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Scam Alert: Facebook “Blocked Account” Email

Scam Alert: Facebook “Blocked Account” Email

Did you receive an email from Facebook telling you that your account has been blocked due to suspicious activity, with a link to reactivate your account? It’s not from Facebook and you shouldn’t click the link!

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We have posted a screenshot of the email we received, with identifying info blacked out. The email itself read:

Your account has been blocked due to suspicious activity.

To activate account, please follow this link:
(LINK INCLUDED)

You may be asked to enter this confirmation code: (CODE)

The Facebook Team

How do we know it’s not from Facebook?

  • The return address was actually from FB.Team wtih an email address of [email protected]. Yes, that email is from Switzerland, and to our knowledge, Facebook does not send out emails identifying themselves as “FB.Team.”
  • Even though the link included displays a Facebook.com address, when you mouse over the link you’ll find that it actually goes to “newdatingafter2013.info”
  • We couldn’t get the included link to work at all.

 

Usually with scam emails like this, you’ll be sent to a fake Facebook page in which they’ll ask you to log in, upon which time you will have just given them your login info. Because we couldn’t get this link to work, we’re not sure if that’s the case here or not.

Either way, it’s not a good idea to click a link that claims to be from Facebook when it’s actually from someone else.

Do you have any additional info on this email? Leave us a comment below.

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