Fake Facebook Notifications

Started by Rayce, July 04, 2014, 05:33:37 PM

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(I don't know whether this is appropriate for this forum or not, if it is, I'm sorry. I'll let you delete it.)
So, some of you probably know of those spam E-mails from "Adriana". (If you don't, they're facebook notifications from a fake user, usually trying to "date" you.)  The thing is, though, I don't have a facebook account, nor have I ever. Does this mean someone used my e-mail for their account? Or does EVERYONE get these?

What are you doing here? You could be dating hot singles in your area! /s

If they used your email to create a facebook account you would have gotten the activation email. Its just spam, I would ignore it.

I'm a bit young for that. And yes I know it's spam, because it's just the same messages over and over. But since they're all automatically sent to my spam folder, I just ignore them, i was just curious as to whether it was a spambot on facebook or a spambot pretending to be facebook. Apparently it's the latter.

Mods, the issue is resolved. You may close this if you wish.


Just remember, its very easy to get a massive list of random email adresses on the internet.

I got an E-mail the other day from Gmail that asked me to click a link to show I had received it. It looked completely official and didn't get flagged as spam but when I looked at the address is wasn't quite right so it was lucky I didn't just click and get a virus.
Scams are getting better all the time and I use my business address so it get's full of spam from people in random countries asking to buy my products. They just need my card details...   :dry:
My favourite one started with 'Dear Sirs, I am an honest family man...'

I play less now but I'll always be around, lets keep this site and battlefront going. :)

Can't say I've received any of that spam. I do have a Facebook, however I'm maybe on it once a month/2 months?

If anyone's going to send spam to my Facebook, I probably won't touch it until the next time I get on it. And even then, I'l find out real fast.