"Verify your account" Scammers Use New Trick to Mimic Legit Facebook Links
This is a new kind of scam spreading on facebook. Scammers are managing to spread scams on Facebook by using a new trick to make malicious links appear as if they are part of the website's normal user interface.
In this scam there is a message "Please do your part in PREVENTING SPAM by VERIFYING YOUR ACCOUNT. Click VERIFY MY ACCOUNT right next to the comment below to begin the verification process," Under the message, where the "Like", "Comment" and "Share" links are usually located, there's a link reading "==VERIFY MY ACCOUNT==" using the same styling as the legit ones. On clicking the verifiy link executes the code from external domain which repost the message on users wall automatically.
please do not click any this kind of links to verify your account. If facebook wants any kind of verification from you, it wouldn't spread this kind of status updates. it would show you verification message just after login and before redirecting to home page. As it usually do in case of adding another email account. Never trust any kind of links spreading like this scams.
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