Facebook 'photo virus' spreads via email

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Facebook 'photo virus' spreads via email

Posted by Telegraph (#9978) 310 days ago (http://www.telegraph.co.uk)

The emails look exactly like Facebook’s own messages which are sent to a user’s personal email accounts when they are tagged in a photo.
However, instead of the links in the emails leading to the referenced photo, they redirect the victim of the spam campaign to a site which tries to infect the person’s computer with malicious software. A few seconds later the link will redirect the user one more time to Facebook.com.

Read full story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/9411069/Facebook-photo-virus-spreads-via-email.html

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