Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
Facebook users who have received emails like the one below, which claim their passwords were recently reset are asked not to click on the link in them. This is because the fake emails are phishing scams being sent by cybercriminals who are attempting to steal their potential victims' Facebook account credentials. Therefore, Facebook users who have been tricked by the fake and phishing emails are asked to change their password immediately before their accounts are hijacked and used fraudulently.
From: Facebook <admin@Outlook.com>Sent: Sun, Sep 29, 2019 8:30 amSubject: Facebook password resetfacebookHi,Your Facebook password was reset using the email address [] on Sunday, september 29, 2019 at 5:24pm (MDT).Operating system: Mac OS XBrowser: ChromeIP address: 97.123.28.2Estimated location: Albuquerque, NEW MEXICO, USIf you did this, you can safely disregard this email.If you didn't do this, please secure your account, By sending this code:26556 . From here.Thanks,
From: Facebook <admin@Outlook.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 29, 2019 8:30 am
Subject: Facebook password reset
facebook
Hi,
Your Facebook password was reset using the email address [] on Sunday, september 29, 2019 at 5:24pm (MDT).
Operating system: Mac OS X
Browser: Chrome
IP address: 97.123.28.2
Estimated location: Albuquerque, NEW MEXICO, US
If you did this, you can safely disregard this email.
If you didn't do this, please secure your account, By sending this code:26556 . From here.
Thanks,
Facebook users whose account have already been hijacked, can click here for help.
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I canceled my facebook account officially back in about 2005. I still got a message, LOL.
Thanks for clearing this up. I have received 18 of these emails, sometimes 3 in a day a minute apart
I just received same notice, contacted my tech guy immediately but decided NOT to click on the link - I'm so glad I didn't because it's a scam and I would have opened my site to hackers. It's the exact notice as the one above. Gabrielle L.
"-Original Message- From: Facebook Sent: Tue, Jan 21, 2020 11:09 am Subject: Facebook password reset facebook Hi, Your Facebook password was reset using the email address on Tue, jan 21, 2020 at 5:24pm (MDT). Operating system: Mac OS X Browser: Chrome IP address: 97.123.28.2 Estimated location: Albuquerque, NEW MEXICO, US If you did this, you can safely disregard this email. If you didn't do this, please secure your account, By sending this code:26556 . From here. Thanks, The Facebook Security Team" Here is another scam.
I also got this very e-mail!And stupid me...I clicked on the "from here". Nothing happened- it took me nowhere. Then my email account started to get 20 spam every day.Has been about 3 days and they have been slowing down.I will go change my facebook password NOW and NEVER again click on these notices!THANKS for letting people know!
I was hacked and now being harrassed by Russian s*x sites and multiple various yahoo and gmail users. My gmail account is over burdened with spam and it's going to force legal action on my part.
Here is another scam -Original Message- From: Facebook Sent: Thu, Oct 3, 2019 9:48 am Subject: Facebook password reset facebook Hi, Your Facebook password was reset using the email address [] on Thursday, october 03, 2019 at 5:24pm (MDT). Operating system: Mac OS X Browser: Chrome IP address: 97.123.28.2 Estimated location: Albuquerque, NEW MEXICO, US If you did this, you can safely disregard this email. If you didn't do this, please secure your account, By sending this code:26556 . From here. Thanks, The Facebook Security Team
NEVER click on a link in an email telling you there's something wrong with one of your accounts, whether it be social media, email, banking/credit card, Etsy / eBay, or wherever. Go directly to the site under your own power and check things out. You probably should change your password while you're there just to be safe, but do it after you log in, NOT from a link in an email.
