So my facebook account got phished, To the useless end of telling unsuspecting facebook members that they should download ringtones from the website I use.
Of course now I am receiving no end of messages from people helpfully informing me of this (about half my facebook friends list got pm’d before the facebook security feature shut it down). It’s times like this that you realise who the more savvy of your friends are, most people reply with warranted sarcasm or a simple pointing out of the fact that you have been hacked but you do get some people who go with things like:
“No ads to my facebook please”
“But I didn’t ask you anything”
“Long time no see, I’ll check it out. Thanks!”
The latter message dishearteningly disproving my theory that these people who phish for ID’s are wasting their time as no one will buy such a ludicrous scam. At least it was almost worth the privacy intrusion just to read some of these responses.
However it is shades of Myspace all over again. Seldom did a week go by without someone getting phished and me receiving hundreds of messages about ringtones or porn. Why are these the top two offenders? These strike me as commodities that one would never actually pay for as they are available in abundance for free to those who know how to search for them. But then I guess everything on the internet is free.
Ultimately, I am left with the conundrum of HOW they got my password. I haven’t used facebook since thursday to my knowledge, yet it suddenly gets hacked on Sunday night? Best guess is it either took them a few days to get around to it or I signed up for a ludicrous application at some point along the line and my details got passed on. It’s a lesson folks, and another notch on Facebooks bedpost of evil.
