Facebook Chat Scam - You Didn't See the Horrible Vids of U

The scammers convince the recipients into clicking on the malicious link by claiming there is a horrible video of the recipients, and the recipients can view the video by clicking on the malicious link. But, there is no video.

The Facebook Chat Conversion Scam

Friend: ? omg tell me your there.

You: Hi ?. What's up?

Friend: you didn't see the horrible vids of u?

You: Nope. What are you talking about?

Friend: well here http://?.fbcrazys.com

The "?" in the message above, represents the Facebook user's name

Now, the link in the chat message will take the recipients to the malicious and fake Facebook website: www.fbcrazys.com.

If the recipients enter their Facebook username and password on the fake Facebook website, it will be sent to the scammers behind this fake message. Once the scammers receive their victims' username and password, they will use it to access their Facebook accounts and send the same malicious message to their Facebook friends.

This way, the message will appear as if it came from the victims, and the victims' friends will not hesitate to click on the malicious link, because the message appeared as if it was sent by their friends.

Also, the link may redirect the recipients to malicious Facebook applications that will ask them to grant permission or access to their accounts. If recipients do, the malicious Facebook applications will send the same message or malicious links to all of their Facebook friends.

If you were tricked by the malicious Facebook chat message, or think you were, please follow the instructions below:

• click here to change your Facebook password
• click here to remove malicious Facebook applications from your account
• click here to remove malware from your computer

If you are taken to a website, which looks like www.facebook.com, and ask to sign in with your user name and password, please look at your web browser's address bar and ensure that it says: "www.facebook.com".

If you look at the image above, you will notice that the website address is 329233.fbcrazys.com, and not www.facebook.com, although the web page looks like Facebook sign-in page.

This is only way that you can tell if you are on the legitimate Facebook website, and not some fake, created to steal your Facebook user name and password, which will be used to hijack your account and use it for illegal purposes.

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Note: Some of the information in samples on this website may have been impersonated or spoofed.