of letters and numbers which takes me ages to work out what people are saying. I've just about got the grasp of M8

Unintentional

Just ignore it. If Facebook wanted to ban your account they would just do it without any warning.

geordieracer

I posted this a while back about facebook

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3157940