Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
If you receive any of the notifications below claiming to be from Facebook, do not click on any of the links or buttons in them. The e-mail messages are not from Facebook.com although they may appear to. The links or buttons will take you to a malicious website which will infect your computer with a malicious program called a Trojan horse. A cybercriminal can use a Trojan to spy on you and take control of your computer remotely.
The emails have the following subjects and text:
The link in the e-mail message will take you to this website address hxxp:// 163.30.187.1/, on the web page "~wh610/anticipations.html?uid=", where the Trojan horse is located.
If you want to know where a link will take you, do the following:
If you receive any Facebook notification, you can safely go to Facebook.com and view them from there, instead of, clicking the links in these e-mail messages.
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