Facebook Account Cancellation Request Malicious Emails

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Posted: January 31, 2013 2013-01-31T12:44:40
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If you receive any Facebook account cancellation request e-mail messages, please do not click on any of the links in these messages. These fake e-mail messages are malicious and if you click on any of the links in them, you will be taken to a malicious website that will infect your computer with malware.

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The Malicious Email: Facebook Account Cancellation Request

Hi

We are sending you this email to inform you that we have received an account cancellation request from you.
Please follow the link below to confirm or cancel this request

Thanks,
The Facebook Team

To confirm or cancel this request, follow the link below:
click here

Facebook will never send you an account cancellation request via e-mail. If you want to deactivate your Facebook account, please click on or go to, the following link:

https://www.facebook.com/deactivate.php

Facebook states that:

"Deactivating your account will disable your profile and remove your name and picture from most things you've shared on Facebook. Some information may still be visible to others, such as your name in their friends list and messages you sent."

Note: Some of the names, addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers in email samples on this website may have been impersonated.

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Feb 9, 2013 at 7:30 AM by info
If your account was hijacked or hacked, please go to Facebook hacked account help section. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/help/131719720300233" target="_blank">Click here to go there</a>.
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Feb 9, 2013 at 2:19 AM by an anonymous user from Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
My account is hijacked because when I use my details to log in it gives me someone's names
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